Upon re-reading the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Five Stages of Grief model, I shuddered. How could it be so accurate in mirroring exactly what I had gone through in the last few months?
Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.
First mentioned in Kübler-Ross’ book, On Death and Dying,1 the model has since been applied in organisations to help employees through organisational changes that are introduced. Today, there are many other change management frameworks such as the McKinsey 7S Framework and Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model that similarly serve to help organisations and their employees through change.
While organisations have been acquainted with...