Leverage the 11 Change Roles for Success

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   Innovation  

Change can be complicated. Change can be confusing. Change can be difficult to successfully implement in any organization. This is why 70% of change initiatives have been found to fail.

To help make change less overwhelming, and instead more visual and more collaborative, I set out to create a toolkit for project managers, change managers and leaders everywhere to pick up and use with their change leadership teams to better plan and execute their organizational change initiatives, and even projects.

Change planning team contributions
Creating a change planning team that can bring the information and influence to the table that you really need is one of the keys to the eventual success of your change planning sessions and the overall change effort as a whole. The information you need will obviously be driven by the topics that your team should cover as part of your change planning efforts. These include:

• What is the current state?
• What are the change drivers? (It is helpful to discuss history, context and the main proponents.)
• Is there a budget for both planning and executing this change?
• What other change programs are in progress or about to begin?
• How ready are we as an organization to make this change?

Who needs to be involved in change?
Nothing is more important for creating successful change in an organization than getting the right people in the …

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