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Approach to Change

How is your change initiative going? Are managers and employees singing from the same hymn sheet or are you seeing constant bickering and recriminations? Are positive results emerging for all to see or is your organization’s performance going backwards? Is your program meeting targets and deadlines or is money and time being continually sucked into a black hole?

Whether you are implementing a new local accounting system in your department or your organization is embarking on a comprehensive culture change program, it makes sense to take a breath and review how you are traveling. Here is a quick eighteen-point checklist that you can use on your current change project. You can either answer the questions on your own, or better still, get your team in to discuss the answers as a group.

The following questions are based on the CHANGE Approach © to managing change in organizations. This approach recognizes that a disciplined process is required for leading and managing change, from the initial good idea to eventual institutionalization of the new way of working. These six phases of the change process are:

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r is your organization’s performance going backwards? Is your program meeting targets and deadlines or is money and time being continually sucked into a black hole?

Whether you are implementing a new local accounting system in your department or your organization is embarking on a comprehensive culture change program, it makes sense to take a breath and review how you are traveling. Here is a quick eighteen-point checklist that you can use on your current change project. You can either answer the questions on your own, or better still, get your team in to discuss the answers as a group.

The following questions are based on the CHANGE Approach © to managing change in organizations. This approach recognizes that a disciplined process is required for leading and managing change, from the initial good idea to eventual institutionalization of the new way of working. These six phases of the change process are:

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tment or your organization is embarking on a comprehensive culture change program, it makes sense to take a breath and review how you are traveling. Here is a quick eighteen-point checklist that you can use on your current change project. You can either answer the questions on your own, or better still, get your team in to discuss the answers as a group.

The following questions are based on the CHANGE Approach © to managing change in organizations. This approach recognizes that a disciplined process is required for leading and managing change, from the initial good idea to eventual institutionalization of the new way of working. These six phases of the change process are:

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can either answer the questions on your own, or better still, get your team in to discuss the answers as a group.

The following questions are based on the CHANGE Approach © to managing change in organizations. This approach recognizes that a disciplined process is required for leading and managing change, from the initial good idea to eventual institutionalization of the new way of working. These six phases of the change process are:

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oach recognizes that a disciplined process is required for leading and managing change, from the initial good idea to eventual institutionalization of the new way of working. These six phases of the change process are:

Create tension
Articulate why change needs to happen and why it needs to happen within the planned timeframe.

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Harness support
Get on board the key decision-makers, resource holders and those with the potential to subvert the change process.

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Articulate goals
Define in specific and measurable terms the desired organizational outcomes.

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Nominate roles
Assign responsibility to specific individuals for the various tasks and outcomes.

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Grow capability
Build organizational systems and people competencies necessary for affecting the change.

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Entrench changes
Institutionalize the change to make it “the way we do things around here”.

The checklist questions act as a quick diagnostic by surveying the critical activi