Change Enablement roars in the Lion City

Business Transformation Consulting

If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got. Einstein

This was the opening quote at the recent Executive Breakfast in Singapore (aka the Lion City) where Change Enablement presented the keynote address.

Sponsored by Thakral One the event’s audience comprised a mix of senior business and banking executives, many of them in the thick of managing large projects and major change initiatives.

The question we wanted to address was: If companies are spending millions of dollars on transformations, technology and project management, why is there still such a large failure rate and low return on investment from their investments?

Jeff Hackeson, Founder and Managing Director of Change Enablement led the discussion on the topic of “Project Benefits Realisation with Change Management”.

It’s a fair observation that while most attendees were not familiar with either entity, almost everyone at the event acknowledged that they are currently dealing with major changes in their projects and their organisations, and that building a competency around change management was essential to themselves, their teams and their businesses.

Jeff’s presentation covered

• Positioning projects for strategic success
• Positioning projects for sponsorship success
• Positioning organisations for change success

The latest 2016 Prosci Best Practices in Change Management findings on banking provided key insights:

• Traditional cultures within a well-structured and successful industry did not have people centric cultures
• In the industry companies often focussed on technical solutions and measurable success (i.e. return on investment and profits) rather than interpersonal relations/human variables
• Sponsorship and resources to support change were contingent on proving the return on investment of change management

Lively discussions and priceless examples of poor change management were shared. It seemed everyone had a story of change gone wrong.

During a robust question and answer session, we learned what is really on the minds of leaders at the forefront of technology implementation:

• How do we engage middle managers in helping to drive the change?
• How do we create the desire (referring to the D of ADKAR)?
• What is the best way of communicating change?
• How does culture impact on resistance and the change management efforts?
• How do we develop change management as an enterprise wide competency?

A summary of key points to leave the audience with were:

• The ability to deliver results, outcomes and return on investment for your organisations directly impacted by how effectively you manage change
• Supporting and equipping individual transitions is critical to reaching a desired future state
• The Prosci® ADKAR® Model is a goal-oriented and proven change management model to guide individual and organisational change
• Change Enablement supports organisations by building their internal capability across leadership, projects and change

If you are interested in having this presentation delivered in your organisation, please contact us via email at jeff@changeenablement.com or phone +61 0418 205 182. The presentation is aimed at senior executives and sponsors, and can be customised for project managers, change managers and project teams.

About Change Enablement: we are a member of the Prosci Global Affiliate Network

About Prosci

About Thakral One

Read More: 

Prosci now available in hong kong, gateway to china

Fort Collins, CO: Prosci announced today that it is expanding its world-class change management certification courses to Hong Kong through its new Global Affiliate, Change Enablement.

People and companies in Hong Kong now have local access to Prosci’s proven best practice change management methodologies and tools. This includes its world renowned Prosci® ADKAR® Model.

Mark Dorsett, the global growth and partner lead at Prosci explains that demand for effective change management practice is ever increasing in Hong Kong:

“Hong Kong’s growing economy generates high demand from local organizations seeking to improve the way they manage change and capture growth opportunities,” Mark said. “This is why we’ve chosen Change Enablement as our new Global Affiliate in the region.

“We’re very careful about choosing our partners, and we look for organizations that share our values, commitment to client success, and quality. Change Enablement has the experience and local know-how to build effective change capability in Hong Kong as they educate, train and certify Hong Kong people and organizations to manage change successfully.”

Jeff Hackeson is the founding director of Change Enablement.

“Being agile in the way we adapt to change is vital in today’s high velocity technology world,” Jeff said. “Our team has seen this at the coalface over the last decade in our experience working with organizations at all levels. We’re excited to partner with Prosci and help Hong Kong individuals and companies build their change capability so they can enjoy greater success and return on investment.

“Hong Kong is the gateway into China, which places Change Enablement at the forefront of making Prosci methodologies and tools available to Chinese individuals and companies as well,” Jeff added.

Change Enablement is now accepting registrations to participate in the Prosci courses due to begin in July. Please go to www.changeenablement.hk/ProsciGAN to register your interest and receive a special early bird offer.

For more information about Change Enablement and its Prosci offerings now available in Hong Kong, please contact Jeff Hackeson atjeff.hackeson@ChangeEnablement.hk.

About: Prosci is a change management firm focused on helping individuals and organizations build change management capabilities. Best practices research acts as the foundation for Prosci’s world-renowned change management training programs and tools, through which Prosci has certified over 30,000 change leaders worldwide. Read More

Change Enablement – Strategically Managing your Change Capability and Competency

To be successful in today’s business environment, organisations need to be resilient to change and know how to embrace it. There will always be new operating environments, market place opportunities and competitive pressures that force companies to make changes for success or mere survival.

Companies in the 21st century need to be nimble, responsive and adaptive.

Yet most companies are not this because they do not know how to manage or cope with change.

At Change Enablement, we work with organisations at all levels to equip them with the right skills to manage change successfully. We help make change an intrinsic part of an organisation’s culture so that it is ready to handle anything in the constantly changing world.

We do this by:

• Equipping employees to deal with and successfully manage change across all levels of the organisation through our world leading change management courses
• Preparing organisations through our consulting and advisory services, using the latest methods and techniques in change management, based on research from the universally acclaimed Prosci change management model.

Contact us today to find out how we can help your organisation navigate the constancy of change by building resilience to change and expertise within your organisation to manage change. Read More