Change Management

People and organisations are very resistant to change, yet the benefits of periodically reviewing our businesses are obvious.

The heart of Leadership is all about identifying, starting and implementing change.  

Change is something many people fear above all things in their working lives. Change is seen as a threat. Some people become so worried by the prospect of change that they resign and get another job. This imposes more change on the person than would have been the case had they stayed and embraced the original change.

As times and circumstances move on, businesses need to change with them. If this doesn't happen, in extreme cases the business may die. Usually, however, the business becomes less and less efficient and less and less profitable and much harder to manage. There are many factors to consider, the changing marketplace, changing customers and their requirements, competition and profit margins, technology, finances, out-of-date custom and practice, and many more... Change is the continuous adjustment of business activity to changing external conditions. Today, change is not the exception but the rule—a steady ongoing process. In contrast, "business as usual" has become the exception to the rule.

In 1890 Samuel Walter Foss wrote a poem entitled The Calf Path that elequently describes the need to challenge accepted ways of doing things and move with the times.The Calf-Path gives a good insight as to why we do what we have always done, according to the traditions handed down over the generations. This poem was written at the height of Victorian industrial progress, when the inefficiencies inherited from the past were becoming very apparent.

Change management is a systematic approach to dealing with change, both from the point of view of the business and the individual employee. Managed change is an application of knowledge, tools, and resources to provide organizations and individuals with a process to achieve their strategy. Change management means to plan, initiate, realise, control and stabilise change at both the business and the personal level. EveryMan Consulting can assist you plan and manage the change. Contact us for a complimentary no-obligation review meeting.