Change Management Errors

Change Management Errors

1. Too Much complacency

   • No sense of Urgency
   • 'Too Much Past Success
   • Lack visible Crisis
   • low Performance standards
   • Insufficient Feedback form External constintuencies

2. Failure to Build sufficiently powerful guiding Coalition

   • short term selfish goals always win
   • countervailing forces undermine effort
   • failure to recognize how hard change can be

3. Underestimate Power of Vision

   • vision helps direct, align and inspire actions
   • resistance emerges without vision
   • without vision, decision making can desolve in to interminable debate
   • Whenever you cannot describe the The Change Problem and Its Solution  driving a change initiative in five minutes or less and get a reaction that signifies both understanding and interest, you are in for trouble.

4. Undercommunicating Vision by factor of 10/100/1000

   • Nothing undermines efforts more than lack of communication

5. allowing obstacle to block the new vision

   • mental roadblocks are too great
   • narrow job description
   • compensation or performance appraisal issues
   • supervisors who won't adapt
   • inconsistent demands from Supervisors

6. failure to create short term wins

   • too passive -hope instead of create
   • no wins with in 6-18 months

7. Declare victory too soon

   • until tightly integrated culture, changes are succeptible to regression
   • celebration stops momentum
   • change is halted too soon

8. change is not anchored firmly into culture of org

   • If not anchored in social norms and shared values, they are susceptible to regression
   • dont show how specific behaviors and attitudes improve performance
   • Need sufficient time for next gen managers to personify the approach