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27 Principles of Change Management

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Change Management is the leadership of organizational change. This is a process of building support for change, helping the agents of change, sidelining resistance, clearing issues and shaping a change as it moves forward. Change management benefits from first principles that are guidelines for how to shape and achieve change in an environment of resistance, ambiguity and constraint. The following are examples of change management principles.

Social Principle

Conversations are the source of change.

Story Principle

Storytelling shapes the future. Every great change has a great story.

Anticipatory Principle

People move towards their vision of the future.

Urgency Principle

Create a sense of urgency around change.

Positive Principle

Change moves with positivity. Negativity may ground change.

Agents of Change

People emerge who push a change forward.

Resistance to Change

People emerge who will resist change.

Communication Principle

Change is communicated and socialized.

Coalition Principle

Organizational changes require cooperation, acceptance and social momentum.

Transparency Principle

Needless secrecy is avoided.

Transition Principle

There may be many transitional states required to achieve a future vision.

Measurement Principle

If it can be measured, it can be improved.

Benchmarking Principle

Compare results to evaluate change.

Appreciative Inquiry

Build on what is already working.

Disagree and Commit

There is a time for debating change and a time for everyone to commit to a plan.

Emergent Change

The plan changes with time as you move forward.

Preserving Ambiguity

Avoid making assumptions too early in a change.

Last Responsible Moment

Make decisions when they really need to be made.

Worse is Better

Adding more to a change can reduce its value.

Keep it Simple

Complexity for the sake of complexity is waste.

Essential Complexity

Minimalism for the sake of minimalism is waste. Complexity often adds value.

There’s More Than One Way to Do It

There is no perfect plan, just many good plans.

Fail Well

Design prototypes and experiments that fail quickly, cheaply and safely.

Minimum Viable Product

Get changes out in the real world quickly.

Pareto Principle

Avoid perfectionism, 80% of value may come from the first 20% of effort.

Ship Often

Change is structured into small parts that can be quickly completed.

Trough Of Sorrow

Change begins in excitement and progresses towards disillusionment before bouncing back towards excitement as it gains traction and successes.
More about change management:
Agents Of Change
Anticipating Objections
Bias For Action
Big Bang Adoption
Business Change
Business Stakeholders
Business Transformation
Change
Change Agent
Change Analysis
Change Characteristics
Change Drivers
Change Fatigue
Change Impact
Change Management
Change Plan
Change Planning
Change Principles
Change Process
Change Readiness
Change Resistance
Change Risk
Change Strategy
Choice Architecture
Communication Mgmt
Contingency Planning
Crashing
Defeatism
Emergent Change
Goal Setting
Impact Analysis
Implementation
Influencing
Initial Excitement
Internalization
Lessons Learned
Message Framing
Mission
Nudge Theory
Organizing Principle
Pull
Push
Resistance To Change
Restructuring
Revenue Impact
Scope Creep
Sidelining
Status Quo
Turnaround Management
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