An early major change adoption challenge for the organisation is making sure the employee Understands the business reason for change as well as how it impacts them.
Change Management Adoption: Achieving employee change adoption in a major organisational change or transformation has mixed success, and the ROI benefits are not always realised. For change adoption to be successful, the leaders, sponsor, and change team should support the employees through the change transition by providing Awareness, Understanding, Involvement, Learning, and Motivation for the change.
Understanding: The second tactic is to provide greater insights into the change so that the wider context is understood. This is best done when communicated face-to-face at meetings and events.
The objective is to create an Understanding about why the organisation is making the change and how it will impact employees, as well as what is required from them. Building on an employee’s awareness of the change and explaining exactly what is going to change and how it will impact them helps employees understand and starts to prepare them for change involvement.
Understanding the Overall Change to the Organisation:
Employees will gain an understanding of the business case study and how it fits with the organisation’s strategy.
Change Impact to the Employee:
How the change will impact the way the employee works, their role, job description, department, etc. This will include an understanding of:
Changes to existing processes.
Changes to existing systems.
Support from the organisation’s leaders.
"For change adoption to be successful, support the employees through the change transition by providing Awareness, Understanding, Involvement, Learning, and Motivation to achieve sustainable change and benefits realisation"
About this book:
Organisations are operating in an environment of rapid change and transformation where success is dependent on employees adopting the new technology or way of working to improve operating performance and achieve the targeted return on investment (ROI). The fact that successfully implementing the change or transformation is critical to the future viability of the organisation is sometimes not enough.
The Leadership of Change® Volume 5, focuses on how to achieve employee change adoption in a major organisation change or transformation using the AUILM® Employee Change Adoption Model. The AUILM® Model outlines the five key life cycle stages the employee goes through in the change transition. The model helps change teams to understand how employees tend to react during change and then supports them through the change, so resistance is minimised and adoption is maximised. For change adoption to be successful, employees should be supported through the change transition, being provided with Awareness, Understanding, Involvement, Learning, and Motivation so the organisation can achieve sustainable change and benefits realisation. Change implementation focuses on aligning employees, processes, systems and leaders, it is also supported by the a2B Change Management Framework® (a2BCMF®).
Further Reading: Change Management Adoption - Leadership of Change Volume 5.
Peter consults, speaks, and writes on the Leadership of Change®.
He works exclusively with boards, CEOs, and senior leadership teams to prepare and align them to effectively and proactively lead their organisations through change and transformation.
For insights on navigating organisational change, feel free to reach out at Peter.gallagher@a2B.consulting or schedule a free consultation
Peter F. Gallagher is a leadership guru, change management global thought leader, organisational change authority, international corporate conference speaker, 15X author, and C-level change leadership coach.
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