So, You Want to Be a Change Leader
You may have been selected by your executive to initiate and see through some change program in your organization. Or you may have decided that the time has come to make your mark by dusting off the cobwebs in your workplace. However your change role came about, you have a challenging task ahead of you.
Consider this sobering thought. In spite of the importance of successfully implementing workplace change for maintaining your business’s competitiveness, most change initiatives fail to deliver the expected organizational benefits. This failure occurs for a number of reasons:
? absence of a change champion or one who is too junior in the organization
? poor executive sponsorship or senior management support
? poor project management skills
? hope rested on a one-dimensional solution
? political infighting and turf wars
? poorly defined organizational objectives
? change team diverted to other projects