Kate Nelson
Partner,
Change Guides
   

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Level: Experienced    Topic Area: Best Practices, How-to, Case Study

Pecha Kucha Presentation: "The GPS for Your Change Journey: Change Readiness Assessments"

No one should start a trip without a map, compass, or their trusty GPS. A change initiative is no different. Change Readiness Assessments help you define your starting point, chart your course and track progress along the way.

A good GPS helps us define "where are we" and "how do we get to our destination"? Similarly, a Change Readiness Assessment pinpoints our enablers and barriers to change (where are we) and guides what should be included in our change management workplan (how do we get to our destination).

In this session, you will learn why having a Change Readiness strategy is important to your project's success and how to conduct effective Change Readiness Assessments. We will talk about what specific types of data to gather, and how to gather it. And we will discuss what steps we should take after assessing Change Readiness to put the information gathered to good use.

Key Takeaways:

  1. Understand what Change Readiness Assessments are and why they are important

  2. Understand how to assess Change Readiness

  3. Understand what types of information to gather when assessing Change Readiness

  4. Understand what to do after assessing Change Readiness

Biography:
Kate Nelson is a Partner with Change Guides LLC. She is the co-author of two popular books on organizational change - "The Change Management Pocket Guide" published in 2005 and "The Eight Constants of Change" published in 2008. "The Change Management Pocket Guide" is in the top half percent of all books sold on Amazon.com.

Kate has more than 18 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies worldwide to help them manage change in their organizations. Her clients have spanned the Consumer Products, Life Sciences and Manufacturing industries. Kate has authored countless articles in regionally and nationally distributed publications and is frequently sought out and cited as an expert in the field of organizational change. Kate earned a BS from The College of William and Mary, an MBA from the Fisher School of Business and an MS from the School of Natural Resources at Ohio State University.

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