The resisting people may show it through intentionally stalling the process, put less focus on the changes, find a workaround to ‘cheat’, or even totally avoid the change. Expect and embrace this as this naturally happens in every change, accept that some people will resist therefore you need to address it well especially on soft side approach.

Give the resistance a voice early as seeking their input and feedback early in the process will eventually turned them as supporter. Sometimes a simple concession softened their resistance. Seek approaches to make amends for what employees may lose in a change. Human feelings don’t lend themselves to metrics and benchmarks, so addressing smooth emotions stays a critical venture in any new initiative. You should remember to acknowledge their concerns, encourage them to express their concerns and don’t react defensively.

To have a proper and success training, you should follow several best practices:1. Deliver it in small chunks – smaller pieces are easily to be digested2. Close each chuck with a small win – build momentum towards your training goal3. Consider having a ‘official training centre’ – it will help if some people may need in-class training instead of self-pace training4. Get your superuser – build a team of superuser who will help to answer in daily activity as they are closer to the people4. Reinforce the teaching – you may need to leverage your weekly calls with the people to refresh the teaching

Soft side mostly has challenge in facing people concern. Common concern from people impacted are: competence – what I need to learn after the change?; efficiency – is it gonna make me work longer?; security & stability – how about my take home pay?; status – how about my position?; relationships – how about my leaders/teams?While hard side mostly facing challenges in achieving organizational outcome. Common mistakes on hard side may include: unclear motivation, wrongly assessing the complexity, getting feedback from wrong people, over-optimistic timeline, too rigid as changes may need agility.

Challenges for Soft and Hard Side

Change management done effectively, requieres us to integrate the hard and the soft

Resistance can come from many levels. If people withinside the organization don’t help a change, they’ll withstand it intentionally or subconsciously. Sometimes the motives for resistance are obvious – for example, a change includes people movements, even layoffs, this will create a huge insecurity and resist.

Expect and Embrace the Resistance

During the deep dive and getting analysis from the stakeholders, you can determine who are your supporters and who most likely will resist. Group them based on their potential degree of resistance. Get these potential resistances into your supporter group.

Anticipate the Resistance

To set an achievable milestone, have a clear deliverables criterion, you need to have a deep dive analysis, especially form the stakeholders. You must keep away from not communicating truly with the those who in the end execute the initiative. Stakeholder evaluation means figuring out who the change will have an effect on, how it's going to have an effect on them and the way intensely the initiative will adjust their work lives.

Always Include Your Stakeholder Analysis

Each milestone should be considered as a small win, which this will build momentums rolling towards your goal. When you achieve small wins and celebrate them, you convince people the project is a good idea, and you quiet naysayers. This is a very good implementation for soft side approach.

Making Small Wins Towards the Big Win

Any changes require employees to learn new things. Training people to adopt new process/system is an important aspect of any change. Therefore, training is an important part of the hard side of change management. Training matters also to the soft side of the change management due to the fact that change shakes people's feel of competence and self-assurance. If the employer instills self-assurance thru a well-established education program, people can construct a feel of self-warranty that contains throughout the current change initiative and into future initiatives.

Always Plan and Execute a Proper Training

To deliver a smooth change, you need both side of approach done in balance. Hard side may include setting up a timeline, milestones, or clear deliverables criteria; getting your resources; establish a specific RACI matrix; and build a monitoring process. While the soft side may include approach to people impacted; having a clear, consistent, and truthful communication channels; listening people’s feedback and concern; and engaging people so they feel included.

Change Management is Balancing Hard and Soft Approach

Stakeholder analysis starts with a period of brainstorming and research. You ought to list everyone whom the change may affect. Consider stakeholder evaluation as a work in progress. If you find out an unnoticed stakeholder organization in the research process, add it to the analysis. From there, use their evaluation to tailor communications and education to the particular needs of every organization. Stakeholder analysis influences the hard aspect of change via way of means of keeping off costly mistakes, and the soft aspect via way of means of addressing stakeholders’ fears and concerns.

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Change isn’t going anywhere. Learn how to manage it. We live in a wild world of volatility, unpredictability, chaos, and ambiguity, with change seemingly as the only constant. Change can be difficult. It often induces resistance, panic, and fatigue. And, as you may expect or have experienced first-hand, many organizations aren’t handling change all that well, with many efforts resulting in failure. What you may not realize, however, is that some workplace change initiatives are stunning successes, rolling out smoothly and more easily embraced. Why do some change initiatives fail while others succeed? How can organizations and employees handle change better? In The Hard and Soft Sides of Change Management, Kathryn Zukof offers practices and approaches to help you and your organization roll out, receive, and manage change effectively. Namely, Zukof shows that you need to manage the process (or the “hard”) side and the people (or the “soft”) side of change and find the sweet spot between the two. She demonstrates that when you integrate both sides, you and your organization can make change less of a hit-or-miss affair. Successful change management means deploying sound project management techniques that increase the odds of achieving the outcomes of your change initiative. It also means helping employees understand the need and vision for change, so they feel less threatened by it and become excited and energized by what’s ahead. To deliver best results, you need to: • Define the change and how to get there—with project charters and plans. • Involve the right people in the right ways—from dedicated change teams to affected stakeholders. • Build support, understanding, and awareness—with communication, training, and resistance management plans. • Assess progress and adjust along the way—through action reviews and steps to tackle thorny issues. Capturing the inherently messy nature of workplace change—from technology implementations, mergers and acquisitions, and business transformations to office relocations and more—this book offers tangible insights to help you and your organization tackle change challenges. Follow the book’s tools and practices to lessen the messy and objectionable parts of change and actively give your change initiatives the best chance for positive outcomes.

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Change isn’t going anywhere. Learn how to manage it.We live in a wild world of volatility, unpredictability, chaos, and ambiguity, with change seemingly as the only constant. Change can be difficult. It often induces resistance, panic, and fatigue. And, as you may expect or have experienced first-hand, many organizations aren’t handling change all that well, with many efforts resulting in failure. What you may not realize, however, is that some workplace change initiatives are stunning successes, rolling out smoothly and more easily embraced. Why do some change initiatives fail while others succeed? How can organizations and employees handle change better? In The Hard and Soft Sides of Change Management, Kathryn Zukof offers practices and approaches to help you and your organization roll out, receive, and manage change effectively. Namely, Zukof shows that you need to manage the process (or the “hard”) side and the people (or the “soft”) side of change and find the sweet spot between the two. She demonstrates that when you integrate both sides, you and your organization can make change less of a hit-or-miss affair. Successful change management means deploying sound project management techniques that increase the odds of achieving the outcomes of your change initiative. It also means helping employees understand the need and vision for change, so they feel less threatened by it and become excited and energized by what’s ahead. To deliver best results, you need to:•	Define the change and how to get there—with project charters and plans.•	Involve the right people in the right ways—from dedicated change teams to affected stakeholders.•	Build support, understanding, and awareness—with communication, training, and resistance management plans.•	Assess progress and adjust along the way—through action reviews and steps to tackle thorny issues.Capturing the inherently messy nature of workplace change—from technology implementations, mergers and acquisitions, and business transformations to office relocations and more—this book offers tangible insights to help you and your organization tackle change challenges. Follow the book’s tools and practices to lessen the messy and objectionable parts of change and actively give your change initiatives the best chance for positive outcomes.

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