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Change Management
Seven Mind-Sets
and Five Skills for Effective Change Management
Seven Mind-Sets
While engineering change management you may
also have to identifying seven mind-sets that may come in the way and you
need to get trained to break them.
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Mind-Set #
1-
“There’s nothing in
that Idea”
(Believing the obvious)
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Need to learn how to see
beyond the obvious
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Mind-Set # 2-
“Can’t see how it can
be done” (Finding no way out)
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Know, how to remove self-imposed
barriers
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Mind-Set # 3
-- “There’s only one way to look at it”
(Developing short sightedness)
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See how to identify alternatives and
options
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Mind-Set # 4
-- “Judgment on fact says it won’t work” (Facts
affecting judgment)
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Question whether facts are facts
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Mind-Set # 5
-- “It won’t work if you do that, this happens” (Pattern
Breaking)
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Breaking pre-conceived notions
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Mind-Set # 6
-- “It won’t work when it comes to
detail” (Too Complex)
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Ignoring the details to stay focused
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Taking a step back -- a bird’s eye
view
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Mind-Set # 7
-- “Its just impossible” (Negative biases)
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Finding ways to make it work
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You
don’t know what’s possible until you try
Intek conducts
"Mind Openers for Managers" workshop helping people
bring about productive changes in their organisations.
Five Skills for Effective
Change Management
1.
Political skills
Because companies are by nature
political, it's essential to understand organisational dynamics when
attempting to effect change.
2.
Analytical skills
Intuition and insight aren't good enough. Change agents must conduct
sharp analysis. The two most crucial skills are systems analysis and
financial analysis. Change agents must learn to take apart and reassemble
operations and systems in novel ways, and then determine the financial and
political impacts of what they have done.
3.
People skills
Relating to people, their needs, fears, and dreams, is essential during
a period of change. This is especially true at multinational companies,
where cultural, language, political, and religious differences abound.
4.
System skills
Although knowledge of computer-based information systems is essential in
today's business environment, so is the larger issue of understanding
processes, including resources and routines intended to produce specified
results.
5.
Business skills
It's impossible to succeed without
a fundamental understanding of how a business works. This includes insight
into the flow of money, knowledge, and data.
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