Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management Insights

Organisations can establish a virtuous circle in which one good implementation leads to ongoing positive change experiences in future.

Bringing people along on the change journey really means understanding their needs and meeting the most serious one first.

Rounding out our series on Dr. Kotter's 8 Accelerators, we come to our final blog post in War Stories with Kotter: Sustain Acceleration

Planning strategies to mitigate change impact is at the heart of well-managed change.

Change readiness is the proactive approach to anticipating, preparing for, and adapting to change effectively. Depending at which point in time you're approaching an organisation to consider readiness, this term might mean slightly different things.

It is uncertain when it happened, but change has become an inevitable component of our lives. Learning to navigate these shifts with grace and agility is essential. This is where change management steps in, not just as an effective business strategy, but as a crucial life skill. We explore how applying core principles—like a growth mindset, setting clear goals, and building resilience—can empower you to optimise personal productivity, enhance adaptability, and transform your

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.