Creating Leverage for Change
A Process for Implementing Sustainable ChangeTaking a new direction is always hard, but keeping everyone committed and productive while changing course is even harder. The implementation of new strategies, structures, processes and/or technologies in your company are prime examples of major change that can affect the way you do business. Such changes affect everyone – in manufacturing, distribution, customer service, finance and planning – and the complexities of process reengineering, job redirection, and cultural change can undermine your entire enterprise.
To help you make the turn, and get the most from targeted change, Dirigo Consulting Group brings a proven approach called Creating Leverage for Change. We have the experience you need to help managers and project teams effectively plan and take action to deal with the impacts of change on the processes and people involved. With our approach, your employees will understand: - How to adjust to new ways of working, making the most of different concepts of job responsibility and performance.
- How to work with others across multiple functions and geographical units.
- How to develop new professional skills that can be transferred across functions.
- How to participate in decision-making that is aligned across the company to improve performance and create value.
- How to take advantage of new access to information from one end of the business stream to the other.
Creating Leverage for Change helps you get the business results you want by addressing organizational and people issues during periods of crucial change. Our consulting team brings the tools and techniques required for implementing the change and maintaining the results over time, helping you to maximize your return on invested capital. Critical Success Factors for Sustaining ResultsCreating Leverage for Change offers a systematic and integrated approach that allows you to maximize the ongoing results from your “change project” by focusing on a set of vital success factors that addresses the critical people and organizational issues needed to successfully leverage change: - Leadership Behavior
- Workforce Commitment
- Two-Way Communication
- Capability Development
- Organizational Architecture
- Measurements and Rewards
- Employee Transition
Using these lenses, the change team can diagnose current problems, determine future requirements, and develop a customized approach for moving from the present to the future. The deliverables that help you close the gaps include: - A process for aligning the leadership team and key stakeholders
- An infrastructure for leading and managing the implementation
- A program to engage and sustain employee commitment
- A communication plan, with effective feedback mechanisms
- A redesigned organizational structure with clear roles and responsibilities
- A plan for professional skills development in technology and communication
- A migration plan for getting people into new situations and jobs
- A performance management and reward system
Benefits of Creating Leverage for ChangeOur approach can help make your change implementation a success. Following are some of the results we have achieved for clients: - Highly motivated employees whose commitment enables them to make significant contributions throughout the project
- Well-informed employees who understand what is expected, and how they can move the project forward
- Systems and structures that support new technologies and new business processes, leading to improved business results
- Planned migration from the old workplace to the new, which is accepted and implemented swiftly and smoothly
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