Limiting the High Risk of Organisational Change
Giving Your People the Winning Edge
April 20th 2008
An Australian based Change and
Stress Management consulting group has implemented a powerful strategy
to limit risks associated with such change.
Large scale change in organisations
always creates resistance and elevated stress levels. This is simply
because organisations are made of people and people typically have self
limiting self images. That is, no matter what presents on the surface,
most people don’t believe they are good enough to carry through with
something they don’t understand fully.
Gary Johnston, CEO of GMF
International explains, "In group training meetings I always ask the
question, “Who, in this room, believes that most other people in the
room are better that you are?” The amazing thing is that MOST people
put up their hands. There is no demographic that does this more than
others. The same applies across management staff, employees, business
owners and stay at home mum’s and dad’s".
So how does this parle’ into the
business world? Simply put, any change at any level of business ALWAYS
translates into elevated anxiety and self image conflicts. Add to this
mix the fact that 61% of your people do not really care about the
organisation and 18% are actively working against you*, the degree of
difficulty of implementing significant change rises quickly. That’s 79%
of your staff not actively “engaged” in the company.
If not catered for at the very basic
level of change program design, you will face enormous resistance to the
change and a 70% chance of expensive or catastrophic failure.
An Australian company, GMF
International, has long experience in working with people at a clinical
stress management and self image enhancement level. Seeing some of the
disasters in change management programs over recent years, GMF has
developed powerful methods to mitigate this risk. By working on a
confidential level directly with groups and individuals, and being seen
as independent of the company’s CEO and Board, GMF has created a
customized structured program that deals with the management team, the
HR team and staff in an inclusive teaching and subtle therapeutic model
that significantly reduces stress and resistance to your change program.
A complete Organisational Health Audit is completed to enhance both
physical and mental wellbeing, and staff/management interaction.
The model has been derived from very
powerful strategies originally used in treating high anxiety disorders
including Panic Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Being able
to integrate self image conflict, group conflict and resistance
profiles, the GMF Change Model has been proven to be highly successful.
A part of that success can be attributed to the absolute confidentiality
applied to all levels of the intervention / training, allowing
facilitators a greater degree of trust and acceptance.
The GMF Change Model is integrated
tightly into the Change Management model and worked closely with HR and
senior management staff to ensure greatest efficiency and productivity
gains.
*Gallop Research 2006
For More Information Contact:
GMF International Pty Ltd
P.O. Box 16, Bulleen VIC 3105 Australia
Tel:
+61 3 8682 8772
FAX:
+61 3 9852 0070
Internet:
manager@gmfint.com
