Our Beliefs
The volume of change in our organisations has never been higher and is moving at a rate that we struggle to cope with. We need practical, intuitive, simple coping strategies to enable us to make sense of:
- What has changed
- What is changing next
- What we need to do differently
These coping strategies must address the multiple changes taking place, as we are trying to understand the potential impact of the latest changes, whilst at the same time designing new ways of working for current changes and practising how to work differently for things we have already changed.
Change can be a stressful emotional experience, because it generates uncertainty of what is expected of us. This uncertainty leads to anxiety and stress, which is made worse by the need to achieve change whilst still performing our work.
If we can lead ourselves and those around us through change, we can reduce this stress. Our workplaces are less stressful, we are less stressed at home, we are less stressed in our communities. An ability to cope and thrive during change is an important mental health issue.
Our Service
We build your capability for change at work. To us, capability means a combination of skills and the confidence to use those skills to get things done. After all, we might know how to do something, but unless we have the self-belief in our abilities, we will not do it. Ability is not enough, it must be partnered with confidence.
The techniques, guidance and support that you access via our ChangeabilityPro® ensures you learn skills that help you make change happen, and you practice, learn lessons from examples, get advice from how others have used these solutions so that you can confidently apply them to your own situation.
Our Values
We keep things simple – easier said than done, because to simplify something means understanding the most useful and relevant elements and focusing only on these
We keep things fresh – important, but requires a lot of work from our focus groups, and team of change experts and our developers to ensure you have a continuous stream of new practical techniques, relevant to the situations you are experiencing
We focus on how not what – we make sure we provide answers, respecting your time by giving you step by step answers on how to do something because we know you do not have lots of time to learn about what you should be doing, you want to get straight to the advice and guidance from our highly experienced team of change experts.
The best way to demonstrate our values is to describe how we treat each other – we all have different talents and abilities and whatever our job role, we believe that everyone has a contribution to make. We are personally responsible for sharing our ideas and our perspectives, because any one of us can have an idea but it might not be the best idea. Sharing our thoughts with our colleagues helps us develop our thinking, and benefit from a wider pool of suggestions, specialist knowledge, enthusiasm and support.
The techniques, guidance and support that you access via our ChangeabilityPro® ensures you learn skills that help you make change happen, and you practice, learn lessons from examples, get advice from how others have used these solutions so that you can confidently apply them to your own situation.
Our Purpose
We have an involvement gap in organisational change. We have full time specialists, in roles including project and programme teams, product owners, product managers, change managers, business analysts, who are all creating the changes that are designed to achieve the organisational objectives. There are those who will have to work in new ways – but they already have full time jobs and can only give some discretionary time to making change happen.
But… there is too much change for it to be achieved by only a small team of specialists. We need our stakeholders to act. We need them to be part of the resource pool for change. We need to mobilise all those affected by the change, generating their participation in creating, practising, and adopting new ways of working.
This is a big ask, because there are plenty of reasons why they don’t want to get involved.
• Change is risky
• Too much noise, not enough being heard
• Increased cynicism
• Competition for the same resources
These factors taken together feed each other, strengthening the reasons for avoiding the change. Our Change Capability Hub is designed to address these reasons and enable everyone to play their part in making change happen – for themselves, their team and their organisation.
Our History
Our relationship with Agile Change Management – a personal message from Melanie Franklin.
Over the last 10 years, my training, coaching and consultancy work has been delivered from my company Agile Change Management. During this time, my focus has developed and evolved, meaning it is so much more than an Agile Change approach. My passion and attention has grown to become creating an ability to not only cope, but to thrive through organisational change.
This has lead to the development of my new service called ChangeabilityPro® which is a platform to access immediate practical help to overcome any blockers to change that are holding you back. Working with a new group of experts, this work is delivered by a 2nd company called Capability for Change Limited.
