Improved Skills and Leadership Make Change Happen

Written by Voss Graham on August 20, 2009. Posted in Change Management

So now you are ready to make change happen in your organization. What have you done to improve the skills and knowledge of the people who will be asked to make the change projects successful?

Here is the truth -using more experienced and skilled change managers can reduce the risks of having a troubled or unsuccessful change project. So again, what are doing to enhance the abilities of the change management teams?

A great place to start is the leadership of the change teams. Effective change leadership is critical to the success of the teams. It is an advantage to create dedicated positions of change leaders within your organization – similar to the project management leaders. The project management leader is more common today than in previous decades. The same thing will happen to the change management leadership position in coming years – be an early adopter and gain a competitive advantage.

While having a dedicated change management leader will increase the success factor by a minimum of 20%, an even more important factor is top management sponsorship and close support of change management projects. In fact, top management support is the single most important factor related to successful projects. Top leaders must have a clear understanding of the importance of change and the advantages the organization will attain using a systematic change management system.

Take a moment to reflect upon change projects within the past two years at your organization. What worked and why? What did not work and why? If you take the time to examine the success and failures of these change initiatives – top management support or non-support will have a major relationship to the level of success.

What can you do as a leader to show support for change? That is the major question for you today.

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Voss Graham

CEO / Sr Business Advisor at InnerActive Consulting Group Inc

Voss Graham is an Organizational Architect with 30+ years of experience designing sustainable business growth for organizations of all sizes. Creating the Strategic Focus with the Executive Leadership Teams, he uses Systems & Process to ensure the Drivers for Business Growth are Executed at the Highest Levels. Voss is available as a Speaker for your conferences or company meetings - contact him at 901-757-4434 or use the LinkedIn or Facebook direct messages.

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Voss Graham

Voss Graham is an Organizational Architect with 30+ years of experience designing sustainable business growth for organizations of all sizes. Creating the Strategic Focus with the Executive Leadership Teams, he uses Systems & Process to ensure the Drivers for Business Growth are Executed at the Highest Levels. Voss is available as a Speaker for your conferences or company meetings - contact him at 901-757-4434 or use the LinkedIn or Facebook direct messages.