Your Change Readiness Strategy
Let's create your change readiness strategy
The Parameters
Creating a change readiness strategy isn’t usually a one-person job, nor should it focus on one person only. Everyone on your team needs strong and healthy change readiness muscles. Your strategy must cater to individuals and all the people on your team.
Your change readiness strategy must focus on the psychological change fitness within people and the organisational change readiness within the environment. Your strategy will need to focus on both areas, preferably at the same time.
Your strategy must work in practice, have measurable outcomes, and be safe to use with your people.
Requirements for your strategy:
- address both individual and group needs
- build strengths internal to the person and outside the person (but inside the organisation)
- deliver measurable outcomes and be safe to use
What your strategy needs to do
On an individual level, you want your strategy to produce adaptable workers who are responsive to change and more successful at it. And you want it to produce competent and effective change leaders who make their teams more adaptable and more change-ready.
On the group level, you want your strategy to produce engaged, diverse, and adaptive teams that work well together, solving problems, removing obstacles, and seizing new opportunities. You also want it to produce managers who manage change effectively and build engagement using scientific methods.
Your strategy needs to focus on the individual and the group. It needs to focus on growing personal change fitness and organisational change readiness. It needs to do both simultaneously, in a way that can be measured and that is safe for your team and your business.
How do you develop such a strategy?
You could try to develop the strategy on your own, but that would take years of trial and error, sifting through information and creating your own new knowledge, and it would be very expensive and difficult.
It doesn’t need to be that hard. You can easily develop your strategy by leveraging our knowledge of change readiness. We have programs that show you what to do and do much of the work for you. The adjacent diagram shows these programs, which cover the psychological and structural/environmental aspects of change readiness—personal change fitness and organisational change readiness. Let’s dive a bit deeper into them.
Do our programs work?
First, let’s address the elephant in the room: Do the programs work? We have been collecting data on their effectiveness since 2015. You can see that, on average, our clients’ change fitness scores improved by 38% over 90 days. This rate of improvement has been consistent over the past decade, and we have worked with people across 16 countries over that time.
This graph shows change readiness improvements in recent clients across various groups. The red columns show their change readiness scores before training and the green columns show the scores after training. Our programs are scientific, and there is quantitative and qualitative data to show they work. Let’s look at the Change Readiness Superpowers programs and see what they can offer you.
Will they work for you?
We are confident in our methodology and the theory behind it. We have tested it in the real world for over a decade, and it has proven effective across a broad range of people, nationalities, and industries. However, it is not magic. Clients should make a genuine effort to attend classes and complete the coursework. We are confident it will work for you if you and your people do your part.
How do we deliver consistent quality?
Standardised inputs. Our programs are built on standardised inputs. Over time, we have discovered what works and refined how we deliver our programs. We are still learning and looking for ways to improve, but we know our standardised procedures deliver consistently great results.
Qualified staff. We rely on trained, skilled, and talented instructors to deliver our programs. Our team can deliver and support our programs, allowing us to scale them as needed.
Robust IT. We have our own adult learning platform supported by a robust IT system, Australian servers, and online tech support.
Assessment measures. We use quantitative and qualitative measures to track progress and maintain quality.
In-house supply. We do not rely on external supply chains. We own all our IP, programs, and platforms. Everything we need to deliver our programs is in-house.
Simple, flexible systems. Our systems and processes are simple and easy to follow. We offer flexible services – precisely what you would expect from a change readiness company.
Business Outcomes
Here are four business outcomes you can expect to see:
Improved performance. You will significantly increase performance across your teams by leveraging change readiness. It’s easy; we can show you how to do it.
Better change outcomes. More ability to cope with unexpected changes – change readiness makes organisations more competitive and supports long-term sustainability.
Better problem-solving and more opportunities. Change readiness improves problem-solving capability and makes seeing and grasping new opportunities easier.
Greater well-being and sustainability. As people develop a greater capacity to deal with change, their well-being improves, and organisations become more sustainable.
Low Risk
Being ready for change is not risky; to be unready for change is far more risky. Building a change readiness strategy and making your organisation more ready for change involves virtually no risk.
Our system for building personal change fitness and organisational change readiness is not risky. It has been developed from Steve Barlow’s award-winning PhD research into change readiness. Our programs and tools have been tried and tested for nearly a decade in the Master of Leadership program at the University of Tasmania’s School of Medicine. They have also been used extensively with people and businesses across 16 countries. Some have been included in CPD programs at the International Coaching Federation and the Australian Association of Social Workers. Our programs are safe to use.
Our processes are not risky. We do all our work ourselves. Dr Steve Barlow either delivers all programs himself or, if others are involved, remains close to the delivery. Our processes are systematised so we deliver consistent quality. We are DIFOTQ-ready – delivering our services in full, on time, and with consistent quality.
Our company is not risky. We own all our resources, tools, and programs, are fully insured, and have been in business since 2010. We have a robust risk management plan, a low environmental impact, compliant WHS practices, and financial security. We are small enough to be flexible and quick to respond.
Our leadership is not risky. CEO, Dr Steve Barlow, is a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders (ANZ) and a Member of the Change Management Institute. Steve has adult education training and experience, having delivered training programs in universities, prisons, vocational education institutes, and schools. Steve has a PhD in change readiness, a Masters in Educational Psychology, and adult learning qualifications.
Your investment is not risky. We stand by our programs; if they don’t work for you, we will refund your money. That’s our safety net for our clients.
Change Readiness Superpowers
So, the best place to start is with the Change Readiness Superpowers program. This can be taken as an individual or a group program, providing a great introduction to change readiness. It will get you started on your change readiness strategy and will help build personal change fitness and organisational change readiness.
Superpowers (Individual Program)
One option is to do the program on your own. This may be a good option for people who want to:
- check out the program before recommending it to others in their organisation
- promote their own personal and professional development
- want a certificate to show they have done change readiness training
- want to promote change readiness in their organisation but don’t have much support from management
Superpowers (Group Program)
The second option is to do the program with your team. This may be the best option for people who want to:
- align a common understanding and language about change across the team
- dive deeper into how the concepts relate to your organisation and what their implications might be
- develop the change fitness and readiness of your organisation in a shared, communal experience
- save time and money by training together
- launch your change readiness strategy
Scalability and other programs
Programs must be scalable for larger organisations. We have developed that are scalable in two dimensions:
- they can be delivered to groups, allowing many people to benefit – time- and cost-effective
- we can train your people to deliver our programs – save money and embed the skills where you most need them
You can learn more about some of these programs here.