Readiness for Change...

Are you an employee ready to change? Employees are more open to support change if they are ready to make changes. This means that they believe in the changes, have the time and energy to invest in the changes, and your organization is ready to support the changes.

Once, a Manager sent an email asking about how his staff felt about starting a continuous improvement process. The immediate response from several who have real world experience, was that the organization was not ready for such a process. They’re right. The company is making the transition from tactical to strategic and that is taking up all of the available energy.

You can assess the readiness of your organization to participate in change, too. How..???

Answer questions such as these. What is the level of trust within your organization? Do people feel generally positive about their work environment. Do you have a history of open communication? Do you share financial information?

These factors have a tremendous impact on people’s acceptance of and willingness to change. If you can start building this positive and supportive environment prior to the change, you have a great head start on the change implementation.

People in general feel very disturbed and scared from changes in their life and as a job in a company for most of us take over 40% of our lives, the right way to implement changes should be starting with awarness of the employees.

But how to raise the awarnesses of employees?? What I have learn until now in my experience are the followings tips:

- Spreading the group charter of corporate behavior, do it through manuals, informations, communications and adapt every single message it is coming from top to down and viceversa to them.

- Compliance Education, there are a lot of things which we do in our routine but we even don't know why we do them... imagine when it comes to change those routine with other brand new routine... People that doesnt't know about the meaning of the previous should adapt to the new... it sounds very funny, but in most of the corporation today it is like this. If you wanna mke differently, be sure that the level of education is kept high.

- Dialogue level, how much intense is the dialogue between the people in the herarchy?? Coaching, Mentorship, Counseling and Climate initiative are in place?

At the end of the day we can call all those basic steps I have mentioned, Total Quality Management....