Change
Summary: When there’s change or uncertainty at work, it’s normal to experience some degree of fear or anxiety. If you’re also stressed for any other reason, your resistance to change can be intense. These free resources can help.
For individuals
There are resources for when you’re Starting a job or Coping with change in your personal or professional life.
For leaders
Leaders who support psychological health and safety want to help employees manage change effectively.
Change articles and resources
The list that follows includes the resources linked to above as well as related information that may be more specific to your current situation.
Explore how you can navigate change to help you accept and adapt to changes beyond your control.
Any organizational change may have an unsettling impact on employees. You can help through thoughtful planning, effective communication, and engaging employees in exploring how changes can be handled in a psychologically safe way.
Get tips to make a great first impression while managing the stress and demands of a new job.
This team-building activity can help develop awareness of how we react to change.
It can seem daunting to prioritize and choose those evidence-based actions most likely to improve psychological health and safety in the work environment. Use this Creating change process to help you think through the options and guide your decision making.
This tool can help develop an accommodation or work plan when psychological, emotional, cognitive or physical challenges may be impacting an employee. It’s not a medical approach; it’s intended as a discussion between the employee and their leader.
Resources for supporting performance in a psychologically safe way, even when mental health is an issue. These strategies focus on solutions that also support employee well-being.
Use these workshop materials to help make it easier for decision-makers to say yes to psychological health and safety at work.
Support psychological safety by approaching workplace issues in terms of solutions instead of problems.
Capture employee perspectives and knowledge to support a smooth transition to retirement. Help your employees retire with a sense of pride by identifying their accomplishments.