Good Bye

There is a myriad of endings every day in organisations.In the Myriad series, authors of Good Bye Alison and Lizzie, explore one specific ending and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. Using their REAR model—Reality, Emotions, Accomplishment and Ritual—they also offer some practical ways to help leaders end and begin well.This episode focuses on mergers, whether it’s teams or whole organisations, this is one of the most complex events we can experience in organisational life and is rife with opportunities to increase the strength and success of the mergerThe conversation includes:The role of transparencyNavigating the challenge of different information being available to different people atdifferent timesHidden pitfalls and ways to avoid themHistory matters – acknowledging the past as you celebrate the newLosses, opportunities and assumptions

There is a myriad of endings every day in organisations.In the Myriad series, authors of Good Bye Alison and Lizzie, explore one specific ending and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. Using their REAR model—Reality, Emotions, Accomplishment and Ritual—they also offer some practical ways to help leaders end and begin well.This episode focuses on promotion and progression and how we might miss opportunities to have even brighter beginnings by giving more time and thought to ending well.The conversation includes:Approaching all endings as opportunities rather than boxing them in to positives andnegativesUnexpected complexities, including rivals for the rolePurposeful planning for the full realityThe impact of longer careersConfidence and imposter moments

There is a myriad of endings every day in organisations.In the Myriad series, authors of Good Bye Alison Lucas and Lizzie Bentley-Bowers, explore one specific ending and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. Using their REAR model—Reality, Emotions, Accomplishment and Ritual—they also offer some practical ways to help leaders end and begin well.This episode focuses on redundancy, one of the most emotionally charged endings in organisational life.The conversation includes:The isolating impact of redundancy on both sides of the tableThe ripple effect of redundancy on the individual, organisation, family and friendsFinding ways to end well through complex legal and HR processesNavigating the liminal space between rolesRestoring confidence

When Alison and Lizzie wrote Good Bye, they always knew they wanted their final chapter to be a Good Bye to their readers; an opportunity for them to use their Four Steps of Ending well Reality, Emotions, Accomplishments and Ritual, to end the process of writing their book. As you’ll hear in this episode, when it came to writing that chapter, they didn’t feel like it was quite the right moment, and the idea to make the last chapter a podcast was born. And this is it! In this first episode of the new Good Bye podcast (previously Endings for Beginnings) Alison and Lizzie take each other, and you, their readers and listeners, through the Reality, Emotions, Accomplishments and Ritual of saying a Good Bye to writing their book.You can find out more, order a copy of Good Bye, or get in touch with Alison and Lizzie, at www.GoodByeCoach.co.uk

This is Endings for Beginnings - the podcast to help leaders begin planning for a better ending. Following the response to their first article and podcast in 2020, Alison and Lizzie’s intention to start more conversations about endings in organisations in order to facilitate brighter beginnings has very much become a reality.In this episode, Alison and Lizzie talk to fellow endings activist Iona Lawrence about the work she, and her colleagues at Stewarding Loss, are doing to support better endings in the not-for-profit sector. Iona also set up and was the founding Director of the Jo Cox Foundation. In this conversation we take an in depth look at the multi faceted nature of endings in organisations and discuss why this work is important to individuals, to organisations and to the not-for-profit sector as a whole. You can find Iona at www.stewardingloss.comYou can find out more about our work, or contact us, at www.endingsforbeginnings.co.uk. There's always so much emphasis on a good beginning but what about the right ending? As leaders we can move on rather too quickly. Yet unfinished and unrecognised endings hugely impact those who remain, and may be carried into the next team, the next project and the organisation as a whole. Alison and Lizzie are professionally accredited coaches and facilitators, working predominantly at board level and across all three sectors, who love to enrich their practise by working and learning together. They are passionate about staying continually curious and paying attention to their clients individual and commercial needs and outcomes.

This is Endings for Beginnings - the podcast to help leaders begin planning for a better ending. There's always so much emphasis on a good beginning but what about the right ending? As leaders we can move on rather too quickly. Yet unfinished and unrecognised endings hugely impact those who remain, and may be carried into the next team, the next project and the organisation as a whole. Following the response to their first article and podcast in 2020, Alison and Lizzie’s intention to start more conversations about endings in organisations in order to facilitate brighter beginnings, has very much become a reality.In this episode, focused on transition and change, Alison and Lizzie talk to colleagues and clients about the application and impact of their work. In conversation with Sally Chessman, Rosie Ferguson and Shoshana Boyd-Gelfand they delve deeper into why this work matters, what the benefits are and how to go about it. You can find out more about our work, or contact us, at www.endingsforbeginnings.co.uk.To learn more about the work of the Pears Foundation, ACEVO and House of St Barnabus here are the links you need:https://hosb.org.uk/https://www.acevo.org.uk/https://pearsfoundation.org.ukAlison and Lizzie are professionally accredited coaches and facilitators, working predominantly at board level and across all three sectors, who love to enrich their practise by working and learning together. They are passionate about staying continually curious and paying attention to their clients individual and commercial needs and outcomes.