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One thing all employees want when it comes to change
And, by ‘employees’, I mean people.
I spent 20+ years of my corporate career helping organizations and project teams motivate and engage employees around change.
I help teams answer this question:
“How might we get [stakeholder group] to use what we’re spending so much money to create and implement?”
Rolling out a change within an organization presents an interesting challenge. Unlike launching a new product into the marketplace, sometimes the internal audience at a company doesn’t see a need.
If you’ve ever been an employee…ever…you’ve likely experienced at least one of these changes during your employment tenure.
- New software to complete a critical component of your job
- New performance management process
- New compensation structure
It’s likely that these changes were often introduced top-down. Someone decided for you that this was how work would be done. There was never a question of whether or not you would use them. The change management was designed to mitigate the amount of friction they would cause you in your day.
The discipline of change management is exploding. Organizations have seemingly embraced the fact that the ROI is better when someone with training and skill in change management is part of introducing the change into the organization. But, the most popular change management…