Change Management: Myth and Reality

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Change Management Myth and Reality

• Sanda Ionescu
• www.theculturebroker.co.uk
• http//sandaionescu.wordpress.com

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Failure Rates

• 2/3 of change initiatives fail
• 3 types of failure early, mid, late
• Rational vs. irrational

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Change Models

• Kotters 8 steps
• Lewin defreeze/freeze phases
• Kubler Ross change curve/grief cycle
• Prosci ADKAR
• Beckhards Transition Model
• Longaker 4 stages of bereavement
• Conner managing at the speed of change

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Myth 1

• We are experiencing an unprecedented pace of
  change

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Myth 2

• Focus on the solutions, not the problems.

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Myth 3

• Change starts at the top we all need a visionary
  leader.

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Myth 4

• Listen to the people and trust them to do the
  right thing.

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Myth 5

• Smaller changes
• are easier
• to assimilate
• chunk it down.

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Myth 6

• Sell the benefits
• and they will accept
• the change.

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Myth 7

• People will get there in the end (youll wear
  them down).

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• Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the
  window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step
  at a time.
• Mark Twain