Change management can be a bitch. People go bananas, communication flops, performance slides and managers scramble to contain the pandemonium. Old habits die hard, and leadership is stunned, angry or in denial about how rocky it is to get the team onboard.

All those things are typical – but not inevitable.

Overcoming that kind of meltdown starts by understanding one of the biggest reasons companies struggle with change management in the first place. Trouble is, most team members simply aren’t pre-equipped with the mindset, experience and know-how to deal with big-time change when it happens. By the time it gets dumped on people, it’s too late to dig in and move out without causing a ton of disruption and anxiety.

Think of it like getting ready to go into battle. Can you image the chaos and consequences if the country waited to call up troops and train them until there was an actual invading army on our doorstep?

Fortunately, getting people ready to manage most organizational change isn’t that dire or demanding. In fact, one of the simplest and surest way to get your team tuned up to manage change is by getting them engaged in processes for systematic continuous improvement – routine regimens that weave micro-changes and gains into the fabric of everyone’s daily work.

Those regular processes help overcome barriers to change for two reasons:

• Employees see improvement-driven change as just the way we do things around here

• They have a say in what happens so it doesn’t feel like change is being shoved down their throats without their involvement

Click on the link below, and let’s talk about some proven SCI tools to get your team ready to “win the battle with change” when it shows up!

6-Week Program for Systematic Continuous Improvement

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