Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions That Keep Change Leaders Up at Night

Those charged with leading change initiatives are generally chosen - that is, they do not choose themselves - to lead or manage big change projects, and, after a short briefing, are left on their own to succeed or fail in an uncertain, often threatening world. These change leaders can range from the inexperienced to the unwilling to the terrified, and frequently their future career path depends on how they manage the change project.        By preparing them for the questions they must answer, Change with Confidence builds confidence in leaders managing change projects. Over 20-plus years leading big change projects for major corporations in Canada, the US, the UK, and around the world, Phil Buckley has seen a pattern to what leaders dont know about managing change. Hes compiled the top 50 questions that keep change managers up at night, and provided answers with prescriptive advice and war stories of what hes seen go right--and wrong--in each area.        Although every change has its own circumstances, there are proven processes, tactics, and behaviors that lead to sustainable success. The book is structured around the fifty biggest questions that change leaders ask time and again, and it provides the context, examples, and advice to answer them well, and to enable successful, sustainable change. Change with Confidence offers an accessible and approachable way into a difficult and stressful topic.

Complete, actionable answers to the fifty burning questions managers routinely ask about how to manage change successfully In this book a change management professional with nearly a quarter-century's experience arms change leaders with complete, actionable solutions the most challenging questions they are likely to face. Over the course of his career leading big change projects in major corporations in the US, UK and Canada, Phil Buckley has detected a pattern to what leaders typically dont know about managing change in their organizations. In Change with Confidence, he distils that pattern down to the top fifty questions that keep change managers up nights, and he provides the kinds of prescriptive answers they need to cure their insomnia and instil them with the confidence they need to successfully tackle any change project. Offers advice in clear, easily digestible chunks, and an accessible and approachable way into a difficult and stressful topic Written in a quick-reference Q-and-A format, it provides concise, yet thorough answers illustrated with many real-world examples Every chapter features war stories from change projects that went right--and a few that went horribly wrong--along with full-length case studies from top organizations across industries Supplies proven techniques for information gathering, delivering the desired business benefits, managing the people side of change, and much more