Who and What is Killing Your Change Initiative?

Change initiatives, whether small or large often start out with the good intentions of the leader, leadership team, department head or board of directors.  As change intiatives start to be integrated into an organization's fabric, however, they usually end up dead.  Without alignment strategies among the staff who typically kill initiatives, an organization does not have much hope for sustaining the momentum necessary to proceed with the change process.  Only through the recruitment of change advocates  their commitment to the initiative and holding them accountable for contributing their time and talents can change be realized.  This section will describe how team leaders can identify and predict how staff will react to a pending change and create a process to involve them in a change initiative before, during and after the change initiative process begins.