How StrongSuits can underpin a change initiative

In traditional change management, the change is decided on from up high and then handed over to others to execute. Then, when people “resist” the change, the job of change managers is to convince people to adopt the change and to drive it forward.

There has to be a better way.

How StrongSuits can help

StrongSuits can help us to understand how each person and the team as a whole responds to and contributes to the change.

• How each person brings their own individual strengths to the change
• How the team and organisation can benefit from the diversity of complementary strengths that each person brings
• How each person responds to the inevitable stresses that change brings and how the team can accommodate each other’s stress responses
• How each person prefers to be communicated with and how we can adapt our communication styles accordingly
• What really motivates each person in relation to the change
• How team members deal with conflict surrounding the change
• How each person deals with personal accountability and holds others to account around the change

Change brings both challenges and opportunities. If we can understand the unique strengths that each individual and team brings then we can reap benefits from change initiatives that avoid common pitfalls and go beyond the expected results.