Written by: Claire Gellang
People are living a fast paced life today. In order to cope up
with this kind of life, change is very essential. Many despise change because
it is an indication of extensive and intensive modifications of what is used to
be. A lot are even afraid of it yet settling for what you already have and
where you used to be is similar to depriving yourself of endless possibilities.
In business, entrepreneurs are sometimes in fear of making changes to their
businesses. Lack of assurance and the fear of losing their investments are only
some of their biggest concerns. Yet, there is something valuable in change
management that makes it worth taking the risk especially in the world of
business.
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As time goes by, more businesses are getting
cognizant to the fact that Change Management is an essential part of projects’
success that will minimize and alleviate risks, boost ROI and perk up user adoption
rather than just another trend covered with jargon. A very crucial element to attaining winning projects is to implement
change management methodologies and discover how it affects the quality of
project’s upshots. Learning how to administer
change to the peak of its effectiveness will improve the success of your
projects in all regards. Yet, not every organisation has recognized that
Organisational Change Management is indispensable to the success of their
change projects. Moreover, many companies that have made this attempt have only
done so partly and still need to go further. Without doing such, more appalling
events will partake and history will only repeat itself. Experience the serious
consequences of ignoring establishing a change management framework and
managing change.
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Managing change is not one of those added function that will be
one of countless gobbledygook to tick the box of governance. A healthy modern labour
force cannot be productive in an environment that is not based on clear, customized
and precise communications and approaches to close the learning curve by
closing the information gaps caused by the change. A number of senior managers shun
from allowing a full change management method to be incorporated with the
project. They don’t consider it “real work” and setting up the change is an opulence
and risk which they cannot afford. The irony is that while employees in the
business defy the change, people in the project resist a plan to resisting the
change. The excuse of working on
time-constrained projects is exactly why change management is required. The challenge for change practitioners is not
only functioning in hassled environments but also working in skeptical
environments that compel them to work “below the radar” at times. Multiple
companies, on the other hand, have adopted Change Management as a key activity
in their business, they still represent a small percentage of all those that
would benefit by establishing change capabilities into their daily operations
and thus require a change in culture corporate in the growth of change
capabilities.
Venturing into business will take and require a lot of courage
from people since business is not intended for faint-hearted individuals. In
order to extend and widen your business it will also take ample and a high
level of courage to make necessary changes. Taking risk by venturing into
business does not stop there, embracing change will help your business grow and
you as a person as well as widen your horizons making change management
essential and necessary.
