By Raylene Armstrong, Managing Partner.

Like any good book it is the opening few pages that determine if you continue gripped, or after a little perseverance give up and consign back to the virtual or dusty bookshelf.

Keen gardeners, spend vast amounts of time meticulously preparing the ground long before the beautiful blooms have sprung.

What these examples all have in common is good beginnings. The future outcome is greatly influenced by the preparation put in at the start.

Achieving good change adoption is rightly zoomed in on at go live, but investing time upfront will help ensure the right focus, the right effort, the right engagement, and right plan needed to make the change a real success.

Short circuiting this start up phase can lead to delays, cost and at worst, loss of trust with employees, customers, and potential risks of not achieving the desired outcomes.

Whilst tools like Business Readiness Assessments are incredibly helpful, they often come after the main work of the project is well established, making it difficult to course correct or identify potential pitfalls before they happen.

We want to share the areas we believe are essential to consider when getting off to a good start with our Change Diagnostic.

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