Change projects succeed or fail on whether people come along. This illustrated zine from Cirrus Change Readiness shows why roughly 70% of change projects miss their goals, why even eager teams struggle, and the system that keeps teams aligned from start to finish.
Your organization is going through a change project. You need it to work. This is what you need to know.
“When top-down changes fail to work, leaders often blame the workforce. Yet 64% of employees already possess the skills required to change successfully, and 74% say they are willing to support the change. Despite this, only one-quarter of employees are able to change the way they work when managed from the top down.”
(Gartner HR, 2019)
Cirrus Change Readiness has a team alignment system that uses your team to keep the change on track. Every team can be ready for change.
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“I'm leading a change that some people don't even want. We've invested a lot of money in this. I have to make this work! I'm concerned.”
Unmanaged change can create chaos. Chaos brings confusion, misalignment, fear and uncertainty.
And when that happens, organizations lose money, time, effort, trust and momentum. What about your reputation?
Only 30% of projects hit their change goals. It's not a secret, it's a system. Organizations need a system that keeps staff aligned during change.
“To improve the odds of success, and to reduce the human carnage, it is imperative that executives understand the nature and process of corporate change much better.”
(Beer, 2000)
“If there is a system that works, I need to know. The organization is still complaining about the last change project and the project manager.”
Cirrus Change Readiness created a system that manages each stage of your change:
The Change Readiness Assessment© will analyze staff to understand their fears, strengths, perceptions and psychological traits that can influence a change project.
The Cirrus Change Accelerator© delivers a tutorial of impactful videos, case studies and tools to put powerful concepts into action. Cirrus coaches will guide your team through the tools and change tactics to keep your team aligned.
Our Change Reinforcement Tracker shows who is aligned, who is struggling and what they need to succeed. This pulse survey tracks team success and struggles.
67% of organizations don't have in-house change management skills.
(Association for Talent Development)
68% of projects fail completely or in part.
(Gartner)
The Association for Talent Development identified change management skills as a high-performance practice and a key skill for high-performing teams.
Secure more value from the change being implemented.
Bring teams on board with the change and keep them there.
Acquire change competencies that will give them an ongoing strategic advantage.
“My team says they're excited to change. Do I need this?”
“Even teams that say they're ready to change will struggle.” Even teams with a great attitude can struggle because:
1. The change doesn't work like the team thought it would.
2. It's difficult to find time for training.
3. They feel displaced as subject matter experts, or process experts, as they adjust to the new way of doing things.
4. They are overwhelmed managing all their current deliverables while going through change.
5. The change makes their work more difficult, or impacts service delivery.
Organizations that had better change outcomes:
1. Had a leader who understood the time, energy and planning a change project needs.
2. Focused on specific completion requirements.
3. Invested in wide-scale training.
4. Included change readiness to prepare their teams.
5. Articulated what success looked like and shared this with all stakeholders.
“I can see the future and it's BEAUTIFUL!”
They included these in their change projects: a clear vision of what success looks like, a change team, time to train, opportunities for feedback, quick wins, and a detailed communication plan.
“With Cirrus Change Readiness I can empower my teams, understand their concerns and identify supports. I get readiness analytics, dashboards, tools and certified education. I can see who needs help, and who is on track at different parts of the change process! I'm ready to bring this into our organization.”
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“I have some bad news for you. The team is really grabbing on to the new system, the testing went well, and we feel like we're on track.”
“That sounds great. What's the bad news?”
“We'd like to end our contract with you early.”
“I have some terrible news. I know you warned me about our IT lead, and you wanted to use your change management program and I didn't think it was necessary. Well he's gone. He quit without notice and wiped all of our data.”
“Cirrus Change helped us understand how to identify and manage resistance to our change project. It made a huge impact in our project success.”
Phu Ngo, VP of Technology, National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors
“Cirrus Change helped our team adopt our new platform with the most actionable intelligence I've ever seen.”
John Weritz, VP of Standards and Technology, The Aluminum Association
When your team completes the Cirrus Change Accelerator, they will:
1. Know how to structure and lead change projects.
2. Recognize and remove roadblocks to change.
3. Use research-backed tools to accelerate change.
Cirrus can't solve every problem, but it can arm you with information and tools to manage change like a superhero.
Visit cirruschange.com for more information or email engage@cirruschange.com. Set a meeting to learn more about how Cirrus can help your project.
