Essential steps for an efficient change management process

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Essential steps for an efficient change management process

Organizations are continuously facing in-process updates, new technology executions, reorganization, compliance initiatives, and customer service enhancements to attain market growth and cost-effectiveness targets. An effective change management process will be reduced the effect on organization and employees.

1. Clearly outline the transformation and line up it to business goals.

Many organizations fail to follow-up on this initial vital step. It's one thing to clear the change required and to conduct a critical review against organizational aims and performance goals to ensure the transformation will transfer in the correct direction strategically, financially, and ethically. This step support to fix the value of the change, which will calculate the effort and inputs that the organization should invest.

2. Analyze the impacts of change.

When an organization identifies what it needs to accomplish and why then determine the impacts of the change at several organizational levels. Analysis of the outcome of each business unit and how it reflected through the organizational structure to the individual. These statistics will be defined as the requirement of training and support to mitigate the effects.

3. Develop a communication strategy.

All employees should be engaged in the change process and must interconnect the changes to be implemented. Identify the most effective method of communication for the employees that will bring them on board. The communication strategy to include communication channels, changing timeline, key messages, and mediums which design to use.

4. Offer effective training.

After the change message communicates, employees must get to know they will obtain training in structured or informal methods to gain the required new knowledge and skills to implement the change effectively. Training should contain a set of micro-learning online modules or a combined learning method of face-to-face training or on-the-job training and mentoring.

5. Implement a support structure.

Providing a support structure is essential to assist employees to emotionally and practically adjust to the change and to build the proficiency of behaviors and technical skills needed to achieve desired business results. Some changes can result in redundancies or restructures, so it could consider providing support such as counseling services to help people navigate the situation. To help employees adjust to changes to how a role is performed, a mentor-ship or an open-door policy with management to ask questions as they arise could be set up.

6. Measure the change process.

Throughout the change management process, a structure should be implemented to measure the business impact of the changes and ensure that continued reinforcement opportunities exist to build proficiency and also evaluate the change management plan to determine its effectiveness.


References

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Comments

  1. shelton wijesundara4:16 PM, February 20, 2020

    The above mentioned six factors for an efficient change management are indeed key factors for its success. Your article is really helpful to gain a clear understanding of it.

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  2. chamila6:39 PM, February 20, 2020

    There can be many barriers in the concept of change manangement, and if mishandled there could be a great loss of money and time. The information you have mentioned above is very helpful for an effective change management.

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  3. Chainica Arndt10:16 AM, February 21, 2020

    Having an organizational structure design to ease creating new customer strategies through to implementation. – Customer management competencies clearly defined in all job descriptions for customer-facing staff, followed by competencies gap analyses undertaken in order to identify any shortcomings in key skills and competencies.

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  4. Lakshan Kulasooriya5:16 AM, February 22, 2020

    These steps are very important for a successful change management of an organization but it is very important to offer similar priority to receive feedback from the employees. Feedback helps for the HRM to identify the best suited method to implement for the change without leaving dissatisfied employees behind. If the talent/employees leave the organizations due to poor execution of changes, it is a loss that the change might not be able to full fill.

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  5. Virajt11:21 AM, February 22, 2020

    change management process will be much easier if you're to follow the above steps. If you can identify the needed change , communicate with your team and efficiently implement your strategy, you'll have a blueprint for change management. good article !

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  6. Shankari Dhivya12:31 PM, February 22, 2020

    Willingness to change is a strength,even if it is means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while

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  7. Anjanika Pothuhera3:37 PM, February 22, 2020

    The change the board procedure is the grouping of steps or exercises that a change supervisory group or task pioneer follow to apply change the executives to an adjustment so as to drive singular advances and guarantee the undertaking meets its planned results.

    Important article.

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  8. sanjeewani10:58 PM, February 22, 2020

    strategies must continuously change and , Each time an employee walks out the door, essential intimate knowledge ,

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  9. Nanda T4:01 PM, February 23, 2020

    Change Management Models have been developed based on research and experience on how to best manage change within an organization or in your personal life. Most Change Management Models provide a supporting process that can apply to your organization or personal growth.

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  10. Malaka Jayawardena4:05 PM, February 24, 2020

    Yes, above steps are easy guide for effective change management process. It will reduce the risk and help to guide organization for smooth change.

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