Past results are not are not a guarantee of future success
At the heart of managing a successful business is the ability to firstly recognise that the world is changing and that the market place is changing even more quickly, and secondly - to ensure that the business and organisation is equipped for and ready to change to ensure continued business success.
New products and/ or services may mean that businesses need to continually develop or acquire the competencies to understand, market and sell these. Global Corporate requirements may mean that employees need to behave in new ways that are consistent with that direction. Aggressive growth and profit targets may mean that organisations need to find new ways to help employees become more productive.
The "dos" and "don'ts" of successful change management
What we have learned from our experience working on numerous large and small change management initiatives is: The main contributor to project success is active, strong and visible sponsorship throughout the project. The top obstacles to successful change are employee resistance at all levels: front-line, middle managers, and senior managers and inadequate senior management sponsorship. Employees want to hear messages about change from two people: the CEO and their immediate supervisor - the message they want to hear from each individual is very different. Then asked what they would do differently next time, most teams would dedicate resources to change management. The top reason for employee resistance is a lack of awareness about the change.
Development Edge Consulting is your partner of choice for any Change Management initiative. We work with you to provide the know-how to:
Effectively manage change Manage and overcome employee resistance Build executive support for projects Coach teams on what to do differently on their next project Ensure that cultural sensitivities are identified and managed
In particular we assist you to identify the best strategies to: Coach and educate those who will be accountable for the change (sponsors) Managing resistance with senior managers Develop the most effective tactics for deploying change management with managers and supervisors Identify which is the most resistant group The best tactics to manage resistance Build change management competency in your organisation
The consequences or a poorly managed change process or initiative can be devastating for your business. Development Edge Consulting will help you to manage any change as effectively as possible and will work with you to ensure that your business results are what they should be.
Free Resources:
Click on this link for an outline of a one-day Change workshop that we ran for an organisation that had integrated several new teams into its field force.
This is an outline of a half-day workshop that we delivered for all employees of an organisation that was dealing with a merger transition. This workshop was developed for staff level employees. Here is the Management workshop version. | 
