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The Change Readiness Gauge™ is a great tool that allows users to get a snapshot of the readiness of their group or organization to accept and implement change. Not only do you get data to understand where your organization is currently, you also get insight into what people believe is working well and where they see the need for change. No instrument on the market today gives you that combination of data in an easy to apply format. I have used this instrument to effectively implement change in the following situations:

• Blending of two teams: identified readiness for change and the key area of focus to drive change successfully
• New team leader: provided current organization snapshot and identified where he will need to focus to drive effective change in his organization
• Strategic Planning: prior to launching strategic goals, insights from the assessment were used to identify areas of focus, the challenge level of driving change based on readiness of the team, and in the creation of a change plan to drive the strategy
• Product launch: helped global sales team align by identifying and closing gaps related to a new product launch

I highly recommend this tool to any team or organization planning to implement change that is critical to business strategy. The Change Readiness Gauge™ provides organizations data to identify potential barriers to success of their change initiatives. This tool serves as a platform for creation of change implementation strategies that are focused and comprehensive to address areas of resistance along with needed systems and processes to ensure success.

I’ve been an Organizational Development and Change Consultant now for 15 years, working with executives across North America, helping them design and implement change in their companies. Throughout this time I have consistently had these senior leaders ask the following questions:

• What do we need to do to be successful in this change effort?
• What can be done to prepare the organization for this change?
• Is there any way to determine the organizational readiness for change?
• What skills are needed for the project team and those affected by the change?
• What tools can the project team use to increase their effectiveness as change agents?

At long last, I now have the Discovery Learning Change Readiness Gauge™ (CRG) as an effective organizational change assessment and diagnostic tool.

It takes only 15-20 minutes to complete the 40 item online survey and can easily be administered electronically to a large number of people across an organization. It can be used by internal or external Organizational Development Consultants, Project Leaders and Organizational Change Agents.

Survey results are displayed in an easy to read format highlighting the top 10 and bottom 10 items. In addition to a composite report for the organization, the report can be broken down into sub-groups so that feedback can be provided to Division, Department or Functional group leaders. This is particularly valuable when looking to understand the “readiness” of individual groups for systemic change such as a major ERP installation. An extra advantage of the CRG is that it can be customized to get verbatim input about perceived barriers that may impede the upcoming change.

The CRG can be used to monitor progress throughout the change planning and implementation process before, at a major milestone check-point and for post implementation feedback.

Typically data is reviewed with the executives to uncover group and organizational strengths and challenges as well as develop “themes” and brainstorm ideas for approaches to manage the change process. By far the biggest benefit is to use the survey feedback data to increase the dialogue about an upcoming organizational change!