The cultural and emotional aspects of change are as important as the strategic goals, however many organizations lack the skills to affect this kind of positive change. The leadership of change requires the adoption of core principles, disciplined execution, and the focus of leaders around the goal. Even under the best of circumstances change can be difficult. That is why it’s imperative to ensure a company’s leadership is well equipped to handle the challenges. |
Change Implementation: Implementing change requires vision, competent leaders, and discipline. Combining these three components ensures the success of your change initiative.
- Assessing an Organization’s Readiness for Change
- Building and Communicating the Case for Change
- Developing “Change Champions” throughout the Organization
Culture Migration: Shifting the culture is critical to most change efforts; however most companies fail to identify the prevailing culture. Leaders can change all the processes, procedures, structure and strategies they like, but if there is no effort to address the values, behaviors, and beliefs of the employees (the culture), then organizations quickly return to the status quo. Leaders should be conscious of culture; otherwise it will manage them, and ultimately define their success.
- Forging a New Culture – Values, Behaviors, and Beliefs
- Integrating Culture Change into Performance Management
- Aligning the Culture of a Global Leadership Team
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Communication: Empowering people to do their best requires good communications. Not only must leadership speak with clarity, but they must do it regularly and motivate people toward new challenges. This does not happen on its own, but requires a dedicated and disciplined effort.
- Developing a Customer Communication Plan
- Building an Employee Communication Platform
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Leadership Competency: Change efforts require a certain set of leadership competencies to be successful. Leaders must apply these skills on a regular basis to shepherd the change process and help people make the behavioral and emotional adjustments necessary. Building development plans around these competencies is a critical change element.
- Defining and Assessing Change Leadership Competencies
- Training the Leaders on Culture and the New Leadership Approach
- Upgrading the Core Skills of Global Leaders
Team Development: The business environment of most markets and industries requires companies to better leverage teamwork. Collaborating across functions, creative problem solving, and working in teams are vital parts of corporate life.
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