For business leaders and HR managers
You have a change coming, and a team that will carry it.
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The Prechange Way
The first step from managing change to evolving with it.
The Prechange Way prepares the conditions people need (energy, headroom, perspective and routines) so they can absorb change before it begins. It adds one stage. It replaces nothing.
Where to startSukant Ratnakar, CMC · author of Prechange
Where to start
Three ways in
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1The real cause
We call it resistance.
It is often depletion.
- Tired
- Overloaded
- Short of time to think
- Seeing the change from only one angle
The people were not unwilling. The conditions for change were missing.
2What it is
Adds one stage.
Replaces nothing.
Keep your change team and your change method. Before the rollout plan meets people, someone looks at the state those people are in and improves it where they can.
NEWPrechange workbuilds the capacity to change
Change managementyour current team and method
The change holdspeople adopt it, and keep it
The rollout still happens. It simply lands on people who can carry it.
3The Prechange Framework
Four conditions people need before they can change.
Energy
Decides whether people can invest or must conserve.
Headroom
Decides whether there is room to think and take on more.
Perspective
Shapes whether a change looks like a threat or a problem to solve.
Routines
Decide whether a change holds or quietly slips back.
The Prechange Check measures the conditions around people, not the people. It asks how you experience four conditions at work: energy, headroom, perspective and routines. It is not a measure of performance, ability, adaptability or character, and it must never be used to judge, select, rate or reward anyone. When someone reports low energy or worry about a change, we read that as information about the conditions they work in, not as a verdict on them.
Capacity is the precondition for adaptability.
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Prechange
Building the Capacity to Adapt Before Change Begins
Sukant Ratnakar, CMC · Systovation Publications
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About the author
Sukant Ratnakar, CMC
For three decades, Sukant has managed change inside organizations in the UK, Canada, India, Oman and Dubai. He is a Certified Management Consultant and the author of Change Anesthesiology and The Sunfish Paradox. Where the Prechange Way comes from →
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A video call about the changes ahead, for your organization or for your clients. You decide what, if anything, comes next.
Sukant Ratnakar, CMC
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