Middle managers often come in for the brunt of angst from change specialists. Change consultants are prone to perceive and treat middle bosses as a stumbling block in the business change management process. This angle can be understandable, even if it is useless. Change consultants don’t want to lose momentum and middle chiefs are often one of the last steps before initiating a change initiative.
Unfortunately, middle managers are also certain to raise strenuous and many challenges to the drive. This slows down business change management because those beef must be addressed. Change specialists can take a dim view of this slowdown and the middle managers who cause it. This angle belittles the genuine worth that middle executives make a contribution to the change initiative process.
Change experts occasionally forget that middle bosses are probably closer to the systems that are going to endure change than any one else in the management structure. They will have the most pragmatic view about the impact the change will have on production. They will also have the most pragmatic view of how long the change will take. Part of the business change management job that change consultants do is guessing the duration of the change process. It’s the middle chiefs who will inform the specialist whether or not their estimations are practical, remotely possible, or not even close to possible.
If the change advisor wants to do their job with the greatest degree of efficacy, they will note every objection and appraisal the middle managers offer. The business change management process should not move forward until two things have happened. First, the change team has gone over everything on the list and found sufficient solutions or reason. 2nd , those solutions and reasons have been returned to and authorized by the middle chiefs. Middle managers are the people on the ground and a change advisor ignores them at their own peril.
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