STRATEGIC CHANGE ADVISORY

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Advanced, strategic change management advice is inaccessible without hiring an expensive, full-time change management director or 'head of change'. Organisations engage Huw to act as their on-demand change director to advise them in their early stages and through execution (for only the time and budget that suits). This ensures appropriate expert oversight, resourcing, understanding of behavioural and cultural impacts, development of achievable change strategies and sharing of change management expertise to ensure success. This safeguards your change investment and mitigates the risk of failure.

Implementing change with high frequency, volume and scale requires more than an effective change manager and project. Your whole organisation, from executives to middle-management to the frontline must be equipped with the processes, skills and cultural beliefs that enable rather than resist change. Huw leads strategic reviews to diagnose change capability enablers and barriers, before designing and helping you implement a radical uplift in your enterprise change agility. 

Transformative organisational change offers significant benefits. It also risks catastrophe. Huw provides advisory support to executives as they lead and govern major changes, ensuring your people accept the change, know their roles and adapt how they operate. Your executives will learn from Huw's expertise and apply it with his support. Without expert guidance, you're gambling millions of dollars in capital invested and potential benefits for years to come. 

Financial business cases for mergers and acquisitions promise big benefits but never account for the hidden M&A killer: humans! With decades of cultural norms, habits and talent practices engrained in each business, is it any wonder most M&A programs take years to realise any benefits? The good news is, by applying Huw's proven techniques to engage each employee culture and bring everyone on the journey, you can avoid costly operational setbacks and capture those benefits faster.

As an executive, you see the big picture. You know the industry forces shaping the organisation, its ultimate purpose and why external stakeholders need it to exist. You know why change is necessary. However, those on the frontlines are busy delivering and can't see what you know. When you speak or email, hundreds or thousands may receive and mentally process your message, in an instant. Executives' reach, facilitates influence at scale, which is critical to getting the masses to shift direction quickly. Huw can help you get the message right every time.

Technology is merely a tool used by your people. Your people are your organisation. So when implementing new software, everything from design, development, implementation and embedding must centre around the user. Success should be defined by the degree to which your people understand, value and choose to use your systems and the full extent of their capabilities to create business value. Huw can help you ensure you get your success metrics centred around your people and that all project actions aim to achieve them.

Strategy and execution have always had a rocky marriage. True success happens when the two become one, intertwined in an ongoing, living relationship, driven by openness to ideas, clear goals and ample capacity to execute. Strategy should articulate a clear path for change that gives you an edge. Remove confusion and complication. Make Strategy Straightforward.

Strategy execution is a team game, lead by your leadership team. The cohesion of your leadership team vastly influences employee productivity, effectiveness and openness to change. Executive teams cause ripples that turn into waves  (for better or worse). Taking time to align strategically, connect personally and develop 'collective leadership' is key to organisation effectiveness. Bring insight and expert facilitation to your next offsite.