Activating Organizational Change that Lasts
Many times a week I come across blogs that speak about how to change yourself, eliminate bad habits and learn new ways to do things. How much more difficult it is then for you to be tasked to change a team, a department or a whole company.The corporate world and even nations are littered with shipwreck examples of organizations that failed to change. Think Nokia, Blackberry and Kodak as well known examples.Achieve+Forum (formerly AchieveGlobal) has conducted in depth research on the obstacles to organizational change and the 10 high impact actions needed for leaders to successfully lead, inspire teams and organizations to change. Feedback from 59% of American and 63% of global respondent managers and leaders interviewed simply agreed:
“The ability to change is an organization’s main competitive advantage”
At the end of this short blog, you can download our research report on organizational change “Creating a Change Capable Workforce.” Let’s review the main findings.Here are the major obstacles of organizational change for United States and the international companies surveyed.
Action Item: Survey your own managers using this list of obstacles to gain insight into why activating lasting changes may be difficult in your corporate culture.Achieve+Forum analyzed their primary and secondary organizational research, reflecting on three decades of experience in helping global organizations to change, they found that the engine for change—the energy, drive, and willingness to change—lay not primarily in any change methodology, but in the sum of leadership behaviors. The research identified 10 key practices that embody these “success change” behaviors—high-impact actions that separate them from mediocrity or failure. When leaders at every level apply these practices, their organization becomes change-capable.These 10 recommended high impact practices are grouped under the three “hallmarks” of a change-capable organization:
- Activate capability
- Communicate for results
- Monitor mechanics and mood
The 10 high impact practices of activating successful organizational change for found in our research report “Creating a Change Capable Workforce.” Download this research report and our workshop for “Activating Change” at the CXO, manager and individual contributor levels.Have a great week remembering...
“Your Ability to Positively Change will Determine Your Success in Life.”
