4 Ways to Make Change Stick

There are many reasons why organisations might want to introduce change: to drive growth, a change in leadership, a new strategic agenda, external pressures, poor performance, low productivity, lack of innovation, poor morale, and so on.

Whatever the reason, organisations soon realise that to achieve significant change they will also need their people to adopt new behaviours. So to have any chance of achieving change you first need to achieve behavioural change. To affect behaviour change, organisations often opt to implement new behavioural models. So how do organisations make behavioural change stick?

1. It’s Not You, It’s Me!

It’s dangerous to assume that the onus for change is on others. If, for example, the organisation wants to encourage creativity and innovation but Leaders and Managers persist in telling others what to do, then creativity is unlikely to flourish.