The way we traditionally define what it means to be brave can be our greatest obstacle. Simply shifting our focus can be the gateway to powerful results.
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“Change management” is a business term relating to initiating change within an organization. This could include anything from a change in work culture to increasing employee engagement and morale. The problem, however, with the term change management, is that no one really desires to change. Instead, we desire to plan to progress, and we want leaders to lead us—which creates progress leadership.
Committed leaders, or progress agents, should not apologize for the change, but instead should focus on inspiring the progress of their organizations. If progress agents include others in the process, they can shape and sustain the thoughts that in turn lead to desired results.
Companies are most successful when the goals of the company connect personally with employees. If the goals don’t connect on a personal level with an individual, then the planned progress will be viewed as merely a change and will be resisted or at least not acted on.
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Is all change progress?
Playing the devil's-advocate... is this presuming that all change is progress?
Consequently, wouldn't this also require the change agent to justify the change and show that it leads to progress?
I'm questioning this because I've too often seen where "change" just becomes "change" and not an improvement.
Change can be good, change can be bad,,, and sometimes, change is just change.
The challenge is in ensuring the change-activity is not only accepted but can actually be shown to lead to progress/improvement.
Progress Managememnt
Seems like you've invented a new term to Change Management. Proper Change Mananagement includes all the elements you've l;isted.
Yes, you are right people basically may not want to change unless they see a benefit and and smooth way to achieve those benefits both personal and professionally! That is Change Management done right!
Change Management is Dead
Dean Lindsay:
Excellent article. If after so many cases of Change initiatives wrongly deployed and unsustainable people don't realize that Change Management is barely alive and something needs to be done differently then Houston you got a problem.... Some CM providers like Prosci acknowledge their approach donesn't work https://blog.prosci.com/defining-success-after-change-management-certification- Thanks for sharing
Really?
Hi Dean, i can't help but think this was written just to get people to bite. Change Management dead. No chance. It will never die. What will die however, is the term to describe it. You're term, Progress Leadership, is Change Management or Organisational Change. Everything you describe is ironically part of effective change management. Maybe you've been around people who have not applied effective change management.
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