Roles in Organisational Change
Home » Understanding Change » Roles in Organisational ChangeDuring any change process, there are three roles that individuals take on:
Change Sponsor: Individuals or groups with the power to visualize and determine that a change will occur. In most organizations a change sponsor is usually upper level management
The person initiating a change. |
Change Agent: Individuals or groups responsible for seeing that a previously determined change occurs, normally the role of middle and lower level management.
The person whose job it is to implement the change.
Change Target Individuals or groups who are asked to change something (knowledge, skill, attitude or behaviour). Usually employees.
The person who must learn new skills or is asked to undergo change.
Change Personalities
Are you a victim or a survivor? We've all heard that expression, but did you know you can be a navigator too?
A Victim: Feels threatened, panics or tries to avoid change and complains.
A Survivor: Accepts the changes, although may have negative feelings about the change and carries on with existing work effort, but will not make any extra contribution.
A Navigator: Welcomes the changes and will attempt to get some influence over events, they will compete with colleagues to get best out of changes.
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. 
