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By Ken Long

You are in a leadership position in your workplace and a combination of internal and extra pressures demands that your organization changes to remain relevant in your marketplace. What roles do you see for yourself as a manager in leading and managing the required change? If you decide that you need training and education to help your people through the transition time, what should you look for in an effective change management program?

This article will shed light on both of these important issues for you and help guide your initial steps in the process. 

It’s extremely important for managers to support both the change management process in the final form of the change as decided by the organization and its leadership. Hopefully your process for change management will include a lot of input from first-line leaders and your workers because they are in a position to know most about the likely impact of the change. They will also be in a position to find innovative ways to implement the change for best results. That said, your role as a manager is extremely important.

Your role in supporting change should include:

Helping your people to understand and interpret change and the impact on team members.

Encourage them to view change and the anxiety it can cause team members as natural and inevitable.

Be a source of strength and encouragement to assist team members as they adjust to change.

Make sure that your process will involve team members in the process of change.

Be sensitive to your people’s needs in order to help team members make the change.

Make sure that you follow up on the initial meeting to make sure adjustment to the change is going as planned.

Your active participation in the change management process especially as applied to these six areas will ensure that you get the best possible results going forward. Your team relies upon you to ensure that our process as well as our results are a high-quality experience.

Ken Long, Chief of Research, Tortoise Capital Management : www.tortoisecapital.com

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