Article: "Managing Change in an Innovative World"

by: Natalie Jenkins / Producer of Making Innovation Happen

Change Management isn’t what it used to be. I know, I know…we hear that about everything in business these days, but it doesn’t make it less true. In the past Change Management was about mobilizing your employees around the newest strategies / strategic intent or skill building movements. Today, in the innovative environment where constant change is a daily reality often forced upon us by new technologies, new competition, or global pressures, it is not about one big organizational push to reach a specific goal. It is about how you as an individual contributor maintain a spirit of constant agility, flexibility and innovation without losing site of your strategic and performance goals. The bottom-line is how do you get the insight to adapt goals when needed based on new information or new innovation. A pretty intimidating task for anyone. What it comes down to is what can an organization do to equip their employees with the skills they need to:

• Communicate Effectively
• Adapt when needed
• Focus during Chaos
• Notice what’s important and what’s not
• Manage daily business in the mist of constant change
• Create success and recognize it
• Learn from mistakes

Let’s take it one area at a time.

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