Benefits and risks

PROCESS BENEFIT IF USED RISK IF IGNORED
Personal change journey    
  • Taking individuals through the steps of Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement (ADKAR) about the change
  • Understanding of the personal impact and support for individuals in making the change happen
  • Clarity about the change and my role in it
  • Help to manage the stress involved in change by ensuring a managed process that included information, skills and coaching to enable and embed new capabilities
  • Organisational change elements may be implemented but change is not properly embedded by staff
  • No lasting change and lower than anticipated benefits

Knowledge and skill management

   
  • Determine whether employees impacted by the change have the requisite knowledge and skill to meet new ways of working
  • Develop training and knowledge management strategies to effectively enable the operational change
  • Identify competency strengths that can be exploited to support change
  • Directs attention and resource to training and support interventions most likely to be effective and deliver change benefits
  • Faster time to competency: employees more quickly able to perform in new jobs, use new systems etc.
  • No clear picture of knowledge and skills gap resulting in implementation of ineffective change interventions
  • Slower speed to competency, higher costs
  • Drop in service quality or productivity for business as usual