Organisational Change Management Plan—Streamlining the Change Management Process
The goals of this growth can be to increase a customer base, to achieve larger financial targets or to be known as leaders within the industry. Regardless of the goals, some sort of progression or transformation needs to take place within an organisation for these goals to be reached.
Organisation change management cannot take place unless the people involved are on-board. This means that managers need an armoury of change solutions, which are effective in altering people’s behaviour, so that they will effectively embrace the change management process.
Problems with initiating a change management process
Trying to initiate change in such a disparate collection of work environments and workplace cultures has made a difficult process even more complex and fraught with danger.
Add to this already muddled environment, the problem that business management changes, more often than not, it lacks a clear strategic plan and you end up with a process that is designed for failure. Organisational change management involves not only having a practical goal in sight, but it must also include the education and training of staff or clients, as well as clear communications and achievable time-frames.
Simply announcing new goals or changes does not make them happen. The voice from high will not resonate well with those down below, particularly if there is no plan, no help and no clear reason to change. All that will result is that employees will become apathetic and disengaged or resentful of the entire changed management process – if one even exists.
Effective change solutions need a proven strategy
The most successful change solutions involve four key components, all of which must be in place for the process to be successful. Ignoring any of these steps will jeopardise the transition to change; certainly lengthening the time to completion and most likely bringing it to a screeching halt.
The four keys to a successful change management process
Implementing your organisational change management plan is not a linear progression from one step to the next, it involves organic change at all levels of a company. Some of these four steps can be taken together, others will benefit from feedback and yet others can only be implemented after previous steps.
There are no rules when you are initiating change within an organisation, there are however, four proven steps that must be taken:
Including external partners in the change management process
When new partnerships initiate changes within an organization, the partners need to work closely with the designated advocates for these changes and also contribute to the education and training of staff as necessary.
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