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Spot it
Surface the everyday behaviours, intentional and accidental, that create friction and stall progress.
Pealey Consulting · Human-centred change
Diagnose & Mitigate Organisational Self-Sabotage
A 90-minute session that surfaces the subtle, unintentional ways your own teams and leaders get in the way of the change you're trying to deliver and what to do about it.
No one sets out to sabotage the work.
Change initiatives rarely fail because someone actively wants them to fail. They fail because ordinary, well-intentioned behaviour like cautious meetings, unclear decisions, quiet resistance, unspoken confusion, quietly stalls progress. It's invisible until someone names it. That's what this session does.
Four moves, ninety minutes
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Name it
Get honest, as a group, about the patterns already showing up, without blame.
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See it clearly
A declassified WWII field manual on organisational sabotage reframes what you're already seeing, and makes the patterns impossible to unsee.
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Act on it
Using Covey's Circles of Control, Influence and Concern, the group sorts what's worth their energy and each person commits to one concrete action.
You don't leave with a page of notes you'll never open again.
You leave with one clear commitment on how you'll handle disruptive or sabotaging behaviour next time you meet it, from a client, a team, a manager or a colleague.
"It all came together when we mapped our own experiences onto Covey's circles of concern, influence and control. That exercise was the bit that stuck. It stopped us dwelling on what we can't change and forced us to get specific about what's actually ours to act on — the two or three things we can do differently starting Monday, rather than just naming the friction and moving on feeling vaguely better. Liz has built a low-friction, 90-minute session away from the desk that gives you real, usable takeaways rather than theory."
About Liz Pealey
Liz helps organisations make complex change actually work. Fixing broken processes, connecting siloed teams, improving customer journeys, and retaining great people. 15+ years across Lloyds Banking Group, HMRC, HSBC and Sky Betting & Gaming, in fractional Transformation and Operational Change roles. Liz has a knack for finding the real problem and helping organisations solve it.
Format & investment
- 90 minutes- 2 hours, in person or virtual
- For change leaders, ops leads, product leaders and their teams
- Includes a short written summary of what surfaced and recommended next steps
- Founding client rate: from £600
Limited founding-client pricing while case studies are being built.
Take a quick Friction Score check
Four questions to reflect on your change before booking a conversation.
See how findings carry into ongoing support
Explore focused working sessions and flexible retainer support.
Go and do the one thing that's within your control.
Let's find out what's quietly undermining your team's next initiative before it costs you the whole thing.
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