A manager can stimulate a culture for change by stimulating a culture of innovation. Innovation itself can be a new idea applied to initiating or improving a product, process, or service. Secondarily, a manager can create a learning organization, which is an organization that has developed the continuous capacity to adapt and change. What are other methods by which organizations create a positive culture for change?
Empowering subordinates for decision-making and applying a comprehensive inclusion approach: these would create the prerequisites for the smooth adoption of organizational changes. People would see themselves more than means for managers to achieve organizational goals, they would feel one with the project, asked what to do, not asked to do.
The role of leadership is paramount to create positive culture of change.
The following method, based on five steps, could be implemented by the leadership in order to stimulate a positive culture of change:
1. Create the motivation to change:
- Create the willingness to change
- Overcome the resistance to change
2. Create a shared vision of the desired future situation:
- Develop a shared vision behind the change
- Describe the future : a means to better face the future
3. Create a political support
- Evaluate the power of the change actors
- Identify the strategic stakeholders
- Choose the best way to influence these stakeholders
4. Manage well the transition
- Planning activities to better program and control the change.
- Planning the participation: Programming actor involvement and possible obstacles to face.
- Implementing the appropriate organization
5.Maintaining the dynamic of change:
- Providing the necessary resources to conduct the change.
- Developing new competencies and capabilities required by the change
- Reinforcing new behavior
By following the principle "Be the Change in self first". Once the facilitator accepts the change in himself/herself only then it can be passed to the rest for assimilation and absorption. Once the change is accepted by the subordinates/group its facilitation becomes more easy.
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