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Change Agility – Co-creating change with a user-centric, feedback-driven approach

In today’s business environment, change is no longer an occasional disruption—it’s a constant force shaping how organizations operate. Whether driven by technological advancements, shifting market conditions, or evolving customer expectations, the ability to navigate and adapt to change is critical for long-term success.

However, the traditional approach to organizational change management (OCM), which often treats change as a singular event to be managed, with a big plan and a push of change support interventions, no longer suffices. Embedding principles of agility —the ability to continuously and fluidly adapt — into how you approach OCM helps ensure you provide the right support at the right time by engaging users to co-create the change.

Integrating OCM and agile methods can improve the adoption of iteratively designed solutions. By embracing a more dynamic, agile approach to OCM, businesses can work with stakeholders to co-create change interventions to deliver solutions faster, drive more end-user satisfaction, and ensure that they are aligned with the future needs of their stakeholders, customers, and markets.

Successful transformations are all about focusing on the people. Many transformational programs have common gaps in their plans and do not understand the importance and criticality of the people to the success of the project. There is a need for an adaptable yet reliable way to do change management. At Stone, we take an agile approach to change management that focuses more on action-oriented outcomes and driving engagement with stakeholders throughout the change journey to accelerate adoption and deliver value.

Our approach to change management, called Change Agility, leans on agile values and is guided by the following core principles:

  • Be user-centric and targeted.Treat your impacted stakeholders as valued customers by actively involving them, listening to their needs, and delivering change solutions that meet their needs. Often, change plans are built based on past experiences or best practices, but a more effective approach is to focus on understanding the voice of those affected by the change and delivering change support to meet their needs. By listening to and involving impacted stakeholders, you can create tailored change plans that resonate with each stakeholder group, ensuring the change support provided is relevant and impactful.
  • Drive engagement and collaboration. Engage users early and often to drive alignment and buy-in. Identify change advocates from various levels of the organization to represent impacted business areas and form a change agent network that helps you drive the change. Involving change agents builds trust, as they help advocate for the change in a way that resonates with their peers and fosters collaboration, communication, and feedback. Your change agent network will help you co-create the change by gathering insights, empowering teams to help shape the change, and supporting you as you test and iterate change solutions.
  • Be feedback-driven and responsive. Focus on feedback, rather than change resistance. Use feedback loops to gather input and generate pull, and then act on the feedback more proactively. Many times, change plans are only focused on the push of change activities with periodic checks for change readiness and resistance. This can often lead to reactive support. Embedding feedback cycles throughout your change plan provides an opportunity for ongoing feedback from those impacted by the change. This helps to empower and engage your users and provides insights on adoption and change support needs.
  • Adapt quickly and remain flexible. Be less plan-driven, and more action-oriented, and evolve through iteration. You don’t need a comprehensive, detailed change plan to begin. Start small, leveraging what you know to create a minimally viable change strategy that provides just enough structure to move forward. Keep your change plan lightweight and dynamic, focusing on execution and continuous engagement with stakeholders. Prioritize gathering feedback as you implement change solutions and be flexible to adapt and iterate your change plan and solutions based on feedback received.  Flexibility and adaptability are key to ensuring that your change plan remains aligned with the needs of your impacted stakeholders.

These core principles shape our mindset and the way we approach OCM. Change Agility and its principles can be embedded into the execution of any change model or framework, offering a modern, adaptive approach that facilitates the co-creation of change with your stakeholders. By focusing on a people-centric, feedback-driven model, two paradigms shift —  your users become a part of advocating for the change versus having it pushed on them, and your change team is acting on a plan that supports the needs of your impacted users.

The principles of Change Agility—1) being user-centric, 2) driving engagement, 3) being feedback-driven, and 4) maintaining flexibility—are essential for fostering stronger buy-in, accelerating adoption, and delivering lasting value. In a world where change is constant, the ability to embrace agility when managing change is no longer optional but essential to achieving sustainable business success. By embedding these principles into the way you approach change management, organizations can achieve smoother transitions, more accountability in co-creation, and greater overall success in their change initiatives.

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