It’s All About Change Management

It’s All About Change Management
When James Carville struggled to get then candidate Bill Clinton’s first campaign off the ground, he was trying to determine what was wrong with the country. He did lots of fancy analysis and brainstorming sessions and then he stumbled on his famous phrase,” It’s the economy, stupid!”  Whenever I look at RPOs that aren’t going well and have done the root cause analysis and brainstormed a dozen reasons why,  at the end it comes to me, its change management, stupid!   Whether you have decided to RPO a part of your organization, a small project or wall to wall, change management is essential to success. I advocate a fairly simple model that encompasses a business case, leadership alignment, communication/mobilization and training.