Change can be exciting and fantastically liberating. It can begin with a breakthrough idea, an innovation, or an inspired moment.
It can also be demanding, frustrating, troubling, and challenging. Yet growth, development, continuous improvement, and transformation all demand change.
The Change Gym helps individuals, teams, and businesses build change fitness and provides training to improve their skills. We use scientific approaches to help your organisation change faster, more easily, and more successfully.
Bridging the gap
All businesses face a demand-supply gap. This gap is between the almost infinite demands of a fast-changing world and the finite supply of human capacity. The key to bridging this gap is change readiness at the individual and organisational levels.
There are scientific and valid ways to build change readiness. The Change Gym has been doing this successfully for 15 years.
Doing something to improve how you change is a change in itself, and while it might feel risky and unpredictable, it’s really the safest thing you could do.
Improving our situation requires us to start somewhere. It doesn’t need to be jumping in at the deep end—just a tentative toe in the water is a start.
If you genuinely want your business (or your career) to improve and grow, what’s stopping you from putting a toe in the water? That small action could be booking a time for us to talk. We hope you do.
About Us
The Change Gym is a Learning and Development company with an e-learning focus. Many companies struggle to grow, to improve processes or customer service, or to build a healthy culture. This struggle is a problem, producing frustration, negativity, and confusion.
The Change Gym knows about change and how to manage it—change management providers tend to know that. But what makes us unique is what we know about people. We know how to help people improve at changing so they experience less frustration and stress and more confidence and success.
Where did we get this unique knowledge? It came from our PhD research into the psychology of change readiness and from years of teaching it to students studying for a Master of Leadership degree.
If your company is on a growth path, you value scientific approaches to human and organisational development, and your leaders are committed to learning, we could be a great fit.
The Value of Change Readiness
Change readiness shifts how you change from struggle to success, which has immense value. When you build change readiness, how you change becomes the driving force of your success.
Change readiness future-proofs your business. Your team must stay ahead of all the changes that could impact your business in the future.
Change readiness keeps you safe. Change is risky. Change readiness is safe.
Change readiness improves performance and positions you to win. You need to perform well through change and position your company for success.
The Change Gym was launched after owner and CEO Steve Barlow completed his PhD on change readiness and understood its power to create success. Over the years since then, we have developed systems, strategies, and tools to help companies succeed and flourish. Don’t risk your future. We use scientific methods to help you build change readiness – they work, don’t take much time, and are not hard to do. Let us show you how.
Please understand that we don’t mean change management (or project management) when we refer to change readiness. On the micro level, change readiness is critical to managing a change project. There’s no point embarking on a change if you haven’t prepared adequately and are not ready for it.
However, on a macro level, good change management is just one element of change readiness. In other words, change readiness is a broader concept and change management is a narrower concept.
How to develop change readiness
Developing an effective change readiness strategy requires a dual focus.
First, you need a psychological focus.
This means you need a way to help people get better at change. They need to build specific psychological capacities that help them engage and succeed, even when change gets hard and they feel like quitting.
Second, you need an environmental focus.
Your teams need a supportive, change-ready environment that allows them to engage their change strengths and succeed at change.
An effective change readiness strategy will improve your team’s well-being, build a stronger and more resilient culture, and make your organisation more adaptable and competitive.
We can help you
We support our clients in four areas to promote their change readiness:
Knowledge—We have specialist knowledge of change readiness developed over 20+ years. By sharing this knowledge with you, we can identify what you are doing well and where you can improve.
Framework—To build change readiness, you need to know what your are doing – you need a conceptual framework. Our Ph.D.-level knowledge of change readiness will give you the framework you need to get started.
System—You need a system that works and provides consistent results. Through our R&D and our work with clients over many years, we have developed a reliable system that you can deploy to deliver predictable outcomes.
Tools—We have created specialised tools and resources that make it easy to build change readiness and improve performance.
So, how does change readiness work? How can it revolutionise your business? Building change readiness involves;
Teaching leaders how to build the change readiness of their teams. This means building their knowledge, skills, confidence, and ability to handle change and be successful. This includes, but is not limited to, improving their change fitness.
Exploring new opportunities to improve performance, overcome problems, and grow the business. Our clients know their business better than we do. We create a powerful context in which they (leaders and teams) can explore ideas they can leverage. One good idea put into practice can be gold.
Building independence with change readiness. There’s an old saying, “It’s no honour to your teacher to remain his student forever.” There is a time to move on and stand on your own feet. Our goal is to help you learn what you need to know to keep the change readiness engines alive and running in your business.
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