Managing Change

The world is rapidly changing and competition is fierce. Organizations that do not effectively manage change will not succeed for long. A critical attribute of effective leaders is that do have an effective means for managing change. However, many organizations struggle with managing change. Barriers include:

-Leaders are not together on long range plans and sometimes the top leader is not even aware of it -Leaders do not reach consensus on major decisions -Leaders try to do it all -Leaders are more interested in this month’s results than long range results -Strategic Plans either do not exist or are rarely implemented -Trying to make too many changes at once -Failure to successfully complete initiatives -Have no effective means for measuring progress -Benefits of changes made are not maintained through time -Everyone is too busy fighting fires to have time to become proactive with change -Employees are not all pulling in the same direction -Employees do not understand or buy in to plans for change -Etc.

Do any of these attributes describe your organization? Most leaders would not feel like these describe them or otherwise they would have already taken corrective action. However, many leaders are in denial. Wise leaders would by some effective means determine how employees throughout the organization feel regarding how effectively they feel change is being managed. This could be done by a well-designed survey or properly conducted interviews.

There is an old saying that if you keep doing what you have been doing you will keep getting what you have been getting. That saying is no longer true. Today with the world changing as rapidly as it is, the organization is going backwards. There is no such thing as standing still. Which way is your organization going? Should it is not be going forward or at least not fast enough, then what are you going to be doing differently in the future? I suggest that you need to find a structured change process and possibly an outside resource to assist with implementing it. Should you think you couldn’t afford the time and/or money, consider the cost of not making the appropriate changes fast enough.

One specific option to consider is to use a change process I designed it and have been using it with my clients for more that ten years. The process will be explained on my Managing Change Blog at eqcs-managingchange.blogspot.com It currently contains an overview of my process. Every two weeks an update will take place and the steps in the process explained in detail. Remember; do not keep doing what you have been doing if you are not happy with the current results. That is called insanity!

Jim Rose EQ Consulting Services eq-consultingservices.com jrose@eq-consultingservices.com



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