Change Management is the Umbrella for all your Innovation, Excellence and Leadership Campaigns

We heard this many times: Change is Everywhere! We are continuously advancing, improving, tinkering and even disrupting our own products, operations and organisational models. Recent conversations, studies and experiences confirmed this again: to be successful with these initiatives, we need to bring people together and enable an effective collaboration. "We build people; and these people build our business." And, this people side of the business is the concern of Change Management.

Now, many companies have engaged in a series of different frameworks and concepts in order to bring their initiatives forward. And in recent years I have become proficient and excited about them. Here some examples.

• Agility is about enhancing products and solutions via experimentation and iterations; providing a space to self-organising team to continuously adjust their focus on where they create the most value for their customers.
  
• Design Thinking is about creating new solutions based on a deep understanding of our customers; this customer centricity is developed with empathy and a strong focus on co-creation across silos within and beyond the company borders.
  
• Lean management is about improving our operations by identifying barriers and directing efforts to reduce friction and waste - taking a holistic view.
  
• Leadership principles among others focus on allowing faster decision making, create safe work environments, and aim at providing an engaging and meaningful workplace; typically with a defining values and cultural assets.

All these concepts look at the mindset and the behaviour of people and are designed to enable the success of your projects and initiatives. They are very much concerned about the people side of doing business.

This is where I recently made the link that change management actually acts as an umbrella to all these initiatives. They can be brought together by creating a common platform and defining how they support each other (instead of stealing resources from each other). Change management can then facilitate a set of leadership qualities, creating a glue between the individuals and silos, and as a result enables longterm success through collaboration.

At Hive17 Consulting we drive people excellence through positive leadership. We assess individuals and teams with our Antifragility Score and our leadership development programs then allow these teams to strengthen their people skills and drive success for their projects.