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The biggest mistake most change management makes is to not have a why answer (that is a version of the end state description) or worse answering “Why?” with a response that sounds like a parent addressing a child. Most of the heavily marketed “turn key” change management models out there set up the parent/child answer to be carried all the way through the change process. With the same kind of results Continue reading The Why of Change 
The Comcast guy/women sees all and likely knows a way to use the information for efficiency and cost savings. Just like a high level change management consultant. As a leader or practitioner look for the overlaps and missed connections. Continue reading What does the Comcast guy have to do with Change Management? Choosing an independent, trusted advisor, gives you the owner/leader the confidence of knowing there is one person who can help with initial strategy, who can guide the description of your end state and who can keep the pulse of the process in order to make mid stream corrections. There main focus is solutions and your end state- without that they have no career. That is a powerful, influential force to have at your side. Continue reading Why You Should Choose an Independent Consultant for your Initiative Change is full of people who want or refuse to give up CONTROL. If you are a senior leader in a position to look at all that from the top of the mountain do so before you make any decisions about how to spend that budget and how to move toward that end state Continue reading Change Management Control 
A good CM who chooses to be in the middle of our circle is a non-partisan, no agenda other than getting to the end state, facilitator of links, connections and collaboration. Continue reading Change Communications- Shortening Connections Consultant to client, thinking of the change management within, “You realize your organization will have to change in order to get this change to happen?”. Change Management within must, through the skill of senior practitioners, address the current culture, structure and process in order to get to end states. Continue reading The Change Management Within Creating Pull Towards an End State audio interview. Continue reading Creating Pull Towards an End State Spending all of your time on big picture views will not guarantee energetic participation. Neither will trying to find some hidden magical resistance eraser. Showing the change makes sense and then connecting that at an individual level, while carrying no money back guarantees, is a better mix. Continue reading Change Management two Translations The pinch hitter analogy for change management is a good one if you are not thinking that the external consultant is there to bunt and get out of the game. It works if you do not think that the CM comes in and hits a home run to finish the whole thing off. Change management has a long timeline from idea to post adoption. It pays to keep that in mind. Don’t wait until the game is almost lost to use your external pinch hitter. Continue reading Change Management Pinch Hitter? If stakeholders have a connection to the end state and you can communicate that you will get participation. If you illustrate their spot in the process that participation will last throughout your initiative. If your approach does not do this… Good luck. Continue reading Stakeholder Connection to Change in Three Steps |
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