How to Manage Change Saturation
Organizational change is increasing in frequency and volume. We should expect and manage continuous change, so it does not take a toll on our people.
Change saturation occurs when the people in your organization cannot absorb the number of changes you're implementing. This leads to employee stress, burnout, and attrition.
Here are a few suggestions for leaders and organizations to recognize saturation, assess the impacts, and find solutions.
1. Understand your organization's capacity for change.
Consider your organization's culture, recent history with change initiatives, and your change capability.?
2. Inventory all change initiatives, gauge the change impact of each one, and evaluate the organization's capacity to manage the changes effectively.
Identify all the changes in your organization and the impacted stakeholders.
3. Manage your change portfolio.
Prioritize the projects based on your organization's ability to sponsor, lead, manage and sustain the change over time.
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These simple suggestions help you develop a holistic view, allocate sufficient resources, engage stakeholders, reduce stress and frustration, and evolve your organization’s change muscle. More importantly, the suggestions should help you manage your projects to ensure organizational changes do not drain your company.
Managing change saturation is easier with an experienced consulting partner. Contact us to learn how we can help.
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Consultant at Ignite Consulting LLC
2 年I like the suggestion to view all projects on a page (or wall). The holistic view of the projects, timing and audiences help us wrap our minds around how much change we are facing.
Pilates Instructor & Author of the Little Books of Series
2 年It helps to list all changes, big and small. Many small change initiatives can add up -which can overwhelm employees quickly.
Delivering programs that drive behavioral change.
2 年We routinely find our clients facing this challenge, good insights.
Director of Operations at Ignite Consulting & Former Co-Founder at Nomad Ventures
2 年An effective way to monitor change fatigue is to provide feedback loops for your teams such as surveys or one-on-ones. Nurture a culture of honest communication so you can understand when employees begin to feel overwhelmed.