Architects of Change: Practical Tools to Build, Lead and Sustain Organizational Initiatives

As a leader, you don’t want to waste precious organizational resources when introducing a change, but you still may wonder “What exactly is my role in leading a change, and where can I best apply my skills and influence to ensure our desired outcome?” This book answers those questions with clear and specific actions you need to take to ensure successful change.Why read this book? As a leader, you know change is constant, and you want to do it right. To ensure your organization has a leadership team skilled in this area, here is a fast read, how-to manual to help you achieve the changes you want in your organization. 1.Read this book to discover gaps in your knowledge as you begin a change.2.Read this book to overcome the weaknesses your organization will face during change.3.Read this book with your executive team to build their skills.4.Read this book to help you anticipate and address employee resistance to change.5.Read this book to help your company diagnose and mitigate the organizational stress caused by change. 6.Read this book to raise questions with your change management team.“Using examples that we all can relate to, Jim has once again simplified a complex topic into a usable playbook for getting things done. With tips and hints for architecting change that sticks, this latest work from Jim is now a welcome part of my leadership toolkit.”James Mylett, Senior Vice-President, Comfort Systems USA

Executive Summary
Executives and leaders develop organizational strategy that leads to major change. While leaders are often competent in sales, finance and marketing, change management skills learned in MBA courses are often forgotten when executives launch new organizational initiatives. And yet, change management skills are critical for effective implementation of new programs.

There is a need for executives to master and use specific change skills to ensure an ROI in both financial and human terms. That's what this book is all about. This is the heart of change sponsorship - the effort of leadership must take to make the change part of organizational DNA. This is not a book about change tools or techniques - it is a call to leaders to use their leadership to ensure their organization achieves what it set out to do. The Architect is someone who designs, builds, and leads a structure to completion. The same concepts are true in managing change. There is no time where Architects take their eye off the project, even though many others are doing the work.