LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

Leading change successfully is arguably the most important work leaders do in organizations today. Given there is no end in sight to the current level of global instability and transformation, every organization that hopes to survive and thrive in the coming decades must be prepared to make ongoing, sometimes radical changes throughout. Often change sets up in leaders a struggle between managing the business and addressing the needs of the people. And leaders must shoulder most, if not all, the responsibility for initiating, implementing and helping people adapt to this ever-changing reality. Organizational change is hard to engineer and even harder to sustain.

Ten reasons why major change fails:

1. The foundation is not firmly established.
2. Communication is woefully inadequate.
3. There is no attention to transition.
4. Middle and lower levels of employees are not engaged.
5. Senior leaders are not working together.
6. An "old guard" mentality is significant.
7. The plan is not clear.
8. There is no link between individual action and organizational results.
9. There are too many changes - all of them urgent.
10. There is an inability to learn from past mistakes.

At Great Pines Consulting we know how to lead, guide and implement successful change. Our integrated approach has been developed to provide leaders with a concise, pragmatic understanding of what it takes to successfully lead change in their organization. As we pass these skills on to you, you and your people will become skilled change agents. Once you set the wheels in motion, you realize a momentum that becomes self generating as everyone works together for the good of the organization. The net results? A successful transition where fun and profit are also outcomes of the experience.