How can a company use change management to minimize the resistance and maximize the acceptance of changes in business and technology?

Answer 1

By Prateek Dubey and Anubhav Srivastava

Of the companies that contact for a true team "building" event, the vast majority are looking for an activity to assist the team in managing change within their organization. With change, comes resistance. That's simply Newtons Third Law of Energy and Inertia. Unless an external force acts upon us, we like to stay on the course we are headed.

People are a major focus of organizational change management

Developing innovative ways to measure, motivate, and reward performance

Designing programs to recruit and train employees in the core competencies

Also involves analyzing and defining all changes facing the organization

Resistance Reason #1: Perceived Negative Outcome

Resistance Reason #2: Fear of More Work

Resistance Reason #3: Habits Must be Broken

Resistance Reason #4: Lack of Communication

Resistance Reason #5: Employee Rebellion

People don't generally resist change as much as they resist the implications being forced upon them.

Approach #1: Establish the Need for Change

Approach #2: Create a Clear, Compelling Vision that Shows People How Their Lives Will Improve

Approach #3: Go For True Performance Goals and Create Early Wins

Approach #4: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate…

Approach #5: Build a Strong, Committed, Guiding Coalition That Includes Top Management

Approach #6: Keep It Complex, Stupid

Approach #7: People Do Not Resist Their Own Ideas

Key tactics for change

Involve as many people as possible

Make constant change an expected part of the organizational culture

Tell everyone as much as possible about everything as often as possible, preferably in person