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Perspectives of Change

Sarika Kharbandaperspectivesofchange.com

Sometimes we forget that our perspective as change agents is just one of many. Perspectives of Change show is dedicated to exploring how to nudge change forward by understanding and valuing multiple perspectives. 

This show is hosted by Sarika Kharbanda. We explore lean, agile, change management, business agility topics from a variety of perspectives.

Episodes

#28 Cut through the noise, bring your change to life

How you can cut through all the noise in your workplace by visualising your change initiative? Which would you rather look at - a cartoon summarising your change initiative or slabs of text? A picture paints a thousand words so why not bring your change to life and paint your strategy for all to see? Subscribe to YouTube channel

Jul 25, 202131 min

About Perspectives of Change

It's our 3 year anniversary of Perspectives of Change! Here's a short clip that describes why we changed from the Modern Change Podcast to Perspectives of Change and a few stories about the format! Subscribe to YouTube channel

Jul 21, 202110 min

#27 The road to agile is agile: who dares to take the lead

No matter where and how you start, 1 thing will lead to the other. Agile will affect the way of working, the structure, the way we manage teams and communicate with each other, the way information flows through the organisation, the way we are leading and directing the organisation! So, the road to agile is agile: who dares to take the lead? Is it the agile coach, scrum master, OD expert or is HR brave enough to take a step forward? Subscribe to YouTube channel...

Jun 24, 202158 min

#25 HR is Our Business

#25 HR is Our Business by Sarika Kharbanda Subscribe to YouTube channel

Oct 12, 202059 min

#24 'Neurodiversity in the workplace' with Sonsoles Alonso 30 July 2020

The momentum for rich and impactful D&I conversation is gathering speed.But most efforts seem to concentrate around gender & race.The D&I conversation needs to expand to include different styles of thinking & perceiving. You need to ensure that you are leveraging abilities of those employees who can naturally help you thrive in the VUCA. Subscribe to YouTube channel

Aug 04, 20201 hr 8 min

#18 Why Perspectives Of Change

Sometimes we forget that our perspective as change agents is one of many. This show is dedicated to exploring how to nudge change forward by understanding and valuing multiple perspectives. Subscribe to YouTube channel

Feb 05, 201914 min

#17 - Lean Change Professional with Joao Gama

Joao and I sit down to chat about the new Lean Change Professional workshop, what's similar and different between it and the original Lean Change Agent, how it came to be and who it's for. Subscribe to YouTube channel

Jan 08, 201843 min

#9 Society’s Effect on Organizational Change

10 years ago you’d be laughed out of the building if you used words like love and vulnerability in the boardroom. Today, there seems to be a trend towards stripping away the noise as leaders understand that meaningful change isn’t going to happen through the $4 million worth of buzzword-filled documents that big consulting firms like to deliver.From the ineffectiveness of the carrot and stick method, to the effect that societal change has on our organizations, Paul Gibbons, who helped launch the...

Sep 13, 201748 min

#5 - The Great Culture Debate Rebuttal

In this episode, Mathias Gorf, Patrick Verdonk and Peter Rubarth debate the points raised by Eric and I during Episode 4:- the concept of getting people to ‘buy in’ to your change- intentionally changing, and measuring culture- how to preserve your existing culture during growth- whether ‘chief culture officers’ are a good idea or not Subscribe to YouTube channel

Sep 13, 201736 min

#16 - Debugging Bureaucracy

In this podcast, we hand over the hosting reigns to Lean Change Facilitator Richard Atherton - one of the leaders of Lean Change in the UK. Richard first discovered Venkataraman on LinkedIn in 2016 and was attracted to his incisive writing on organisations. In this episode they explore: What do we mean by bureaucracy?How do we “debug bureaucracy”?What’s the meaning and value of “working out loud”?Venky and Richard recommend the following if you’d like to dive deeper on bureaucracy:David Graeber&...

Sep 13, 201744 min

#15 - Living Through a SAFe Rollout

Most of the stories we hear about agile transformation, or a rollout of , it’s from someone selling something, or from the consultants, or leaders who were responsible for the rollout itself. I haven’t seen very many (any?) stories from people who were employees of the organization who had to figure out how to work within the method when they didn’t really have a say in how and why it was brought in.This podcast features Ryan Latta, who was a developer on a team, and Sean Melody, who was a chief...

Mar 07, 201755 min

#14 - Meaningful Change at National Leasing

This week’s podcast, and video chat, closed the chapter of the book! Jill and I explore:how did you get started with your change canvases?how did people react to formalizing change management for the first time?how deep did you go while exploring who was affected?has IT change gotten easier because we’re used to software changing all the time?how did operational readiness happen?how did visualizing the change help?what outcomes did you get, and what were the lessons learned? Subscribe to YouTube...

Feb 28, 201735 min

#12 - Agile Change Management with Richard Atherton

Nowadays, the word agile has baggage. Despite the amount of information out there, some still think agile means no planning, no process, and no documents. If you feel you have an agile mindset, it can be extremely difficult to work with those who “don’t get it”. If you look at the 4 values and 12 principles, agile is simple, and it’s not about the methods, or frameworks, or certifications, it’s about how organizations can figure out more effective ways to manage work and people. Some organizatio...

Feb 22, 201733 min

#13 - Sociocracy with Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

We underestimate the importance of psychological safety, and meaningful conversations when it comes to running our organizations. In this episode, Jerry Koch-Gonzalez explains the 3 structures of sociocracy, why organizations are choosing it, how they’re getting stuck, and what’s getting them past those sticking points.Our topics include:- what is sociocracy, and what are the 3 structures of sociocracy?- why are organizations choosing sociocracy?1- do organizations see sociocracy as a process or...

Feb 15, 201742 min

#11 - Brains and Ears

There are more change frameworks out there than you can shake a stick at. We all have our favourites, but how necessary are they? We know change is hard, and we know the debates about why change fails have been circular over the last decade or perhaps longer. Yet here we are, inventing, and reinventing more frameworks, best practices, and standards in the hopes that will fix what isn’t working.What if we relied on our brains and ears instead of boxes on a PowerPoint? This week’s podcast features...

Feb 06, 201734 min

#10 - How Organizational Change Mimics Social Movements

In 2001, the Agile Manifesto was created and along with it, a movement for a better way to build software. Since then over 40 methods, tools, frameworks and more have been created as the software world learned that 4 values and 12 principles alone were not enough.16 years later, and some feel that we need to take Agile back from the bureaucratic organizations. For every movement, there is a counter-movement and this week’s podcast features Ryan Lockard of Agile Uprising. Our topics include:- how...

Jan 19, 201741 min

#8 - Letting Go of Control

I was fortunate to be interviewed by Ro Gorrell and Charlotte Mawle for their upcoming Change Ignition podcast. In this episode we talk about simple solutions for integrating change management and agile teams, as well as how letting go as a change agent helps you keep your sanity, and helps people realize you’re there to help, not to push change on them. Subscribe to YouTube channel

Nov 24, 201647 min

#7 - The Happy Melly Ecosystem with Elizabeth Plouffe

I was recently interviewed by Elizabeth Plouffe on her Across the Desk podcast. This is a re-broadcast of her podcast!In this episode we talk about the Happy Melly ecosystem is helping people understand the importance of workplace happiness, how we can focus on understanding what in our system is affected when we want to introduce change and more!We also talk about the upcoming Happy Melly Exploration Day which is the first in-person Happy Melly event worldwide!The Lean Change Management podcast...

Oct 12, 201630 min

#6 - Are Centralized Change Teams a Good Idea?

Topics I explore with Ty Crockett:- experiences working with centralized Agile transformation teams- is the ‘guiding coalition’ an outdated concept?- what alternatives exist?- how has Kotter’s 2nd step been mis-interpreted Subscribe to YouTube channel

Mar 07, 201638 min

#4 - The Great Organizational Culture Debate

In this episode, Eric Lynn, founder of Culture Q’s, and I discuss culture, including whether or not you can measure it and why the approach some companies take is the wrong way to do it.This episode was recorded at #DareFest in Belgium so I apologize for the audio as I didn’t have my studio mic with me!If you’re interested in being part of the followup conversation, contact me! Subscribe to YouTube channel

Oct 24, 201530 min

#3 - Pop Psychology, Agile + OD and Organizational Coaching

This week’s episode features a few people from Canada, the US and Australia. Our topic, debating the arguments from Episode 1 with Paul Gibbons. Is pop psychology all that bad or is it necessary for more people to have surface knowledge as opposed to deep knowledge of these change models?We also talked about organizational coaching and how agile and OD intersect. Subscribe to YouTube channel

Sep 17, 201536 min

#2 - Solving Problems With The Hot Seat

This episode features Salah Elleithy, Agile Coach, Trainer and founder of Spark Agility. Salah joined an open session with me at Agile 2015 where myself and a few other people tried out a technique called The Hot Seat.Salah recently tried this out with a client and in this episode we chat about why he wanted to try it, how he did it and what happened. Subscribe to YouTube channel

Sep 03, 201520 min

#1 - Agile and Organizational Change with Paul Gibbons

This is the first Lean Change Management podcast featuring Paul Gibbons, the author of The Science of Successful Organizational Change. In this episode we talk about what the Agile community can learn from the organizational development and change management communities. We also tackle a variety of topics including:The dangers of Pop Psychology (2:25)The expert trap (4:00)The need for certainty as it relates to change (7:10)70% failure ‘stat’ (8:15)BDUF – Big Design Up Front for change programs ...

Aug 20, 201527 min