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How to Manage and Embrace Change

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The Facilities Environment

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Goals

• Understanding the need for change

• Effective tools to lead change

• Leader's responsibilities for effective change

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Where to start

• Begin with what you know

• Build on that knowledge

• Use resources within your group

• Get buy in with key players

• Use the group’s combined experience to support the change

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Origin of change

• Change initiated by you or your department

• Change initiated from higher administration

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What You Know

• Current state– Processes and

procedures in place– What is working well – What needs to be

changed

• Desired state– Needed changes have

been implemented and fine tuned

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Perspectives on Change

• Who will the change effect

• Is this a fundamental change

• Is this an incremental change

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Incremental Change

• An extension of the past

• Consistent with established norms

• In agreement with conventional values

• Easy to learn with prior knowledge

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Fundamental Change

• A definitive break with the past

• Does not conform to existing norms

• Inconsistent with conventional values

• Requires new knowledge

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Perspectives of Change

• Do all stakeholders see the change in the same way?

• What tools can we use to facilitate change in a positive manner?

• How do we create buy in for needed change?

• How do we provide guidance through the change?

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Why?

• Why do we need to change?

• If it’s not broken, why fix it?

• But we’ve always done it this way!

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Make the Change Successful

• Identify key players

• Plant the seeds of success

• Follow up and evaluate success

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Recount

• What change needed to occur

• How do you lead that change

• What responsibility did you take to ensure a successful change

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Be the Change You Want to See

“What you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you say.”Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything… or nothing.”

Lady Astor

“Do or do not.There is no try.”

Yoda