Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management Insights

Strategic alignment is a deliberate process of linking values with overarching transformation goals and showing where change fits in.

For anyone who loves a laugh around the office, you're probably not going to the profession of Change Management  for your next three-minute set. It is time we fixed that, because change management does not have to be dull and daunting. By infusing creativity and enthusiasm into change management activities, you get the kind of audience engagement you have been hoping for. You might not quite be ready to deliver a stand-up routine on why replacing a critical system is a jolly

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.

Is it finally time to shake things up and revamp how we handle change in the workplace?

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.

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.

Change management must be solving the right problem in order to be effective.

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.

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.