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What is Change Management?
What is change management? Put simply, it’s the process that guides how an organization prepares, equips and empowers its workforce to successfully navigate organizational change. Are your employees as agile and adaptive as your enterprise strategy? If not, you...
No Such Thing as Too Soon: How is Timing Important to Change Management?
The outcome of your organizational change management efforts hinges significantly on your timing. So, how is timing important to change management? Well, if you wait too long, the shock of the change overshadows any benefits that new technology and processes provide....
Tips for Reskilling Employees When Technology Changes Their Job Description
According to a recent survey of more than 3,000 global business decision-makers, nearly 70% said they planned to increase or maintain their digital transformation spending, despite recent setbacks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Are you planning to follow suit?...
Can Strategic Communication Solve Some of the Organizational Challenges Posed by COVID-19?
As businesses reopen across much of the US, many employees and managers are reflecting on their workplaces’ level of communication and support during the shutdown and reopening. Maybe your employer’s response seemed adequate, but how does it compare to the response of...
HCM Implementation Change Management Tips
Many organizations implement modern human capital management (HCM) software to reduce HR expenses, such as labor costs and outsourcing costs. However, HCM implementations often fall short of these goals and fail to achieve other HR-related benefits. Why? One of the...
How to Employ Change Management in Healthcare Organizations
Healthcare providers around the world are shifting away from legacy systems and embracing new technologies. While this shift has been occurring for years, the pace of change has recently increased for many providers due to external influences, such as the need to...
How to Ensure Business Readiness Before an ERP Project
Making the transition from disparate, legacy systems onto a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a major change. While the benefits of ERP software are vast, it’s important to ensure your business is ready to embrace it. Today, we’re...
Causes of Change Management Failure
According to a recent survey of more than 1,500 executives who had undertaken a significant change effort in the past five years, only 37% felt that the implementation was successful. While it pays to understand the change management models and theories that...
Strategies to Ensure Remote Team Productivity
To comply with social distancing orders, millions of employees are clocking in from home. Some are learning new technologies, such as Zoom, for the very first time. Others are juggling homeschooling and around-the-clock parenting with the demanding duties of a...
Podcast: The Role of Organizational Change Management During COVID-19
During these unpredictable times, many organizations are finding the need to reinvent their strategies and how they work. In light of this, we recorded a podcast featuring our organizational change management experts. We discuss change management tips for keeping...
5 Turnaround Change Management Tips
As the coronavirus pandemic forces many companies into financial crisis, executives around the world are figuring out how to get their teams out of quicksand and back on solid ground. Large-scale change is necessary, and now is the time to act. However, before you...
How to Build a Strong Culture with a Remote Team: The Complete Guide
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, millions of employees are now working remotely. The decision has reopened a years-long dialogue around the advantages and drawbacks of a flexible work arrangement, with valid points on both sides. As employers around the...
5 Ways to Prepare for Transformational Change
If you’re considering digital transformation, you probably know it entails significant operational changes. Whether you’re changing your entire business model or certain business processes, these transformational changes are challenging for organizations and their...
Coaching Managers to be Change Leaders
Before embarking on an enterprise-wide project, senior management should be aware of the challenges they might encounter. Some of these challenges include employee resistance to change, ineffective communication practices and poor prioritization of new initiatives....
Why Cybersecurity Requires a Change Management Plan
Some organizations believe the right technology and processes are all they need for strong cybersecurity. However, they are overlooking their strongest defense: their people. Hackers know that employees are the quickest and easiest route to company data. Considering...
8 Strategic Human Capital Management Tips
Change is scary, especially in a business setting. From an operations standpoint, it can cause costly delays and strain the budget. From the employee standpoint, it often means extra work and fear of the unknown. As a result, the human resources department will need...
4 Common Questions About Change Champions
Some of the best sports teams have mascots— people who inspire fans to cheer louder and root more passionately for their teams. The common purpose behind these costumed heroes is simple: funnel organizational support into a collective energy to rally their teams to...
5 Facts About Employee Engagement
Imagine you are a vice president at a leading sales company. Your CEO just charged you with spearheading a project that will fundamentally change the way your business operates. You know that many projects involving large-scale change fail on the first attempt and are...
How to Conduct a Focus Group: Guidelines for Discussion
ERP projects and business transformations are exciting ventures for organizations. However, this excitement is almost always accompanied by apprehension. With this apprehension comes questions like: Will my employees reject the proposed changes? Will managers support...
