I was listening to a podcast recently about change and how we need to teach ourselves (and others) to imagine what change looks like to help us cope with it – the problem is as we get older, the world, and our own self-doubt impacts what we believe we can do. When we stop believing, we stop imagining.

What we have to do as practitioners and deliverers of change is help open ours and others minds to the change and the possibilities that could mean. But how can we do this?

By ensuring as we deliver change we tell a story of what it will mean to those impacted and tell it in a way that opens people’s minds to what it will look like. Creating that vivid picture will enable more surety in the future and lessen the anger or anxiety with what is to come. What we need to do is to take this seriously as part of what we do rather than feel the constant rush to deliver – if we can’t open peoples minds and create the right picture the speed of delivery will not matter.