Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management Insights

Change encourages organisations and teams to develop a positive balance between trust, vision, values and tension.

While supporting an outsourcing program, I found Sales and Finance in stalemate, passively hoping for system changes to fix their process handover. This "War Story" illustrates Kotter’s Accelerator: Enabling Action by Removing Barriers. The fix: I coordinated workshops, securing agreements on new responsibilities and designing five infographics to simplify complex delegation changes, driving a successful go-live.

Explore the power of thought leadership in professional development in change management, transformation, and agility.

Through change management techniques, you can deal with the downsides of change and create the brighter future that matches your vision.

The application of change management frameworks is evolving along with business challenges and becoming ever more complex.

Change Managers often feel discouraged when they're unable to produce cohesive, smooth, and positive change across the entire bell curve of stakeholders. As change practitioners, mastering change resilience is an ongoing journey that requires continuous learning and adaptation. By honing your skills in change management, change leadership, and stakeholder management, you can create a ripple effect of resilience within your organisation.

In the past you may have watched from the sidelines as the project team built a new solution, engaging when requested.

As a Change Manager or Leader, it's our job to ensure we support our change agents with the right tools and approaches.

There's currently much pressure on our organisational leaders, with global economic strain, new modes of business, changing expectations from customers, conflict and unrest affecting markets, and rapid technology adoption - not least of which is the non-stop upscaling we're seeing in AI technologies. As leaders, it's crucial to navigate these changes with a strategic mindset that fosters growth and progress.

Investors, partners, customers and our product design team all demand an answer to the question “what is the problem you are solving?”

The ability to navigate change with empathy and foster diversity and inclusion is paramount for the effective leadership of transformation.

Over-promising isn't just a supplier-side problem, the client needs to be complicit in believing the selling points.

It's not easy to give up your place or entitlement if the status quo is on your side. So why embrace diversity? Here's a few good reasons.

While I might want more automation of data and views, not all change managers are alike, and no two assignments are exactly the same.

Cultivating meaningful connections contributes to overall well-being and individual success especially during times of change.

Demonstrating short term wins is a great way to help people understand that the change program is serious about delivering.

As we look at how Matae Change Workspace handles Change Activities, we need to also understand what it considers a change activity to be.

In those moments when we feel inspired by someone or something, we can feel like everything suddenly makes sense, and we're motivated to take on the world. Inspiration is a powerful force that transcends generations, cultures, and boundaries. Just as you were once inspired by someone, you too can be a source of inspiration for someone else. And that person could be the person who changes the world.

Workplace community is a concept that can enhance employee wellbeing, and long-term strategic advantage.

In a change management tool we want to understand the people involved: who they are, how they fit together and what support they need.