Organisational change is hard. The risks are high and many things can go wrong. Often, the projections look great on paper, but those projections are very hard to turn into reality.
And this is a problem because those projections don’t come cheap. Too often, the outcomes are disappointing, people quit, business is disrupted, culture is damaged, and careers suffer.
Why does this familiar story keep on happening? It’s easy to point the finger and blame others. Some of that blame may be warrented and perhaps pointing the finger feels cathartic. But it doesn’t change much.
Do you know what the root of the problem is? People don’t know how to change and they aren’t very good at it. At least, not when it’s hard and when it pushes them beyond their comfort zone. Then they do what they usually do when changes get hard – they opt out or they resist.
Not everyone, but many.
And this is where we can help because we teach people how to change. Your teams can learn how to be successful at changes, yes, even difficult ones that push them outside that comfort zone.
How much more could your business achieve if your teams engaged confidently with change and persisted till the job was done?
If that idea means anything to you, we should talk.
The Change Gym is a Learning & Development company with an e-learning focus (though not exclusively so). Our specialty is providing training to leaders and their teams on change readiness. We bring PhD level expertise in change readiness and years of experience in delivering adult education workplace programs. Since 2017, we have delivered many of our training programs in the Master of Leadership course at the University of Tasmania.
If your company is on a growth path, if you value scientific approaches to human and organisational development, and your leaders are committed to learning, we could be a great fit.
Change readiness has immense value because it shifts how you change from struggle to success. After all, why bank on success if how you change creates problems? But 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 helps you do that.
Keeps you safe. Change is risky. Change readiness keeps you safe. Companies that are ready for change adapt faster.
Helps you win. Change readiness improves current performance, sustains future performance, and positions you 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 when we talk about change readiness we don’t mean change management or project management. How you manage a change project is important, but how you change is a different issue.
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 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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