Who Rocked the Boat?: A Story about Navigating the Inevitability of Change

Learn How to Turn Change into Opportunity

“Change is not merely necessary to life—it is life.” –Alvin Toffler

In this FranklinCovey book on responding to change, explore your own experiences with change using a river journey parable as a point-of-reference. Take this voyage and discover timeless principles and timely results from an industry leader who has helped numerous organizations turn disruptive change into individual and collective opportunity.

Who Rocked the Boat? We all travel along various rivers in life, which means at any moment we can find ourselves navigating their uncertainty—whether a global pandemic, a new boss, a shift in employment, business restructuring, a new role on a team, starting a new course in school, a new business strategy, the birth of a child, divorce, or responding to a setback on a project or personal goal.

Shift happens! Change is going to happen. It’s a fact of life. Understanding your reactions and making good choices could make the difference between capitalizing on an opportunity or resisting and missing an important chance.

The FranklinCovey Change Model. While every change is unique, there is a predictable pattern to change, and understanding this pattern and building the skills to navigate it is often the difference between success and failure. The FranklinCovey Change Model provides the structure necessary to orient, ground, and gain clarity about change. Then, like the ship’s crew in the river journey parable, we can use the model as a map to chart our way forward: making key decisions, adopting new behaviors, and building ideal conditions for innovation. Today, with change coming at us in fast and increasingly disruptive ways, understanding The Change Model is more important than ever.

If books such as Together Is Better by Simon Sinek, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, or Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson have been valuable, you will want to read Who Rocked the Boat?

About the Author

Curtis Bateman, with over 25 years of experience in the training industry, is an internationally recognized presenter, content developer, change consultant, business leader, and coach. His passion for enabling organizations ‘at change’ was established early on, resulting in the co-creation of a number of transformative, industry-leading solutions, including Change Element, Leaders@Change, Managing Millennials, Millennials @Work, and the Change Practitioner.

Curtis’ career has taken him all over the world, engaging in high impact work with global accounts such as Disney, Etisalat in UAE, and Bloomberg, to today overseeing the success of FranklinCovey’s international division.

This experience across continents is invaluable to his ability to connect with individuals, informing a thoughtful, intentional, and inclusive approach to delivery that empowers others to bring their best—whatever their geography or industry.