Change Management Process

An organizational chanage management process includes techniques such as:

• Creating a change management strategy
• Engaging senior managers as change leaders
• Building awareness of the need to change
• Developing skills and knowledge to support the change
• Helping employees move through the transition
• Practicing methods to sustain the change

It has becoming increasingly important for managers to act not only in their traditional roles as managers, but also as transformational leaders which is a role that focuses on guiding people through the changes.

Managers should check that people affected by the change agree with, or at least understand, the need for change, have a chance to decide on how the change will be managed, and to be involved in the planning and implementation of the change. Conducting work-shops, staff-surveys and face-to-face communications will be practical techniques to handle sensitive aspects of organizational change management. Therefore it is important to focus on management training; empathy and facilitative capability as the most priority areas.

To make a change successful in the basic level each and every individual should support to the change. Therefore they should posses following characteristics:

• Awareness of the need for change
• Desire to participate and support the change
• Knowledge on how to change
• Ability to implement required skills and behaviours
• Reinforcement to sustain the change

Many research have found out that well trained employees who are enriched with positive attitudes and most importantly organizations’ successful transformational leaders will make organizations successful on their change.