Are we Managing Change or the Perceptions about Change?



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justice makhado
Management Consultant, South Africa

Are we Managing Change or the Perceptions about Change?

Are we even managing change or are we managing employee feelings about the change?
 

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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
 

Managing or Leading Employees

I believe we manage things and inanimate objects and we lead people. That's because we cannot control other people's attitudes, feelings, behaviours; we can only influence them to act in a way that's desirable to us.
As a change leader, we first appeal to their emotional need for change, set a future state vision of change, and describe the initial steps to start down the different path. This is the communication side.
We also must give them reasons to believe change can be executed. This means enabling the employees with time and money to participate in the change.

 
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Leutloela
Professor, Lesotho
 

Managing Change or Employee Feelings About Change?

Yes on appeal to their emotions and giving them reasons, but we should also empower them by asking them to read theories of change so that we do not test our choices on them but rather we all participate with the same or equal level of knowledge.

 
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
 

Empowering by Reading Theories of Change

Leutloela: I agree with your comment. I provide change theory material and testimonials in the initi... Sign up

 
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Julius Tubili
Interim Manager, Zimbabwe
 

Managing Change

Gary; your change management tact is spot on, I will try it.... Sign up

 
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justice makhado
Management Consultant, South Africa
 

Managing the Perception Towards Change

Thanks for your responses, very thought provoking, I always say to candidates: change always starts... Sign up

 
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
 

Change Starts with Self

Justice: your comments are totally accurate. When we start change with self, we practice what is cal... Sign up

 
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Lawrence Gqesha
Analyst, South Africa
 

What are we Managing

We manage the processes and lead the people. People should change their attitude toward change in or... Sign up

 
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Dr. Luis De La Cruz
Professor, United States
 

Managing People Who Execute Change

People, structure, environment, and culture stimulate or depress innovative organizational change ac... Sign up

 
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Caroline A Vine
Manager, United Kingdom
 

Change may be Unwelcome, but is Necessary

The one thing that's consistent in business is change itself. If we don't change we don't evolve and... Sign up

 
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justice makhado
Management Consultant, South Africa
 

Are we Really Managing the Change

What then do we do with those who won't change, as the longer they are part of the group considering... Sign up

 
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Liz Luciano
United States
 

Managing Change

@Gary Wong: Gary I agree, people should be led - not managed. Influence happens by example and commu... Sign up

 
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Dr Gary Jones
Business Consultant, Australia
 

The Elements of Change

There are many elements to change and certainly employee resistance rates highly as a conditional el... Sign up

 
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bharat lal
Director, Nigeria
 

Change Management and Leadership

Managing change is when it has become a necessity, so it is planned and acted upon as per perception... Sign up

 
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TSE Pak Hoi Isaac (Dr.)
Professor, China
 

Bottom-Up, Non-linear Change

We could plan and wish to execute linear change, step by step and know when elements we need before ... Sign up

 
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Ivan Kohlinsky
Management Consultant, United Kingdom
 

Managing Change and Managing Employee Feelings About Change

The behavioural science side of change is definitely one of the important sides of change management... Sign up

 
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
 

Tool to Visualize Behavioral Change

Hi Ivan, I believe you're referring to (a variant of) Force Field Analysis?... Sign up

 
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Luis cupenala
CEO, South Africa
 

Managing Change or Employees?

Change is a natural process that depends mostly on the external environment of the firm. Management... Sign up

 
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Caroline A Vine
Manager, United Kingdom
 

Managing Change and People in case of Privatisation

If the culture of the organisation has not had the previous risk of competition due to it being a pu... Sign up

 
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TSE Pak Hoi Isaac (Dr.)
Professor, China
 

Privatization is a Radical Change in Organizational Design Model

@Caroline A Vine: why privatization? To crack the truth and be genuine, to tackle collective perform... Sign up

 
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
 

Privatization is Another Type of Business Model

@Tse Pak Hoi Isaac (Dr.) and @Caroline A Vine: It's my belief that the org design model is at the op... Sign up

 
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Sabine Pitcher
Manager, United Kingdom
 

Managing Change or Employees' Feelings?

You are spot on with your question... Managing change means managing the people affected by it. And ... Sign up

 
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Jacqueline Gargiulo
United States
 

Change versus Transition

I have been researching current thinking, and it is less about managing change - it just happens, th... Sign up

 
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Sumudu Dissanayake
Manager, Sri Lanka
 

Sustainable Change Until the Change Changes

We can not achieve sustainable change without changing the thinking of employees. Any change is onl... Sign up

 
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Louis Liu
Manager, China
 

We Should Think About the Meaning of Change to Different People

I know in some case, people even resist some good changes. There is no misunderstanding, wrong info,... Sign up

 
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ADIGUN TEMITAYO
Project Manager, Nigeria
 

Change is Constant and Change Drive Improvement

I have come to know over the years of my experience that there should be no control over change. Bec... Sign up

   

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