Innovative Management Approaches - Change Management
Do you see plenty of unfinished initiatives around at workplace? That’s because starting something new is easy, while making it stick is not. With these 6 steps, you can radically increase your success rate.
A nagging problem that many organizations face is that they start a lot of new
initiatives, but complete and really adopt only a few of them. While some
initiatives do see the luminating success, the rest gets stuck somewhere along
the process, clogging up, eating resources and blocking new initiatives.
To break through this resource-consuming and frustrating cycle, the following
six steps will help.
1. Re-evaluate your goals
Set or revive your strategic priorities and define what you wish to achieve
with the initiative and why you want to start it in the first place.
2. Don’t manage it all yourself
Share responsibilities with others to get them on board from day 1 and share
the workload. Clarify and manage who is responsible for what.
3. Build the hype
Create a continuous multi-channel communication flow causing excitement and
buzz. Start a fire and keep it burning.
4. Incentivize
Make it attractive for people to join. Don’t use monetary incentives but use
what really motivates them: autonomy, learning and contribution.
5. Schedule check-ups
Follow-up continuously and regularly, e.g. on a monthly or weekly basis to make
the initiative part of people’s day-to-day routine.
6. Don’t give up
Introducing something new takes time and asks for patience and persistence.
Keep your focus on it, until it really sticks.
Is it rocket science? Not at all.
Does it work? Of course.
Do you work this way? That’s the question…
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