Business leaders need to be highly effective in change management to ensure their business survives and thrives. As a business leader, you can’t control the environment. But you can control how you react.
All progress is the result of change. So fearing change or fighting change is the wrong way to go. Instead, choose to change. Fight the fears that block your change. And look for the progress that will come your way.
Creating organisational change in uncertain times.
Have you ever had an employee who has made it clear that they will risk everything (even their job) rather than comply with a new work procedure? You have probably tried to explain how much better off they would be by doing so, but they just don’t get the message. Chances are that they are resisting because you are challenging deeply held beliefs and values.
"Change is hard" we say - and even harder when it is forced upon us.
Wise heads have seen economic cycles come and go. There are lessons from the past to steer an organisation through the worst of it.
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Mostly from painful experience, business leaders learn that change management is a critical skill. The fact that 70% of change initiatives fail indicates that change is complex and risky. But it doesn't have to be that way - if we manage change in the fresh light of hardwired human behaviour.
People change in and of their own volition, based upon decisions that are in their own best interests. What good businesses do, is help establish an environment that makes change conducive, easy and appropriate for the people within the organisation.
Anyone who works with people knows that not everyone sees the need for change or is motivated to take action. So how can you influence change? There are 5 main contributing factors.
Make your change management efforts more successful by understanding these 8 realities of change - and preparing for them accordingly.
Why is it that most change strategies simply don't work?
For most people, particularly those of us in the fast-paced business world, change is about the only thing you can count on. To get ahead in business you must learn how to deal with, and make the most of change.
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The following are some of the most common reasons I've identified why organisational change fails. You can use the list for diagnostic purposes, or to prevent mistakes in future attempts at change.
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