The Five Keys to Successful Change

Braden Kelley is an innovation and change specialist, the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, an InnovationExcellence.com co-Founder, and is the creator of the Change Planning Toolkit™ and a book on the best practices and next practices of organizational change (January 2016 release).

  Change Management  

My second book, Charting Change, a follow-up to Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, is in the copy editing process and will be coming out soon. While my first book helped people identify and remove barriers to innovation, my next book is designed to make the process of planning change efforts less overwhelming and more human.

The book will introduce a visual, collaborative Change Planning Toolkit™. designed to help get everyone literally all on the same page for change. The toolkit begins by painting a different background for the landscape of organizational change. Here we introduce the first of more than 50 tools and frameworks comprising that make up the toolkit.

When it comes to organizational change, most people focus on change management. There are even a couple of professional associations organized around the practice of change management, including the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP).

But change management is only one of the five keys to successful change:

Leave one out, and eventually your change effort--no matter how big or small--will eventually fail. If you’re setting out to change the world (even a small corner of it), then you’ll want to be sure to consider each of the five keys and make sure that you proceed in a measured way that takes each into account.

Let’s look at each briefly in turn before we …

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