Blog - Tanya Heaney-Voogt

Dinosaurs, Rainbows and Change. What’s the connection?

When you're scanning the environment for dinosaurs, don't forget to look for the rainbows. One of the most human responses to any workplace change is fear. Fear of what this change may mean to me. My job role My title My self-esteem The tools I currently use in...

Middle Managers – The Salami in the Change Sandwich

Middle Managers are an integral cog in the change wheel They are instrumental in driving the change forward through their direct reports, yet, despite this, Middle Managers are often left out of discussions or consultation regarding change and then have the unenviable...

Are You and Your Team Playing to Your Strengths?

Are You and Your Team Playing to Your Strengths? At the start of 2021, a senior manager approached me for Coaching. Feeling inadequate in a new role and struggling to engage a new team they were doubting their abilities and ‘not in a good place'. As part of the...

COVID and Occupational Violence. Is there a silver lining?

Occupational Violence & Aggression (OVA) is a complex issue. If COVID has had one positive for our health sector it is that safety screens have been erected in almost all medical clinics. But why did it take a global pandemic for health services to take...

How to live and breathe your organisations core values

Are your organisation’s values lived and breathed, or framed and forgotten? The challenge for any organisation is keeping values – and the accompanying behavioural statements – top of mind and alive throughout the organisation. They must be lived and breathed,...

Resilience

Resilience Resilience has always been a topic that fascinates me - on a personal level and professional level - and it's a hot topic now as we manage the emotional side of world events. But it is a word that risks being flippantly used or seen as the silver bullet -...

Is Your Workplace Psychologically Safe?

Is Your Workplace Psychologically Safe? Psychological Safety is almost intangible. In that, it is a little like workplace culture. Hard to define at times but you just know when things aren’t right. When environments are not psychologically safe there’s a feeling....

Enough, Already

Enough, Already There will always be more good ideas than capacity to execute. How then does an organisation choose which ideas to resource and execute? It’s no secret we’re all grappling with change saturation – in our lives right now and in the workplace. Change is...

One Step to a Better Culture

Can you remember a time where you felt you did not belong? What about in the workplace? Have you ever felt excluded from a conversation, a group, or an opportunity? Excluded from an invite for coffee or lunch at the ‘cool kids’ table? Or have you ever been in a...

How to shake off a poor organisational history

One of the barriers to engaging employees in organisational change initiatives is that change may not have been managed well in the past. In fact, when working on culture change initiatives it is not uncommon to find poorly managed change at the root of a toxic...

What does someone who helps Leaders Transform Workplaces get up to in her day job!

Well, I’m so glad you asked. Last Wednesday I started the day with an early morning change coaching catch up with one of my Cracking the Change Code Clients. This awesome HR Lead in the water industry is driving diversity & inclusion change across the...

Taking the wild ride to Future State

Picture this... Your leader turns up in the company bus (just go with it...) and yells excitedly through the driver's window "Everybody get on! We're going for a ride to a place called Future State!" Let’s assume you have high psychological safety in this team, so you...