Analysing your Change Readiness
Home » Understanding Change » Analysing your Change ReadinessWhat barriers might you face in initiating Change? Answer these simple questions.
1. Where are we now?
2. Where do we want to be?
3. What will happen if we don't achieve this?
4. What are the forces (reasons) driving this change
5. What are the drivers against this change (the status quo is always a driver against change)
6. What are the strongest drivers against the change?
7. Is change viable?
8. What will be the impact of changing?
9. What will be the effect of not changing?
Answers to this analysis will give you a strong business case for change.
Ensuring things stay changed
Change sticks when it becomes "the way we do things around here. Until new behaviors are rooted in social norms and shared values, they are only temporary and a waste of time and energy" - John Kotter Harvard Business Review, 1995
Ever tried to change a company policy, or introduce a new methodology you purchase the manuals at great expense, brief the employees, roll out the new idea, people get very enthusiastic, say they will use it and then it ends up on the shelf just gathering dust. Why? For change to work it has to have what John Kotter says is stickability. That means ensuring that the new learning or policy is implemented. See his model:
C.A. ensures that change sticks by preparing the company culture for change and ensuring clear communication with employees, managers and the leadership team before during and after every change process.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. 
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. 
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. 
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
‘The greatest discovery of all time is that people can change their future by merely changing their attitude'. 
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Be the change that you want to see in the world. 
There is nothing so stable as change. 
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. 
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. 
Nothing endures but change. 
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. 
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. 
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. You can do anything you decide to do. 
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. 
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. 
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. 
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. 
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. 
Men make history and not the other way around... Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Harry S. Truman
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. 
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. 
Be the change that you want to see in the world. 
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. 
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. 
