Change Management: The Essentials: The modern playbook for new and experienced practitioners

by Lena Ross

FOREWORD BY DR JEN FRAHM

A practical and insightful guide for emerging and seasoned change professionals and leaders of change.

“It’s one book you will keep going back to…again and again.”

What you will discover in this

How

Gain relevant experience in non-change roles Prepare a change plan and create change artefacts Identify success measures for your change initiative Stay ahead of the curve and future-proof your change management capabilitiesAlong with valuable information

The core capabilities that recruiters and employers look for Numerous practical tables that you can adapt and use straight away What the future of change management looks like The role of psychological safety in an agile environment Agile change delivery and activity How change management theory and models translate to real practice“This is the bible of change management.Forward thinking and long overdue!”

385 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2020

Reviews

[Tracy Stanley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lena Ross’ book, Change Management: The Essentials, is to change managers what primer is to paint: it provides an excellent knowledge base upon which you can build your change management career.

My other reflections follow

Good recapping of the theory and models underpinning the practice of change management.
Concise summary of the different types of change programs such as those driven by cultural or technical imperatives.
Demystifies some of the language used in the profession and clarifies the difference between programs and projects and risks and issues.
Great use of metaphors sprinkled throughout and I loved the section on change parables and how to use them.

Short, easy to read chapters with useful models and templates sprinkled throughout making it a valuable and inexpensive resource, for all change practitioners.

[Robert Bogue]

It’s hard to figure out what you need to know for change management. It’s such a big profession with so many overlapping definitions that it’s hard to sort out what might be the essentials. That’s what makes Change Management: The Essentials such a difficult thing to pull off. Lena Ross doesn’t score a perfect 10 for this work – but it’s a good way to get oriented quickly if you’d like.

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