Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management Insights

One way to successfully navigate change is having a change management function to support organisational adoption of project deliverables.

Change management ensures smoother transitions, engaged people, and better outcomes. It is essential for individuals and organisations because it guides how we prepare, equip, and support people to successfully adopt changes. The absence of effective change management can lead to significant costs and risks. We break down these consequences.

We recap articles that explore how AI and digital tools are reshaping the way organisations change.

Evaluating and transforming your operating model can lead to increased efficiency and, coupled with change activities, increased success.

Having a high performing team, and shifting a change into a receptive environment isn't the norm as often as we would like.

A look at understanding change management's vital role in supporting AI and digital adoption, driving agile transformations.

Organisations that are able to adapt, innovate, and withstand unexpected challenges are the ones that thrive in the face of uncertainty. Sure, you need resilient people to run a resilient organisation, but the organisation itself needs to have systems, processes, technology, design, ways of working and cultures that future-proof its sustainable success.

We appreciate your readership, and want to reward you this Saturday with our new Top 5 blog posts, rated in order of views.

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.

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.

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.