Have you been tasked with bringing change management to your organization? What was your experience going up against company culture, executive engagement/disengagement, institutional inertia, etc?

I was sent to ProSci training for change management and then put on a number of project teams to implement change. While project managers agreed that "managing the people side of change" was important, it certainly wasn't a compelling concept for them. After all, the company has done "just fine" without it for over 60 years.

Unless the C-Suite/executives in an organization are fully onboard and espousing the virtues of change management, any attempt to implement it is almost impossible. However, there are small ways we've found to improve change management using some of the basic interventions from the Gilbert/Chevalier Behavior Engineering Model. We have to remember that even Rome wasn't built in a day.