Change or Not
Posted by: Chahinkapa in Amazon Books, Consultants, Federal Government, Implementation, Leadership, People Soft 9.1 HCM, PeopleSoft Finance, PeopleSoft HCM, Project Management, Project Planning, Questions, success, Training, Training and DevelopmentHow many people do you know who live through change programs but never change. they are survivors who maintain the status quo with a vigor. These are the people leaders must convince one by one. They are comfortable and do not want to be uncomfortsble. The leaders in the organization must understand that the usual operational models may not work. Change cannot be done piecemeal but must be a highly coordinated project that permeates the entire organiization.
Change that is implemented in pieces is doomed to fail just as systems implemented in pieces often fail due to lack of integration. Change must be managed as dynamic like balancing a mobile. If you move one part of a mobile it impacts everything else and often throws it off balance. Implementations and change are similar, you must always look at the entire picture not your little corner of the world. The “What’s in it for me” message is needed to be answered but only in the context of what’s in it for the organization and the success of the organization that includes me. The change message must be the same throughout the organization and every communication must deliver the same message that relates change to vision.
Messages must b clear, consistent and endlessly repeated and even then the message may not get through to the survivor who manages to get through the changes in the organization without ever changing. Ultimately, that one person can defeat an entire project and have an impact on the organization. They are the one piece in the mobile who remains the same when all others change and the result is an imbalance in the project or the organization.
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