WHAT IS CHANGE MANAGEMENT?
Welcome to hantidhawre in this post topics you are going to learn are what is change management, four principles of change management and importance of change management. Let’s start read it.
Change management is the systematic approach which deals with the transition or transformation of different organizational objectives process core values or technologies the project development process and all the other factors related to the project are not that stable and have to be changed every so often because of the shifting requirements of the market, that’s why project managers have to organize a process of change management in their development strategy to ensure that it can handle any changes that come in the way of their development process being a success with these.
Now come to the four principles of change management, successful change management depends on four core principles they are :
1: Understanding change
2: Plan change
3: Implement change
4: Communicate change
let’s explore these along with some tools and techniques that you can use to put them into operation
1: UNDERSTANDING CHANGE
To strongly promote the benefits of the change you need to figure out them yourself so think about why do you need to change? what are you key objectives what will the benefits of the change be to the organization? how will it affect people positively and what will people need to do manage the change successfully, it can also be important to think about what the negative results of not making the change would be. Becked and harris change equation explain that for change to work there has to be enough discomfort with the old way of doing things. People should feel confident that the new approach will be better and that there’s a straightforward way to get there.
2: PLAN CHANGE
Effective change doesn’t just appear by chance and plan you make should be right for your business, how change projects are managed can vary from organization to organization some have definite change procedures while others are more visible and flexible in their approach, however you will need to consider sponsorship how will you secure undertake and use high level encouragement and sponsorship of the change involvement.
Who is best positioned to help you design and execute the change for example will you need outside expertise or can you use domestic resources, support change is most efficient when you can win support from people across the business, impact finally think about what success should look like how will you predict and assesd the impact of the change that you need to make and what goals do you need to achieve.
3: IMPLEMENT CHANGE
As we’ve seen there are many strategies that you can choose to out your change into practice for example cotters eight step change model explains how to inject a sense of urgency into your actions so that you build momentum and inspire everyone to get behind your changes, meanwhile the change curve evokes you to be mindful of peoples feelings while putting your plan into operation it shows the stages that we all go through during organizational change from shock and denail to fully investing in the fresh approach.
The following steps can help you implement change positively ensure that everyone involved in the changes understands that needs to happen and what it means for them agree to the success criteria of your changes and make sure that they’re regularly measured and recorded. map and identify all the key stakeholders that will be involved in the change, identify any training needs that must be discussed in order to implement the change hire change agents who will help to put the new practices into place and who can act as role models for the fresh approaches, change people’s habits so that the new practices become the norm clarify that everyone is supported throughout the change process.
4: COMMUNICATE CHANGE
Communication is a very important component of change management, the change that you want to achieve has to be clear and appropriate so people understand what you want them to do why they need to do it but you have to set the right mode so that you get the emotional reaction you are expecting for also be sure to practice good stakeholder management this will assure that you give the right people the right message at the correct time to get the help that you need for your project the ad car change management model is useful tool that you can use to help communicate your change it describes 5 things you should try in your communications awareness of the need for change desire to take part in and support it knowledge of how to change ability to change reinforcement to sustain the change in the long session.
Let’s move on to importance of change management ease the pressure and create a simple process in recent years companies are seeing change management play a significant role in implementing new technology many people worry that as technology advances it will take over the workplace, this often causes a struggle to change in firms looking to implement new technology, by encouraging employees to better understand change you create a system that is more open minded and free to change.
