ELIMINATE FEAR

Advocate business process change and you invite a multitude of costs and risks. Transformation risks include: stress, confusion, fatigue, project delays, decreased productivity, budget overruns, rework, loss of work, and expense.

What You Can Do: Empower your pursuit and identify statistical data. Data will minimize employee fears and employee resistance.

DECREASE FATIGUE

Employees get tired, overloaded and overwhelmed when confronted with change.

What You Can Do: Minimize the threat and give your employees energy and motivation. Task analyze your transformation into small sub-sections. Explicitly define goals. Schedule changes in increments. Propose one piece at a time and you are far more likely to maintain commitment, loyalty, and faith.

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INCREASE LOYALTY

Employees prefer to remain emotionally connected to their colleagues. Promoting modifications separates you from them.

What you Can Do: You are a visionary, so you must show compassion and carefully select your delivery language. Don’t offend your colleagues and tell them what to do, what needs to be done, or what is wrong. Analyze how your improvement will positively and directly impact. Open the business process change conversation as a pilot program that will bring company wide improvement.