For almost 20 we’ve been working directly with project and programme teams in large organisations - global organisations - to help them implement projects more effectively by focussing on the people aspects of change. We have our own OCM methodology called PCI® (People Centred Implementation), and it’s based in more than 40 years of academic and field research about this very topic of “how you get more from your Change Projects?” - how does OCM can help you IMPLEMENT In about 65% of cases OCM is a professional skills or function inside the organisation just as project management typically is now, and the last time I looked we had trained and coached more than 12,000 people in 32 countries around the world. Our change training has always been action oriented (you come with a project and you leave with a plan!) But in 2000, we started doing a lot of work to make sure that PCI could integrate quickly with Prince 2 and MSP steps, 6 Sigma, and was more easily accessible to project leaders with: strong analytical tools (which we rolled up online), a step-by-step execution guide and change planner, e-learning modules to support you at different stages in your project
HUMANS Reality v Expectation leads to error messages Creates fear in the brain leading to fight or flight Day-to-day is hard wired and takes effort to change Loss of control
So, it’s not that change is received negatively, but instead, the change is in direct conflict with deeply held beliefs or expectations about how things should be. It’s this mismatch between reality and expectation that leads to error messages and mistrust Certainly what doesn’t help is that (as we hear from the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer) CEO trust is back to the low point of what it was after the crash of ’08-’09 – after all we see these people (the senior leadership) as the locus of everything that’s happening to us in organisations This can make change very difficult for people to embrace
The challenge for change leaders is that this people dynamic usually leads to a significant loss of value from change projects, whereby it’s difficult to capture those business case / ROI factors Of course … need to know that the solution we putting in is of high Quality, but: But we also need to be effectively ENGAGING people to Speed up their Adoption . Comprehensive data held by Gallop suggest that world-class organisations record an engagement ratio near 8 to 1 - meaning there are eight engaged employees for every disengaged one. What is interesting is that one of the major influencing factors in employee engagement is the degree to which all employees see the organisation successfully implementing change. Being part of change initiatives that constantly fail or end up at installation demotivates people and saps their energy, focus and excitement. To close this value gap we also need to build skills so people can feel Proficient We often need to shift behaviour so people will Utilise the system We definitely need to manage resistance and create commitment to help people Sustain their effort
One of the reasons organisations don’t reap the full benefit of change initiatives is that we don’t have in mind this distinction between installation and implementation, and that installation is really just a milestone towards full implementation The factors I’ve just been describing for going beyond installation are really all about OCM The way we transition people from now to WOW The way we help people to accept and embrace change The way we create and sustain people’s commitment to change
Our own research tells us that commitment is not easy to create or sustain Taken from one of our diagnostic tools, this is the cumulative data collected since 2005 from a sample of change managers who attended accreditation workshops. It is a composite of just over 2,500 participants from 50 companies across 30 countries. We wanted to find out where people “landed up” 2 years after change has been delivered. They told us that: 21% were still resisting 35% were committed 44% had accepted the change but were not fully engaged =/ commitment 2 years ago I was speaking with a senior programme director for a FTSE 100 company over lunch. He told me that in his organisation you could be in charge of a change project worth up to £5 million, and if it was installed and no benefits resulted few questions were asked. Those involved were simply not held accountable for these “small” change projects. Apparently the executive team were only interested in the £5-million-plus projects. If any of them “went south” , then it would be a different ball-game for the people leading those initiatives. What we are hearing now is our clients saying we can’t afford to rush this (35% is not enough) – we must get it right first time About a month ago I recently read a piece in the Kennedy Consulting Research and Advisory Wire that spoke of corporations now seeing the dangers of moving too quickly with a large-scale IT strategy
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In each of these areas there’s a body of work with tasks, processes, tools, additional plans, but if we just focus on what we need to get done in each of the areas …if we’re going to engage people, build new skills, help them shift their behaviour and manage relapses in their commitment …
At a very simple level …
Reviewing the responses to this question alongside the last question shows that people see that internal teams with full-time members are seen as far more effective than an internal team with part-time members (56% vs. 30%). So the good news is that these organisations are taking the right action – using internal teams to deliver change. But these teams would deliver higher results if more of them were full-time.