We pay a lot of attention at work to beginnings, but change is more effective if we honour endings

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Work is filled with beginnings and endings. Beginnings are celebrated, at least by managers. Beginnings receive time, attention and care. Endings, for the most part, are ignored even if they are vital to our psychic and emotional health.

Executive coaches Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas believe we need to be aware of the endings that often accompany change, for which we may be the architect or navigator. It may be the impact of a merger; the loss of a colleague who has retired, gone to a new employer, been promoted, shifted to a new depart