At the last blog, How to #5 Implement Change, I covered the execution of the Change Management Plan.  Now we can look at monitoring, which includes: recording and assessing data to validate the successes and stumbling blocks or failures of the project.  Identifying both positive and negative effects throughout the change process will provide leadership […]

Hi I’m back to share my thoughts on Implementation & Training (building awareness) of the Change Management Plan. In my blog, How to #4 Manage the Scope of the Change: Planning Organizational Change, I discussed how important the planning phase is. Now we can talk about making The Plan a reality. Leadership support Early preparation […]

Planning organizational change is often undervalued, but it is vital to the change management process.   Whether your improvement project is small in scale or a complete facelift, it will entail a number of changes.   The effects of which are determined by attention paid during the planning stages.  Poor-planning (which usually includes lack of planned communication […]

In this segment of my blog series, I have combined two areas that have a natural association. Convincing your team of the need for change (minimizing resistance) Effective continuous communication during the change process (accepting feedback & eliminating confusion) Minimizing Resistance The most difficult aspect of Change Management is convincing people that the change will […]

In the first of my Change Management blog series, How to Deal with “Always Done It This Way”, I asked you to contemplate possible processes that your company may have outgrown or outlived.  Are you prepared to Get-Out-of-Your-Own-Way? [quote style=”boxed”]“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong,” by Charles Kettering[/quote] 1.Why […]

A consistent, persistent, and dangerous theme has resonated throughout my 43 years of directing quality systems and process improvements, it is simply the opposition to change.  I can honestly say I haven’t worked with a single company where I didn’t hear “We’ve always done it this way”.  According to a pioneer of computer programming and […]