A New Episode
Reframing Change Management
An individual and an organization’s ability to reach their maximum potential surrounds their capacity to manage change. The need to reframe change management into perspectives that surround communication and accountability are crucial. As Carsten Tams (2018) posits, while managers are busy relentlessly communicating about the change imperative, the design of many organizations slants the playing field toward controllability, stability, routinization, risk-avoidance, zero-tolerance for error, or deference to authority. The “slanting” creates an atmosphere where fluid and transparent communication is stifled. Today’s leaders are stagnating because of a hyperacute focus on controllability, stability, and routinization. All three are the antithesis of innovation, creativity, and inclusivity, which are the backbone of productive organizational cultures. (Nagelbush 2020)
It is Inevitable
Change is one of life’s inevitabilities. Identifying the importance of a strategic and innovative approach to change management is an efficient pathway to sustainable competitive advantage. Aladwana (2001) agrees that top management should proactively deal with this problem instead of reactively confronting it. By leaning into the chaos manifested through change agents, companies can begin to embrace change actively and therefore find purpose in it. Being able to adapt and embrace change agents and the chaos that they foster provides an opportunity to analyze data and more accurately define problems as they arise. (Nagelbush 2020)
THE CHANGE MENTOR 