Who needs Change Management?

Nowadays it seems like managing change is all everybody does. I am sure you have read that ‘change is the only constant’ and all that. Wherever you look its seems to be closing in. More often than not it looks menacing. This is because as humans we tend to prefer the familiar to the unfamiliar.

Truth is that change comes in many formats, but it is mostly unfamiliar as it tends to be unexpected and needed as opposed to planned and wanted. Be it as it may, once the need or desire to change becomes a reality one has to deal with it fast.  Once it gets going we can hardly keep up with it.

So how do you go about managing change?

Lots of theoretical models are available but ultimately, as Hegel famously said, there is only one way to learn how to swim: to get wet. May this blog be your swimming pool so you can learn about and try out change management experientially.

Via this blog I wish to offer a number of strategies, tested over 13 years as a change management consultant, coach and trainer, to help you manage your change-related issues in the workplace.

What kind of change are we talking about here? Anything that matters to you right now:

- Is a new process or technology rocking your work routine and you are struggling to cope?

- Are you confronted with a new organizational strucuture, a new difficult co-worker, a tough boss or have been told you need to be a better team-member?

- Have you been tasked with managing a change initiative of which most people don’t seem to care about and don’t know how to get them onboard?

- Are you struggling to find purpose in your current professional path or are unable to keep focus and motivation?

I am eager to know about the change you are facing so that we can review what change management strategies and tips you may consider adopting.

For those of you who know the famous comedy show ‘Frasier’, about a Seattle radio psychiatrist helping his listeners on air, you’ll remember he started his show with what I’ll make my opening line: “I’m listenting!”. I am offering to be your online Change Management Coach. With no access to a radio station, just yet, I suggest we start with this blog. My bimonthly entries, every other Wednesday, will relate to practical case studies on how to manage your change needs/wants. So feel free to share your change challenge by posting a comment on this blog or via this link to my website contact form. Effectively I am reaching out to you to help me co-author these blog entries.

What change is on your mind? What are you doing about it? What is working and what isn’t? What could you be doing more or differently? This is change management coaching blogging.

 I’m listening! It’s about your change challenge.