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 Welcome to Allegra Consulting's January 2009 Newsletter.
Firstly, the Allegra Consulting team wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous new year. Hopefully you have enjoyed a break over the holiday period and are back feeling refreshed and ready to tackle 2009's change management challenges and opportunities! This month we announce the first of many Allegra Consulting seminars and events for 2009. Based on your feedback and suggestions received last year, we are currently finalising a program of forums and other change management learning and community networking opportunities. Our change management article this month looks at organisational change readiness and the benefits of assessing this readiness for every change initiative.
We also spend Five Minutes with... Carla Boynton, Senior Consultant with KPMG. - Helen Haley and the team at Allegra Consulting
We are happy to announce our first seminar The Change Manager's Challenge as the first event in our series of forthcoming Change Management seminars for 2009.
Our first seminar is scheduled at the end of February; further details will be released shortly.
We hope you will find our seminar series relevant to your needs and a regular opportunity to network, freely exchange ideas and knowledge with other members of the Allegra Change Community.
Stay tuned and visit our website for updates
- Rose Hodges, Allegra Consulting Change Management Forum and Education Manager
Assessing organisational change readiness
Behavioural and cultural changes are an integral part of any change initiative. Achieving success and realising benefits from a change project relies on these changes being implemented and embedded. But how can change practitioners and project managers understand and measure an organisations readiness for change?
Designing the change program relies upon a formalised view of the level of readiness of the organisation and impacted employees for the impending change. A formal assessment enables us to understand stakeholder perceptions and their level of commitment to the outcomes of the change, as well as an understanding of their level of change tolerance or indeed weariness. Building on a comprehensive stakeholder analysis as a basis for understanding the target audience, the readiness assessment should provide the foundation of a tailored change management and communications program and support the movement of stakeholders away from resistance to commitment. As well as providing a current view of change readiness, the assessment can be re-done in line with program milestones to continually assess the success of the change program and identify issues or gaps for the program as a whole.
There are a number of possible approaches to a change readiness assessment including stakeholder interviews, facilitated workshops or surveys but the resulting data should be in a format which facilitates a clear picture which can be used as baseline measurement, i.e. a mixture of quantitative and qualitative data.
The change readiness assessment should be regarded as a core component of any change approach and in itself is also an opportunity to build a strong foundation for stakeholder engagement and an inclusive collaborative approach. The perfect start to your change program. Allegra Consulting helps clients to assess change readiness and manage change programs for maximum effectiveness. For more information visit www.allegraconsulting.com.au
Refer and be rewarded!
The Allegra Consulting referral program is still running and continues to match excellent change management professionals with suitable roles or assignments.
To take advantage of this offer and let us know of change or project management friends or colleagues who are looking for the next "big thing", please call us now on: 03 9614 1616 or email us to directly introduce new candidates to us whether they are friends, family or acquaintances - if we place them, well give you $300*. Terms and conditions apply*
As a gesture of our appreciation, we will pay you a referral reward of $300 if you refer someone to us who is not currently on our database and we place the person in either a permanent role or a contract of at least 3 months duration within 3 months of the introduction.
Work with Allegra Consulting
Change Advisors
Allegra Consulting is looking for authentic, tried and tested Change Advisors for a number of current project opportunities.
To be considered for these opportunities you will need to demonstrate considerable commercial change management experience in large corporate environments.
Expertise in conducting impact assessments, development and execution of change strategies and the application of various change methodologies are essential components in assessing role suitability. If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience required we look forward to discussing these opportunities with you.
For more information about this role, please contact Diane Lynch for a confidential chat on 9614 1616 or 0408 872 222 or email your resume to resumes@allegraconsulting.com.au
Five minutes with...
Every month, we publish a short Q & A with some of the world's most experienced change management practitioners. This month we spend five minutes with:
Carla Boynton, Senior Consultant, KPMG
Read Carla's Q&A
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