Top 5 reasons for building enterprise change capability today
Review the results from any staff survey over the decades and you’ll realise similar results—staff want better communication, visible leadership, connection to the organisation’s purpose and clarity in their roles. Diverse issues, right? Of course, but there’s a common thread that weaves throughout all these modern workforce challenges—change management.
Organisations are increasingly facing faster and more complex changes than ever before, highlighting the need for established and effective change capability.??
Here’s our top 5 reasons for establishing and embedding a change capability in your organisation:?
1. Demonstrates a human-led approach to changes within your organisation?
Establishing an enterprise-level change management capability demonstrates commitment and investment from the leadership team and that people matter.??
Supporting staff through new projects, enhancements or BAU in this complex world enhances an organisation's capacity to be an employee of choice in their industry—critical to recruiting and retaining a strong and capable workforce.?
2. Enables sponsors and senior leaders to be cohesive in their approach to new projects or changes?
Hands up if you’ve ever been given a direction from one decision maker, only to be told something else by another? An enterprise change management capability puts everyone on the same page. Leaders can collaboratively identify how they think about the establishment of new projects, the timing, resources, communications and training that may be required for their staff and stakeholders.?
3. Provides direct support to new projects??
Resources are tight, and you may not always have the perfect resource allocation for every project. Having a change capability provides on-hand support to say “Hey, we got you!” when you most need it to highlight opportunities or challenges.?
4. Builds the change management capability within your organisation???
Death, taxes and change. You can bet that your need for change management will be sustained into the future. There are many ways to start small to have big impacts—information sessions, building Communities of Practice, or developing artefacts and resources on your intranet. From little things big things grow!?
5. Supports your people??
From the bottom up and top down, staff at every level need support with change. Change capability supports staff to work together in alignment, manage expectations and puts transparent signals in the system that everyone understands.?
Our experienced team has worked across government and the private sector to build enterprise change capability from the ground up.
Reach out today to discuss these benefits and how we can partner with you to achieve your change potential.??
General Manager at Ora Advisory | 20+ years of experience transforming workplaces, people and culture | Program management, communication and governance specialist | Foodie and music is life!
1 年Yes!! People don't resist change, they resist being changed! (credit: Peter Senge). People-focused enterprise change capability is critical to a program's or project's success!