HOW CAN WE SUPPORT YOU?
We recognize that experienced change managers and/or Prosci practitioners often face common challenges in their roles. Change Stylist is here to provide you with the guidance and tools to navigate these challenges effectively:
Your sponsor is not meeting your expectations:
Sometimes, sponsors may not meet your expectations due to a variety of factors. To address these challenges, it is often recommended to assess your sponsor’s ADKAR, which can offer valuable insights on how to support them. Additionally, understanding your sponsor's preferred change style and acknowledging your own can make a significant difference. Some sponsors may focus on launching large-scale projects while overlooking the finer details of completion and security. Others might avoid delivering difficult or negative messages to avoid confrontation.
Change Stylist assists in understanding your sponsor's change preferences, enabling your sponsorship plan to align with those preferences, and thus, aligning your sponsorship plan accordingly. It also helps identify areas that may require further engagement for a more successful sponsorship.
Your change team is not performing optimally:
Occasionally, change teams may consist of individuals with diverse expertise, such as communication experts, social media gurus, or HR business partners. Yet, they struggle to work together cohesively.
Change Stylist assist in understanding the change preferences of individual team members, ensuring that your team composition aligns with the necessary task allocation.
Planning for major change, but lacking the proper preparation:
In many organizations, the importance of change management may be undervalued. Effective communication is often relied upon to steer major changes, but research highlights the benefits of a planned approach to address the human aspects of change.
Change Stylist familiarizes you with the change preferences of your sponsor and other relevant stakeholders, aligning your change plans more closely with their preferences for smoother role assignments in terms of content and timing.
Prosci certified, yet daily practice proves more challenging:
Obtaining Prosci certification provides a strong grasp of the methodology and tools around change management but applying them in the real-world can be challenging. These challenges present themselves when establishing challenging relationships with sponsors, encountering difficulties in message delivery, or facing heightened organizational resistance.
Change Stylist offers insights into the psychological aspects of human behavior, including communication preferences and strategies. This understanding empowers you to analyze behavior more effectively, align sponsors and communication methods, and meet the organization’s specific needs. The result is a smoother, more productive change management process.
My sponsor won’t let me manage the change:
Dealing with sponsors who are reluctant to engage or resist management can be challenging. A strained relationship with your sponsor can impede the smooth progress of your change project.
The Change Stylist provides a deeper understanding of the psychological aspects of sponsor behavior and effective activation strategies. This insight equips you to analyze your sponsor's behavior more effectively and enhance the utilization of your sponsors, ultimately leading to more effective change management.
Struggling to convey the message despite extensive communication:
Despite putting in extensive effort into communication, the message continues to fall short. Repeating the same methods isn't effective, and it's clear that an alternative approach is needed. Many people resist change because they don't understand why it's necessary for the business.
The Change Stylist offers a more intelligent communication model, which involves tailoring your communication to different profiles and communication preferences. This approach enables you to craft a more compelling "Why" that resonates with a broader audience. It also equips you with smarter communication tools to effectively address the questions raised within the organization.
IN SUMMARY, WE CAN HELP YOU BY ASSESSING:
Communication preferences of your change team:
We provide assessments to help you allocate resources more effectively.
The development of your own change management style:
Understanding your unique change style to take on more rewarding and better-matching initiatives, with expert guidance to address advanced challenges.
Sponsor behavior:
Insights into the psychological patterns of sponsors and how to build trust and strong relationships as a trusted advisor.
Your preferred approach to change:
Are you more comfortable with a methodical and organized step-by-step improvement process, or do you prefer high-risk, large-scale transformations?
Alignment of change styles:
How to match the change style of your sponsors and your change team members, enabling more effective collaboration based on their preferences.
Customization plans for different audiences:
Using neuroscience insights to create impactful messages, communication, and sponsor activities that stimulate positive responses from affected groups.
