Develops Your Strategy and Roadmap to Ensure Successful Change
Outcomes
- Maximum change results, achieved faster with lowered cost
- Alignment of your leaders and stakeholders for action because they all know the long term strategy and plan
- Reduced confusion and resistance in employees and far greater buy-in
- More ability to course correct and alter your implementation plan as needed
- Greater understanding of the capacity required to implement your strategy for success
Issues Addressed
No executive would start up a new business without a clear business strategy, yet many attempt to lead major transformation, which is also extremely high risk, high gain and complex, without a clear change strategy. No wonder so many change efforts fail.
Without a clear strategy, change often moves in fits and starts, wastes resources, alienates people and disrupts business operations. It often triggers political conflicts because every executive feels reesonsible for his or her own organization and does not want to divert focus or resources. Change impacts large numbers of employees, triggers fear and concern and causes confusion about the future and current priorities. By developing a solid change strategy, you can align people and mitigate these negative forces.
Approach
Our clients benefit from our proven change strategy template. We address:
- Values and Guiding Principles for the change
- Change Governance, including: 1) roles and responsibilities; 2) decision-making; 3)governing structure; and 4)interface of change with ongoing operations
- Initiative identification and integration, including: 1) integrating sub-initiatives; 2) fit and priority of your initiative in the larger change agenda; and 3) multiple project integration strategy
- Bold actions required to get people's attention
- Engagement Strategy
- Communication Plan
- Acceleration Strategies
- Resources
- Milestone events and timeline
Which of these elements are attended to and how deeply they are addressed are determined by the project's scope and need.
For large projects, the executive team or the change leadership team owns and develops the key aspects of the change strategy. In these cases, your change strategy is best developed in a multi-day retreat setting just as your executive team would develop your business strategy. For smaller projects, the project team can develop the change stragety for approval by your executives. The executives must agree to the change strategy because they control the resources to execute it successfully. Plus, they must consider the change stragety in light of operational priorities to ensure that adequate capacity and attention will exist throughout the change process to ensure both operational and change success.
Building change strategy is an essential best practice for transformation that is often overlooked. Don't make that mistake. We can help you develop an effective change strategy and the ROI will be large. We guarantee it.
Call us at 970-385-5100 to discuss how you can establish a change strategy that will ensure your change effort's success. |
