Crafting a Successful Workplace Through Effective Change Management

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To: Daniel Chinn From:  Subject: Envisioning the future VMI Elements that make a successful workplace Change is a must for organizations that want to be at peace with the evolving markets either locally or globally. Change is not something that many people look up to, and many people are usually confined to the current working environments. Therefore, leaders must come up with ways of change management to be executed successfully for the betterment of the employees and that of the organization. There are effective ways of making changes in the organization and achieves better results. The first thing to do is to alter the approaches taken in approaching Change. Such would include altering the types of conversations, the behavioral models and the processes involved for getting things done (De Jong, Marston and Roth, 2015). As a manager, it would be good to find a proven process that will work for the organization, which considers the leaders, managers, and individual contributors' roles. Therefore, the best change process would include rigor on alignment, implementation and sustainment. Reduce the chances of resistance to change in the organization would be pretty practical if the change process starts from the executives (De Jong, Marston and Roth, 2015). In most cases, when the executive team is driving the organization's Change, they may or may not be impacted by it personally, but others will. In other words, let the executive become the Change that they want to see in others. Importance of Managing Change Once the change process has begun to take shape, it is essential to manage it for the organization's benefit. When Change in an organization is well managed, the workers' morale is usually boosted hence driving positive team building and job enrichment. With the management of Change comes positivity which tends to bring about increased productivity. Quality of work is also a result of change management, which tends to shorten production cycles at reduced production costs (Zaldivar, 2016). On the other hand, effective organizational change management tends to make the company maintain a constant state of evolution while facilitating periods of general business change. On the other hand, the general business change allows workers to remain motivated and at the same time productive during the introduction of new technologies and procedures (De Jong, Marston and Roth, 2015). How managing Change relates to the strategic plan for the organization For Change to be effective in the organization, a manager must exercise proper planning. A manager must communicate effectively to the stakeholders and explain why the Change is vital and why it must be undertaken. It would be good for the manager to clearly explain the benefits of the Change, the benefits...