Three Simple Truths to Change Management

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Too many organizations neglect a critical step in their digital transformation, technology transition, or implementation work. Enabling and sustaining CHANGE. Let’s talk 3 SIMPLE TRUTHS to CHANGE MANAGEMENT to ensure all your hard work STICKS.

How early, did you say? That’s right; you can’t start early enough. If you’re stalling because you don’t have a complete picture, just state what you know as soon as you know it. Tell people when they expect to learn more. Surprises are good when they come in the form of birthday parties, not when something you use or do every day is going away.

Maybe your internal communications or marketing team is helping with a change communication plan. Or maybe you put together your own change management task force; however you assemble the team, be sure someone is taking the view of those impacted. Who needs to know what? And as far as this change goes, what’s in it for them?

Stop the vicious cycle of #throwaway work. There’s insurance for this, and it’s called CHANGE ENABLEMENT.

You have a designated implementation team, right? Why would you risk the outcome of your project by not having a designated change team who OWNS the sustained outcomes of your transformation or implementation work?

Did you know?

Leapgen is a digital transformation company shaping the future of work by utilizing DESIGN THINKING in our approach to Digital Workforce Experience.

Design thinking for employee experience needs to consider these elements:

1. Capturing feedback in the natural flow of work
2. Ability to do something about the feedback received
3. Embedding measurement of experience in the right place

Leapgen – HR Innovation Partner – delivering HR transformations for a consumerized workforce experience

Leapgen is a consulting and education firm that works with HR organizations globally to challenge established thinking, and help make the right decisions about people, process and technology while shaping your future of work – from strategy to designing and deploying new processes and technologies

Special thanks to Abreon for partnering with us on 3 SIMPLE TRUTHS to CHANGE MANAGEMENT.

About Ryan Malkes:

Ryan Malkes is an advisor with more than 10 years of experience as an HR consultant and a learning & development practitioner. His passions lie in helping organizations reimagine their digital workforce experiences and deliver on their employee value proposition. His engagements routinely include talent management strategy, design work, organizational development, training and change enablement. Much of Ryan’s recent work has been tied to the deployment and/or optimization of leading cloud HR technology. He holds two ServiceNow certifications – System Administrator and Technical Consultant.

He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, one adorable toddler, and a second guaranteed-to-be-adorable future Leaper on the way.