Each of us can build for the future by taking appropriate action and by developing a "personal change action plan" within our organizational setting. How your feel about change doesn't need to control what you do about changing. Think of change as a big project, then deal with it in bite-size pieces. If you cannot find solutions (a way to solve the whole problem), look for remedies (a partial solution). In organizations, complex problems can usually be solved by a number of remedies, often contributed by different people. It takes prioritizing. No one can change everything at once. Dealing with change is built on two things: 1) knowing your purpose in your work and life (why you do what you do), and 2) knowing your values and beliefs in business and in your life so that you can make decisions based on what is important. The best solutions to problems may never be adopted if employees who "own" the problems do not understand the solutions, if they really believe the solutions will not work, or if they believe that the solutions will lead to other problems more personally significant than the current ones. Change occurs when individuals who must adopt the change also create the innovation that is to be adopted.

Effective change management demands strategic planning, careful implementation mapping, and tough-minded status monitoring.

The Joyner Group Change Management Program
includes the following services:

Strategic Planning Facilitation

• Vision definition
• Strategy facilitation
• Clarifying corporate goals
• Driving organizational alignment
• Building team cohesion
• Defining tactical action plan

Organization Change Planning

• Initial assessment of planning issues and barriers
• Pre-meetings with planning executives
• Management of task force activity
• "Organization Change" project plan

Organization Change Road Map

• Specification of change objectives
• Identification of reinforcing factors
• Delineation of people, timelines, and specific responsibilities (Road Map)
• Monitoring of implementation
• Coaching of key change owners
  

Seven C's for Managing the Implementation of Change
- Test Your Change Hardiness

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