Leading your talent acquisition team through change | Talent Connect 2016

Nick Stannard Manager, Customer Success, LinkedIn

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to

change often.” – Winston Churchill

Will Leahy Global Performance Consultant, LinkedIn

“Everybody has a plan until they get

punched in the face” – Mike Tyson

Today’s

agenda

• Change management defined

• Becoming a “Change Agent”

• One simple framework

• Theory in practice

• Practical application

• Q&A

How did that make you feel? This refers to us

tricking the

audience about

changing rooms

during our intros

Change Management helps: Reduce disruptions to people and business

Drive intended behavior

What is Change Management?

Remove barriers:

• How could this fail?

• Connect change to the broader mission

and vision – WIIFM?

Managing change should be about helping your people understand the

organizational changes and the value received from transforming the business

% Of change

management efforts

fail to achieve target

impact

What is a Change Agent?

What do Change Agents do?

• Change agents encourage employees to support the

transformation in their daily actions, behaviors, and attitudes

• Change agents take initiative, remain positive, & employ empathy

Why is a change agent important?

• Projects require employee commitment for success and leaders

• Play a critical role in engaging and protecting employees and

gaining employee commitment and buy-in

• Who will guide people through the change curve?

Famous Change Agents – Who Do YOU Relate to?

Change Journey Across the Transformation

Perf

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Time

“The

Valley of

Despair”

Change frameworks can be overly complex…

Navigating Through Change Management

1. Inspire – Get People Excited 2. Educate – Drive Understanding

3. Measure – Track Success with Data 4. Reward – Reinforce Positive Behaviors

Manage change and drive adoption in 4 easy steps…

Theory in Practice

Inspire

Educate Measure

Reward

• Have a senior leader kick off

the initiative in a town hall

meeting

• Host a contest for team that

comes up with the best

change slogan

• Connect the

change to the

mission, vision, &

values of the

organization

• Have a “kick-off day” for the

change dedicated to learning

and practicing

• Post important collateral on

an internal micro-site or wiki

• Clearly define exactly what

success looks like

• Define 3

quantifiable

measures to asses

adoption and

progress on goals

• Send the top adopter on a

weekend vacation

• Recognize top

adopters during a

team meeting and

promote them

Putting the human back in Human Resources

Let’s get practical

• Define Audience

• Create Delivery Schedule

• Assign resources and curriculum

Solution Analysis

• Develop Training Collateral

• Design Assessments

• Assign Resources

Solution Development • Deliver Training

• Administer Assessments

Delivery

• Provide coaching and feedback

• Assess needs

• Conduct refresher training

Evaluation

Insert Change

Management

Sr. Director to host kickoff call

Design interactive

learning day with small groups

Report out on goal attainment individually and

as a group

Celebrate success and

deliver results

Inspire Educate Measure Reward

Change Across the Transformation

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e

Time

“The valley

of despair”

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