Developing and managing clear-cut, yet flexible change management program initiatives is essential to your Shared Services center’s short and long-term success.
By establishing strategic partnerships that encourage optimal communication and understanding between your faculty, departments, and stakeholders, change management can be effectively managed. By attending this session, you will learn how to:
Develop and maintain a flexible approach toward your change management programs – so to ensure continual improvement
Create the proper messaging, based upon your audience type and how to ensure message consistency
Develop and implement change management programs that will engage and excite your very diverse workforce
Incorporate a positive work environment that enhances work productivity and efficiency
Purpose: Information gathering on
Population
Natural interactions
Goals/Wishes – allows us to adapt
Time Management Key – should finish this slide at the 15 minute point
Emphasize point that these functions are “mission critical” and change management and communications critical in the start-up, maintenance and expansion phases
You want to get the benefits of both options (Decentralized and Centralized) out of Shared Services – Change Management is a key factor in making the transformation “stick”
Different communications take place in different projects, different cultures and different phases of projects. Adapt and be aware of the need to communicate differently. This will make the change management most effective
Case Study – Critical Components:
Company culture: Collaborative, independent
Staff Tenure: Very long tenure – 10-20 years +
Reactions to Prior Changes: Poor
History of Changes: Recent CEO Change (3 years) and organizational change (from independent product lines to major divisions)
Change desired for shared services, but not necessary for marketplace survival
What happened when one group set up shared service centers in offshore locations and “invited” business groups to participate in moving activities to these centers?
Short Answer: Nice spaces and staffing in new, low-cost locations with near-zero participation
How was this resolved?
Merger with another company
Culturally less “collaborative” and more focused on direction from leaders
Decision from leadership to implement
Marketplace driven necessity to cut costs in infrastructure
Design/Build/Shove it in Example….leads to resistance, and worse, failure or reversal. Opportunities lost
General understanding makes it appear that change and adaptation to change is linear…
But is it? What does it really look like?
It is not linear…and in fact each individual experiences it differently at different times
Some will never accept change…or embrace it
All effects are not eliminated – rather accelerated and mitigated – reducing the negative consequences.
1. Awareness. List the reasons you believe the change is necessary. Review these reasons and rate the degree to which the person you are trying to change is aware of the reasons or need to change (1 - 5 where 1 is no awareness and 5 is total awareness).
2. Desire. List the factors or consequences (good and bad) that create desire for this change. Consider these motivating factors, including the person’s conviction in these factors and the associated consequences. Rate his/her desire to change on a 1 - 5 scale.
3. Knowledge. List the skills and knowledge needed to support the change, including if the person has a clear picture of what the change looks like. Rate this person’s knowledge or level of training in these areas on a 1 to 5 scale.
4. Ability. Considering the skills and knowledge identified in the previous question, evaluate the person’s ability to perform these skills or act on this knowledge. Rate this person’s ability to implement the new skills, knowledge and behaviors to support the change on a 1 - 5 scale.
5. Reinforcement. List the reinforcements that will help to retain the change. Are incentives in place to reinforce the change and make it stick? Rate the reinforcements as helping support the change on a 1 to 5 scale.
The impact of not engaging can be significant and potentially derailing. I have seen a situation where a project sponsor would not engage with project critics. These critics were left to their own devices and despite being alerted to the dangers of doing so, formed an assumption that the project WOULD go ahead regardless and that they would come round eventually. The project went round in circles, the politics were rife.....and the project failed to get off the ground. The critics were successful in road blocking the project.
So, work closely with your potential road-blockers. These individuals could turn into some of your best advocates.
Really capitalise on the support you have and use it to build momentum.
Case Study – Critical Components:
Company culture: Collaborative, independent
Staff Tenure: Very long tenure – 10-20 years +
Reactions to Prior Changes: Poor
History of Changes: Recent CEO Change (3 years) and organizational change (from independent product lines to major divisions)
Change desired for shared services, but not necessary for marketplace survival
What happened when one group set up shared service centers in offshore locations and “invited” business groups to participate in moving activities to these centers?
Short Answer: Nice spaces and staffing in new, low-cost locations with near-zero participation
How was this resolved?
Merger with another company
Culturally less “collaborative” and more focused on direction from leaders
Decision from leadership to implement
Marketplace driven necessity to cut costs in infrastructure