Organisations face a myriad of different kinds of endings every day. Some more obvious and traumatic, such as the death of a colleague, and others more everyday, from the completion of a project, to promotions, redundancies, mergers – the list is long. But while we invest heavily in beginnings and new starts in terms of time, energy and emotion, as leaders we can move on rather too swiftly from endings. Yet incomplete and unacknowledged endings impact the contribution and motivation of those who remain, and may be carried into the next team, the next project and the organisation as a whole.

In 2020, the current context we all find ourselves in, one of many layers of often distressing endings, led hosts and professionally accredited coaches and facilitators, Alison Lucas and Lizzie Bentley Bowers, to create resources to support leaders, including this podcast, and we share it with you in the hope that it may be of support to you as leaders navigating your way through this time as well as in the future.

You can find out more, or contact us at www.endingsforbeginnings.co.uk.

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

Managing Transitions by William Bridges

Systemic Coaching and constellations 3rd edition by John Whittington

Managing With the Brain in Mind by David Rock

A Grief Observed by C S Lewis

Little Gidding by T S Elliot

How Grief Can Help Us Win When We Lose - TEDx talk by Sophie Sabbage

Daring Greatly by Brené BrownWhat Do You Say About Saying Goodbye - Ending Psychotherapy by Keith Tudor

This is Endings for Beginnings - the podcast to help leaders begin planning for a better ending.

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