{"id":5323,"date":"2019-09-11T15:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/change-management\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:29:56","slug":"change-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/services\/transformation-management\/change-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Change management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Introduction and challenges<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"intro\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The level and type of change required in transformations has become increasingly complex and the pace unrelenting, driven often by the constantly evolving role of technology both in society and our working lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, the ability to focus on people and understand their needs, worries and personal motivational drivers is not a simple skill; it takes time and experience to develop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We help our clients to understand that change is not as mysterious as most people think and that it typically unfolds in a manner that can be recognized, understood and, at a high level, predicted. This allows companies to anticipate how people will respond during change and plan accordingly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Important factors include the ability to recognize the critical symptoms that can help guide the change process, taking specific actions to ensure progress, helping people recover more quickly and effectively from the effects of the change, and exploring and finding the right mix of top-down lead and collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How we can help<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of all engagements with our clients, we work with our overall transformation framework Assess Design Embed\u00ae. This comprehensive approach to helping clients in their transformation journeys enables us to ensure that all aspects of the transformation are rooted in our core principals of achieving sustainable change. Our consultants are all experienced and fully trained in our change management approach and a substantial repository of tools and techniques.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key areas of our change management support include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Culture diagnostics<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change readiness assessment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight into client organization change history<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change vision development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stakeholder alignment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change management strategy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change agent capability development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change management support<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communication strategy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communication planning<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People capability assessment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talent management strategy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Training Strategy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engagement assessment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engagement strategy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mindset and behavior changes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mobilization events<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change management is a well-established skill set and area of real competitive advantage when fully embraced by organizations, regardless of industry focus. There are basic axioms of change that can be followed for efficient approaches to a wide set of known change challenges. It is critical though to approach each change challenge with a mindset that each situation is different and needs to be fully understood for its mix of complexity and difficulty. A robust approach to defining each change challenge is paramount to leading change effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction and challenges The level and type of change required in transformations has become increasingly complex and the pace unrelenting, driven often by the constantly evolving role of technology both in society and our working lives.\u00a0 At the same time, the ability to focus on people and understand their needs, worries and personal motivational drivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5401,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Change management - Argon &amp; Co<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/services\/transformation-management\/change-management\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Change management - Argon &amp; 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