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Assessing Change Management Effectiveness: Essential Metrics

Epicflow

No matter what change initiatives are, they must bring tangible results. It may seem the outcomes of effective change management are obvious – if positive transformations have happened, the process was effective. . Defining Change Management Effectiveness: Different Dimensions. Change management performance .

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All Management Is Change Management

Harvard Business

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment. If you resist and defy change, your company is not long for this world. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not.

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Dealing with Ambiguity at Work: 1 Tool You Need

Organizational Talent Consulting

Role ambiguity increases non-productive conflict and employee burnout even when a team has good working relationships. An essential part of organizational consulting is helping individuals and teams gain clarity during change and dealing with role ambiguity created by the changes. This likely goes without saying.

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Contractor, Consultant, or Both: It Matters!

Successful Independent Consulting

Let me give you an example. Recently I met a sharp, professional woman with about 15 years of experience as a project manager and change management specialist. For the last few years, she’s been designing and implementing change management efforts for multinational companies.

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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

Employees of major consulting firms like McKinsey and Accenture are called consultants, as are some in-house specialists deployed in an advisory role to work with teams outside of their own reporting structure (for example, an internal change management consultant). We are independent contractors rather than employees.

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Love your Organizational Problems, not Just your Solutions

Kates Kesler

A common example is an executive team that delays setting clear investment priorities. An example is adopting technological trends in response to fear of being behind competitors, instead of iteratively testing over time. Start the change management process. Surface good ideas. Create shared understanding.