Manager's Guide to Navigating Change

Competition is fiercer than ever and your executives are pushing for transformational-sized changes. As a manager, you have been asked to implement those changes quickly and effectively. You've been told to "use organizational change management" to be successful. Your challenge is that nobody can give you a clear definition of what organizational change management really is. At least you got acronym right: OCM!

Manager's Guide to Navigating Change is your organizational change management guidebook. With its easy to read style, Manager's Guide to Navigating Change provides you the tools, techniques and tips to lead a change effort in a structured manner so you can operationalize the changes that your executives want. In it you will learn about:

• How to organize the work of a change initiative into a simple framework.
• The nine points of alignment that are required to ensure your change is sustainable.
• The five strategies that work in every change initiative.
• How to set your management up into an effective change governance structure.
• How the principles of a change project apply whether it is a systems implementation, a reorganization or an acquisition integration.

Most importantly, Manager's Guide to Navigating Change isn't focused on theoretical approaches. Manager's Guide is written so that you can put organizational change management concepts to work right away. With it, you will be able to personally lead people through a large-scale change in a successful manner.

About the Author

Stephen Rock is a change management consultant and the founder of The Brookside Group, an organizational change management consulting firm based in Kansas City, Missouri. Stephen is a hands-on consultant who works with senior leaders to help lead their organizations through transformational change. He focuses on ensuring change sustainability by aligning organizations and processes to the business's strategies. He works with Fortune 1,000-sized companies on reorganizations, transformations, large-scale system implementations (particularly SAP implementations), as well as acquisition integrations.

He is the author of Manager's Guide to Navigating Change which is part of McGraw-Hill's Briefcase Books series. He blogs about his change management consulting experiences on OrgReadiness.com. He is also a frequent speaker on organizational change management. Stephen is currently working primarily as an independent, but frequently draws upon on a network of consultants affiliated with his company. He has worked in a wide variety of industries and has experience managing change management programs on a global scale.