MANAGING CHANGE & DEVELOPMENT

 How change is managed can have a serious impact on the wellbeing of your employees. Having some control over the job and how it is done can play a huge part in managing positive employee health and wellbeing at work. Allowing employees a voice in how change is delivered within your organisation can help to maintain their sense of wellbeing. However, poorly managed change processes are likely to cause long lasting resentment with your employees and result in a breakdown of trust and communication and in turn effectiveness of your teams. In any change process it is important to:

• ensure that the team or service is ready and prepared for the change
• ensure communication and consultation is a critical part of the process 
• demonstrate strong leadership with a clear vision, linked to the organisations objectives
• ensure employee engagement is listened to. Employees are more likely to embrace change if they feel part of the process
• use a solution-focused approach and encourage team building

Our team of experts can support and advise you and your organisation to prepare for and deliver successful change programmes. This may include:

• Forcefield analysis 
• SWOT assessment 
• Stakeholder analysis 
• Communications strategy 
• Supporting staff and recognising their responses to change 
• supporting you to overcoming resistance
• Acting as a critical friend at key decision making milestones 

 Organisational development draws on many different disciplines but can be described as facilitating change in organisations through a holistic and humanistic approach that puts your people at the heart of the process. It allows organisations to adapt, improve and evolve in delivering the organisations objectives. 

Helping any organisation to move forwards and evolve, means doing so with your eyes wide open to the bigger picture. Organisational development allows organisations to not only focus on the obvious changes required such as structures, business objectives or stakeholder requirements but also organisational culture which drives how an organisation functions day to day. Organisational development can harness positive cultural change to deliver effective sustainable strategies with your employees to make sure they feel part of your organisations change or development. 

Our team of specialist practitioners can support, advise and deliver meaningful organisational development programmes for you.