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Change management is having a game plan
This quick guide from ISO provides a useful introductory summary of key aspects of the change process. It includes setting frameworks, choosing the right model, and commentary on making change stick. If you’re an experienced practitioner it’ll be pretty familiar, but if you’re building your baseline knowledge of change management, it’s a good jumping off…
Major change management plan template
If you’ve been tasked with implementing major change, it may be one of the most challenging assignments of your career. This Major Change Management Plan Template from Business Enterprise Mapping provides a high level summary of the sorts of objectives and process steps that should be covered in your strategy. It doesn’t provide guidance on…
Using induction to drive change
Attitudes towards induction programmes are changing. There has always been a focus on meeting the team, health and safety, and operational systems. However, there is a growing recognition that induction/onboarding programmes can be powerful tools for driving and embedding organisational change. In our experience, you have three months to set the culture for new employees….
Values alignment key to successful change?
This 2008 research paper from Emerald Insight – Achieving organisational change through values alignment – investigates the importance of values alignment in successful change strategies. It concludes that widespread resistance to organisational change is caused by a failure of current organisational change strategies to attend to a values alignment process for all those people affected…
How is AI influencing change management?
This article from Primeast explores how AI is impacting change management. It argues that in the change space, AI is transforming task management and improving the effectiveness of change management by driving efficiency, providing predictive insights and automating routine tasks. It argues that with a more agile, data-driven approach, AI helps change managers lead smoother…
Lewin’s Change model
Are you a change manager or senior leader, looking to navigate transitions effectively? Check out this comprehensive post from July on Lewin’s Change Model. The model is a great tool for anyone planning or implementing organisational changes, from IT upgrades to company-wide restructuring. The article breaks down Lewin’s three-stage process – Unfreeze, Change, and Refreeze –…
Diagnosing the need for change
If you’re interested in frameworks and models for diagnosing the need for change, this article provides a useful summary of the more common diagnostic tools, including Weisbord’s Six Box Model, the Burke-Litwin Causal Model, Force Field Analysis and the 7S Framework. All of them stress the interrelated nature of change drivers and the need to…