Change Management
Change is inevitable and all change brings with it complications. Effective change management leverages strategies to drive individual transitions and ultimately organizational success.
As humans, we tend to fear change not for the change itself but for what the change means. When we make change, we lose the immediate awareness of how we’ve understood something; we’ve lost the way we’re used to because the change itself represents something new. It’s a loss experience that can be mapped identically to how a human experiences grief.
“As a Prosci ADKAR trained Change Management Specialist, I am uniquely equipped to integrate individual and organizational change management to ensure that successful change results can be achieved. My role is to support the organization and it’s leadership through both a loss and gain experience. For those struggling with the loss of the way they used to do things to the gain of a new and improved way.”
Some tools that can be used in managing successful change are:
Creating a change characteristics profile to gain insight into the change at hand, its size, scope and impact
Developing an organization's attribute profile to give a view of the organization and the groups impacted that may contribute to challenges when changing
Reviewing the change management team structure to correctly define the resources needed and their relationship to the change sponsor
Comprehensive change sponsor assessment that identifies which leaders across the organization will need to act as key sponsors of the change, and how to get those leaders on board and actively engaged
Change impact assessment to identify groups impacted by the change and in what ways
Change management strategy written based on the assessments completed so a strategy that scales the change management effort aligns with the type and size of the change
