Change Leadership

Change for Good: Change Leadership

Here's a troubling truth: Only about half of the companies that set out to create a large-scale change succeed. The reason? Most don't have leaders trained in Change Leadership. Change Leadership is a specific skill that is often overlooked or misunderstood. Recognizing that investing in people makes a significant difference to the bottom line, change leaders are essential for success and sustainability. Examples of change projects might include developing or deploying an outreach program, implementing a new quality improvement program, or consolidating hospital operations.

Our proprietary Change Leadership program will help you train effective change leaders. Ascendium provides the road map you need, and can be complemented with tailored executive level coaching on Change Leadership.

With this program, you can expect to:

• increase acceptance for, and accelerate, change initiatives
• structure the change with a clear framework
• increase effectiveness and probability for success
• avoid costly failures or delays
• empower leaders, managers and employees

Sample Engagement

Healthcare Facility:

Large commercial blood and plasma center with more than 1,000 employees.

Project Goals:

• develop a framework to help the Quality Action Team implement process improvement across the organization
• attain a clear picture of the actual state of the business in preparation of a potential corporate sale
• improve employee satisfaction and maintain loyalty through a potential merger

Ascendium Solutions:

• provided Quality Action Team and management with workshops on managing strategic change within an organization
• supplied tools for coaching the management team on retaining employees and motivating their staff to become actively involved in upcoming quality initiatives
• helped increase acceptance of impending change
• provided tools to improve like this Lean technique of "Visual Management"

Bottom Line Results:

• gave coaching sessions and workshops to over 450 participants
• improved blood plasma cycle testing turnaround within three months by 68%
• implemented 89% of all recommended process improvements within three months
• received significant positive feedback from external customers regarding the impact of the change program