Increase Your Stakeholder's Commitment and Contribution to Successful Change
Our methods for engaging stakeholders in successful change are
very different and far more effective than other less
sophisticated approaches. First of all, we treat stakeholder
engagement as an integral component of your change strategy.
Never an after-thought, but rather an essential part of your
change process design right from the beginning.
 Second,
we integrate stakeholder engagement into the real work of
change. Why? Because simply communicating more or adding greater
opportunity for input does not work to produce sustained
engagement and commitment. For each critical change task in your
change process, we help you decide who must be involved in the
task, what type of engagement they need (i.e., information only,
input, decision-making, action) and which vehicles you will use
to engage them (technology, face-to-face, small group, large
group.) In our approach, your stakeholders get involved in real
work so they end up emotionally “owning” your change process and
outcomes. They become invested.
Third, we address your entire stakeholder community — not just employees. Yes, your employees are primary, but other
internal and external customers can make or break your change
effort. By addressing the engagement needs of your entire
project community, you build commitment faster and sustain it
over time.
Fourth, we address how stakeholders will be engaged during
all aspects of your change process. This means “upstream” during
planning, “mid-stream” during design, and “downstream”
throughout implementation. Most approaches make the mistake of
addressing engagement only during implementation, but by then,
your stakeholders will be resistant to your change because they
have been left out of it for far too long. We help you engage
people early, in just the right ways, to balance the speed for
change with the needed stakeholder commitment to make it happen.
For more information about how these approaches can
accelerate your change efforts and reduce their human cost, call
us at 970-385-5100.
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