Organisations need to tackle both internal and external changes continuously, but smart organisations prepare themselves for surprises and obstacles to reduce or eliminate the damage from unwelcome changes.
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It is important to manage change professionally by understanding how change impacts employees and the organisation, and how it can be managed successfully.
Building Support
There are few people who like change, but flexibility must be cultivated in employees to mentally prepare them for change. Building support and combating unwanted changes together helps to develop team spirit and allegiance to the organisation. Change management requires cooperation and assistance from others. Managers need change management training to understand the impact of changes on employees, use strategies that allow employees to accept change, build resiliency, gain support of employees, and build team spirit.
Handling both planned and unplanned changes needs support from employees. Preparing, planning and acting to make the best of changes is essential for any organisation to survive and grow.
Training the Leadership
To manage change efficiently, the top management of an organisation needs to have expertise in change management. It requires specific skills and understanding to prepare and plan for changes. As it is the leaders that direct employees, it becomes essential for them to understand and have the skills to enable employees to manage change.
Leadership training is an important part of change management because a leader influences and guides employees. A great leader involves, guides and prepares employees for obstacles. It is the qualities of trust, empathy, understanding and respect that make employees work together as a team to bring out the best despite a difficult situation.
Share Information and Plans
Change management involves sharing of information so that every employee that will be affected by a change prepares, understands and handles the change better. Sharing of information and/or plans also helps employees to trust their superiors and feel important. Human resource management is an important part of change management, as it is the employees that must either adapt to good changes or battle against bad ones.
Build Strategy
A strategy for change management must be built and shared with the employees. Even if the strategy is complex, it must be shared with employees in a simple manner to help with easy understanding and implementation. Sharing the vision, the ultimate outcome of the collective efforts, is essential to motivate employees to focus on fulfilling that aim. The strategy acts as a guideline for the management to choose the skills and the expertise needed to fulfil the goals.
Managing change requires a method, as well as the use of specific tools and techniques. Organisations that are trained in change management and human resource management smoothly and efficiently handle both expected and unexpected changes to achieve consistent growth.
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