What initiates the need for an organization to improve, restructure, and often disrupt its current way of doing things to adapt to change?
It could be a new trend. A change in market conditions. Noticing your competitors are branching into new areas. Listening to what customers are saying.
All kinds of things can trigger a strategy-change response. Then, once it happens, your entire organization needs to be involved in preparing for change and then taking the procedural steps to accomplish it.
It starts with upper management. The decision is made to plan and implement initiatives throughout the company that will result in actions to move the company forward.
To do this, they must communicate with managers and supervisors, so everyone understands the need for pending changes and employee buy-in. While executives may start with initial communication, guidance, and reinforcement, change agility is really needed at the management level to effectively operate and control the process of making changes. Managers and supervisors need to demonstrate strong CA skills.
