Change Management for HR

It is both an extremely challenging and exciting time to work in HR, and your perspective may depend on how equipped you are to embrace change yourself.

As organisations grapple with sustaining culture in a hybrid working environment and the continued pace of change in technology and ways of workings, HR’s time to shine has definitely come. Never has the people agenda been so obviously linked to the strategy (although some of us would argue that link has always been there…!).

And yet,  in our conversations with HR professionals, we often hear stories of feeling like they are in the midst of a storm at sea – imagine the wind is howling, the waves are crashing, and they are not actually sure they will make it to shore!  There may be a lifeboat there, but it requires them to jump into the deep end, and it feels risky. They are dealing with changing technology, AI, increasing demands from stakeholders to live up to and evolving expectations at all levels. It is not that the changes aren’t understood and appreciated, but we are in completely unchartered territory, and sitting it out and waiting for it to pass is not an option.

The HR function can play an important role in helping navigate organisational turbulence and uncertainty through change management. HR professionals have an integral role to play when their organisation is managing change and often must act as an agent of change – a conduit that is present from initial planning through to execution. At the core of a HR role is people management – how we make changes is at least as important as ‘what’ we change, and that ‘how’ inevitably involves people. We need to be the champions of how people think, feel and behave and learn new approaches to our own work. 

To build organisational change capability for HR professionals, our Change Professional 3-Day Program is designed to support participants in being managers and leaders of organisational change.

The program covers the end-to-end lifecycle of Organisational Change, providing a framework, irrespective of the methodologies that the business uses. The participants will cover, in depth:

• Defining the change and building the approach;
• Mobilising the leaders and preparing the people;
• Enabling the organisation; and
• Sustaining the change.

You can find out more information or register for the program here.