Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management Insights

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.

This Saturday Catch-up is all about articles published in May that we think you'll enjoy, but may not have seen.

Increase the likelihood of realising the benefits you set out to achieve by planning for change sustainability.

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?”

Stories engage the mind. Through stories, we're often able to convey a greater truth than through a direct presentation on a topic.

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

In this Saturday Catch-up, forget a trip to Bunnings, read up instead on Matae Change Workspace Tool.

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.

Take a look at the theme of staying positive and its relationship to change management.

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.

Articles with a clue in the title, like lists, are often just what we need - a little bit advice truncated into the top 3 things to know.