In this webinar, Liam Smees, an expert in implementing and managing change in the talent industry, will be sharing his most applicable strategies to help talent teams make the most out of their newly implemented recruiting process.
Why are you making the change?
Its is important that you understand why you are making the change (regardless of what they might be)
You need to articulate it and communicate it
The end user needs to know and believe in why we are changing the status quo
Effective change management begins with clarity on what success looks like .Evaluating current state against ultimate success allows for early identification of potential obstacles, strategies to overcome obstacles and contingency plans to course correct if obstacles cannot be effectively overcome.
But be realistic in the expectations
Break things down into milestones that you want to achieve in each period
Communicate the change in the vision, often, powerfully and convincingly. Connect the vision with all the crucial aspects like performance reviews, training, etc. Handle the concerns and issues of people honestly and with involvement.
Breakdowns are often because of a communication challenge
Transformation and system deployments fail to meet their objectives when the human side of change is not planned for and managed effectively. The Change Management strategy includes building situational awareness of the change – understanding the scope of the change, who is being impacted by the change, etc.
analysis of the risk and resistance to change. Adoptions
2 main areas to strategy
Deliberate – the planned and intentional things
Emergent – things that change all the time and you need to react to them
In order to maximise efforts in achieving both a successful implementation and the business benefits you are looking for, it's important to place emphasis on 4 key areas:
Change Management - Skill baselining, upskilling (levels), training, SME’s, talent communities
Strategy (Global and Local) - Proactive sourcing, Target profiles, effective channels, effective role management, talent pooling
Process - Step by step, tagging, experience design, cheat sheets
-With quick wins early in the process you have early victories you can share as good news stories throughout the team to drive adoption.
- Achieve continuous improvement by analysing the success stories individually and improving from those individual experiences.
Community of practice – trust is the currency of change
Working in a collaborative way. Workshops
Bring people in (need collaborative work, resistance, so aren't too fluffy) internal folks, not just tell and sell
Change Tracking: Using analytics to guide successful change programs.
By tracking the metrics that matter you are in a position to determine how successful your change has been (important to get them in early)
React to things that haven’t gone well and focus efforts on things that have been successful
Change management is a continuos process, learn from what you have done and let it influence the way you work moving forward
Every change is different in every company (that’s why it is contextual and conceptual, facilitate the environment with leaders to set up what works for your business)
Yes, unfortunately too often. It's painful to see because you see so much wasted resource and money on what was fundamentally a good change of strategy. They just needed to set up themselves up for success better. It is also much harder to make the change once the it's gone wrong the first time, as you get a bad taste for it and the resistance to it is already there.
An interesting question. What comes up a lot is when an organisation has a good strategy, a good tool and a solid process, but they haven't fully thought about their end users skill or time restraints. For instance a company where they have HRBP's responsible for recruiting. These people, through no fault of their own don’t have the time or the background to proactively source candidates and changing the technology you use and putting in place a innovative new strategy isn't going to change that. Companies like this need to take a step back and thing about a change in team structure and dynamics.