How do we plan for a change program?

If in a business we have to change what we have already implemented we need to do the following:

• Always make sure that you have thought through your approach before starting the implementation.

• Make sure that you have created a cultural climate that is willing to accept change.

• Appoint a change agent, or champion for change that will help to ease your changes through.

• Audit the skills and capabilities of your team. Train and develop as necessary.

• Your team must be built around you with the objective as the focus for you all.

• The change must be correctly marketed to your target audience using an approach such as Jobbers.'

• Decide what the change will be. Give it boundaries.

• Decide upon the plan.

• Work out a realistic budget and stick to it.

• Try to anticipate the arguments against change, and decide how to counteract them positively.

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