What is the Energized Approach and how can it help your organization?
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Companies are continuously introducing change in the workplace. Along with this change comes the reactions of those who will be impacted. These reactions can range from acceptance and participation to resistance and anarchy. The question that needs to be asked is:
"Can an organization take measures to influence these reactions to increase the odds that the response will be positive?"
The answer is "yes", and the method is The Energized Approach.
If a program or change is going to be introduced and an organization investing a great deal of time and energy is vested in its success, doesn’t it make sense to create an environment that is conducive to this success?
The Energized Approach focuses on the 10 essential energy sources that drive successful change. They include: Commitment, Communication, Consistency, Creativity, Flexibility, Inclusion, Recognition, Accountability, Respect and Fun.
When these energy sources are tended to, programs not only succeed, they flourish. In the absence of these energy sources, programs are often doomed to failure.
The Energized Approach is broken down into the following 3 easy-to-implement segments:
1. Conduct an Energy Audit: This activity helps you determine the level of energy for each of the 10 essential energy sources and identify the areas that need attention before a program or change is introduced (or identify why an existing program is struggling).
2. Conduct an Energizing Strategies Session: The purpose of these sessions is to problem-solve strategies that will increase the energy available for program success.
3. Implement your Action Plan.
The Energized Approach helps organizations in the following ways:
- Find out where energy is lacking in your organization and address these issues before implementation to energize the environment and prepare your workforce for what is coming.
- Find out what areas of your organization and truly energized and learn from these areas so these same strategies can be used for other programs and initiatives.
- Take programs or initiatives that are not reaching their potential and re-energize them before they end up in the “program graveyard”.
- When an organization effectively utilizes The Energized Approach it is almost impossible to have an unsuccessful program or initiative. This is because the work is done prior to implementation to find out what obstacles to success may present themselves and if/when problems do come up they are addressed promptly.