Change Management
Manager’s Guide to Change Management
Forget Your Knowledge About Change Management
Here below I’m going to share steps and intellectual preparations that can be followed individually as a leader or candidate for being a leader in your carrier;
Before going to To-Do List, We should know the meaning of Change Management.
What is Change Management? It covers achievement orientation, endurance, flexibility, innovative thinking, active listening, team leadership, project management, strategic thinking, coaching for development and feedback skills.
• Try to look at every situation you encounter from different perspectives.
Remember that there are various and possible solutions for each issue and you should consider more than one approach before making a decision.
• Be creative in finding methods that will be effective in achieving goals and overcoming obstacles.
Learn to see obstacles as resources to develop your creativity and achieve difficult and complex goals.
Know that obstacles can always come your way, and think about flexible and effective solutions you can use from your past experiences.
• Do something that has never been done before under new conditions.
• Evaluate every suggestion or idea from your employees and give them feedback. Support the implementation of those who will make a difference.
• Consider what you need to do differently in order to do your work better, faster and less costly, and identify areas for improvement.
• To identify aspects of your business that need improvement, you can use a technique of repeatedly asking the problem “why” to identify the root cause of a problem.
Write the problem first, then ask the “why” question and write the answer. Ask the answer “why” again, repeating this process until the root cause is reached.
• From time to time, organize “brainstorming” sessions in the group and try to come up with creative ideas and solutions.
• Observe people doing similar work as you, listen to their success stories / best practice examples and adapt them to your own business.
• Ask your experienced colleagues for feedback on how you can improve your innovative thinking.
• Inform and encourage your employees to understand the company’s vision and strategies, and to constantly question their work in terms of compliance with these strategies.
• Review the activities carried out within the unit regularly every month in terms of compliance with the strategies and make the necessary revisions accordingly. In these meetings, highlight the contributions of your employees to the unit targets.
• Follow the domestic and international changes in your industry and their reasons, and hold sharing meetings with different groups about the opportunities for change that will strengthen the company’s position.
• Create an opportunity to talk about professional organizations, industry opportunities, good practices, trends with a leader whose opinion you value.
• Develop scenarios with your team about what you can do in terms of customers and industry conditions in five years.
• Discuss how you can contribute more to the vision of the organization by using a method (meeting, workshop, survey, etc.) in which you will ensure the active participation of the employees.
• Try to create a long-term and comprehensive development strategy, taking into account market opportunities, market competition.
• Try to come up with different ideas for creating and developing a strategy.
• Delegate your day-to-day operational work to team members to develop the strategy.
• Try looking at the problem from the outside.
Try to consider divergent views or data as a whole, bring new perspectives to old ideas, and get new ideas from other fields. Examine everything in as much detail as possible before getting to the heart of the matter.
• Try to follow publications with creative business ideas about your business and jot down any new ideas that come to mind or hear.
Evaluate your ideas first, then share your appropriate suggestions with your manager.
• Find out how a colleague in the same role does the job and think about how it could be done better together.
Support each other in improving aspects that need improvement.
• Follow the innovations in the world, in the economy, in your sector and in your own business (following publications, signing up for websites, holding benchmark meetings).
• Request from your manager to hold sharing meetings within the team where a different topic is brought up each month.
Follow the publications related to your own business area and share what you think will be useful with the relevant people.
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