Scary Change Management Definitions - End State Change ...

I found something SCARY for today!

Change management is an approach to shifting/transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state. It is an organizational process aimed at helping change stakeholders to accept and embrace changes in their business environment.^{[citation needed]} In some project management contexts, change management refers to a project management process wherein changes to a project are formally introduced and approved.^[1]

Kotter defines change management as the utilization of basic structures and tools to control any organizational change effort. Change management?s goal is to maximize an organization?s benefits and minimize the change impacts on workers and avoid distractions.^[2]

^Wikipedia

Better to crawl into a cave of bats or lay on a bed of snakes or run through a tangle of spider webs than accept this definition of change management.

It is a fail because it makes CM seem like it is here to ?manage?.

No we do not ?shift? individuals, teams and organizations. (I picture a giant monster who lifts stakeholders up and sets them in a different place). We may help guide them to shifts. We may label something a ?transition? if that will help movement toward the end state. Basically individual choose to shift themselves. Maybe.

I am hereby erasing ?current state to future state? from my memory. When I wake up, after my self inflicted zap, I will stand up from the table and yell, ?I?m alive!!!!?. The WORST thing you can do when it comes to change is focus on the future in relation to the present. The second worst thing you can do is constantly remind yourself this is a ?desired? future. Think of an athlete visualizing a victory as a ?possible? outcome. They better have some real talent?

What you want is to see the present, past and path to an end state from the perspective of the end state. Stand out there and look back.

Accept change? So we are assuming all change has to be ?accepted?? And how do you go from ?acceptance? to embracement? Now THERE is a transition.

At least change the two words to understand and participate (in the) change.

(That next line is more commonly referred to as Change Control).

Don?t get me started on that screeching loud, horrifying Kotter definition. It sounds like Taylor-ism come to CM. Control CM? Really? And there is that word ?impact? again. That, short of ?at the end of the day?, has to be the most tired phrase in business. Distraction? Avoid distractions? Again, really?

I am sure I have many CM definitions buried inside this 730 posts and growing blog?

Here is another one (I don?t expect it to end up on Wikipedia):

Change Management is helping stakeholders to define end states for change, consider organizational history and the present from the perspective of the new future and create a path made up of individual expertise and effort to get to organizational benefit, growth and renewal.

Or something like that.

Minus the too-many-words, it just not seem as scary.

Be afraid of the Wikipedia change management definition.

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Source: http://horizontalchange.com/2012/10/scary-change-management-definitions/

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