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- 1. Do Your Drills to Learn Agility In the age of Covid-19,change has become the normrather than exception,bothin one’s personal life aswell asinthe workplace.However,humansstruggle withchange evenmore sowith rapidshiftsfromthe norm.In the IT world like inthe business,change isnotsolelyaboutthe technology,butcircumstance thatcause disruption, be itanew software orthe way we do work. To encourage change andshiftinto somethingnew, we have tohumanizethe process, aswell asgather supportfromthe workplace culture.Thesesourcesinclude yourformal andinformal leaders,the influencers,andchampionsof the change. Inthe workplace,these linkagesbetweeninnovation, leadership,culture,knowledge,andtechnologycandetermine the successof how anorganizationcan adapt to theirchangingenvironment. Covid-19has exposedbusinessweaknessinwhattheythought they understoodabouthowthe workforce is to function,alongwiththe agilityof the organization. Some organizationswere able to shiftonthe flyandothershad to rushand developpolicyandprocedures andmodificationto infrastructure tohandle employeesnowworkingremote.Inanumberof findings,the literatures showedthatworkplace culture hasa significateimpactonanorganization’s agility.Eventhough innovationisnotovertlyseen,it isimpliedwiththe introductionof change withintheir organization whichimpacts the workplace culture and organization’sagility. Human factorplaysa significaterole inacompany’sagility. Gone are the daysof the factory workerand strictlytopdownleadership.Organizationsare startingtobecome more hybrid andflatten the hierocracy to take advantage of the organizational knowledgeof the company. Gothelf (2020) article Storytelling can makeor Break yourleadership,mentionedhumanizationof yourstory. Like change you have to humanize itforitto be acceptedby staff.How doesone do that? Personal experience: People want to be able to feel that they are not in this change alonebut partof the collective. Nothing feels worsethan feeling aloneand more than ever in this COVID-19 impacted world it is important for organizations to humanize change. Humble: It seems strange that humility is part of the process of change or even innovation.Itis the idea that everyonemakesmistakes. It is important that message is conveyed to the organization. It is not the mistake but how the team solves it that is important. Some of the critical stepstoapplyingchange isengagingthe organizationatall levelsbyhaving, change agents, controlled risk-takinganddevelopingaculture willingtoadaptto change and willingto see mistakesasa learningopportunity.Encouragingchange inthe organizationrequiresthe leadersto take a hardand realisticlookattheirorganizational needsandthis should forcesleaderstolookattheir managementstyle,whichmightrequirefurtherdevelopment,suchasincludingemotional intelligence.
- 2. Furthermore,anorganizationthatdoesnotsupportcreativityandself-developmentforstaff will alsobe challengedtoadaptandbe innovative.The use of change methodologysuchasADKAR(awareness, desire,knowledge,ability,reinforcement),andprovide “whitespace”forstaff togrow knowledgeand be innovative.Theseare afewof the support that staff needtoensure thatpeople are readyfor change. Thisis part of a seriesof shortarticlesaroundchange,innovation,andorganizational culture. Reference Gothelf,J.(2020). StorytellingCanMake or Break youLeadership. HBR.com Mitchell,C.(2019). Strategiesneeded by publicagency administratorsto successfully apply technological innovations (OrderNo.27663874). RetrievedfromProQuestDissertations& ThesesGlobal. (2404072843).