Category Archives: Change Management

Assess Your Readiness for Organizational Change

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Readiness for change is a function of both commitment to change and capability to change. If your people are not willing or able to change, the efforts to implement change will fall short of expectations. This “tip” offers a 28-item Change Readiness Assessment that addresses four categories: (1) Conviction; (2) Will; (3) Individual skill; and (4) Enablers. It also provides an Overall Readiness Factor. Try it and learn more about your readiness for change!

Three Principles that Might Change the Way you Manage Change

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Many organizations fail miserably when making change. Managing change is difficult and takes wisdom, experience and thoughtful analysis. More often than not, leaders charge into change without taking time to reflect, analyze and plan each step toward their goals. Renova Corp. offers three unique principles that impact the way you manage change and dramatically increase the probability for your success.

Managing Change: Create a Sense of Urgency

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When trying to change organizations, executives sometimes plunge ahead without establishing a sufficient sense of urgency. George Low, director of the Apollo 11 first landing on the moon, provides eight ways to increase the sense of urgency in your organization.

Managing Change: Getting Buy-In and Overcoming Resistance

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Approximately 55 percent of all projects fail because they do not have key stakeholder buy-in. This “tip” defines five ways you can achieve buy-in to make change initiatives a success.