E16 - The Modern Change Practitioner - Podcast with Melanie Franklin

Welcome and thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

 My guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable effective and sustainable change in the workplace.

My guest today is Melanie Franklin; An international change consultant and a co-chair of the UK Change Management Institute.  

 A respected international author of textbooks and articles on change and founder of the Continuous Change Community, Melanie is a wealth of change practice knowledge and has led transformational change practice for over twenty years. 

 I am grateful to have Melanie sharing her thoughts and knowledge with me today.   

Topics discussed

• Importance of a change practice training
• Purist vs Latitudinarian application
• Complimentary skills for an effective change practitioner
• Attitudes that underpin change plans
• External vs Internal change practitioners 
• Importance of continuous learning
• The change practitioner’s role in the next 5 years

And much more

About Melanie (In her own words)

I take a very practical approach to change, programme and project management with priority on the realisation of planned benefits, working closely with my clients to ensure that the desire to implement best practice does not result in bureaucracy for its own sake.
 
 Each solution that I propose is based on sound practical advice and experience with guidance on how it is likely to be received by staff, how resistance to change can be overcome and how stakeholders can be engaged from the outset.
 
 It is stated I have a reputation for delivering complex information with humour and passion. Drawing on my wealth of practical experience to illustrate concepts, I engage my audience in lively debates on advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
 
 Change Management - building capability for managing change through knowledge transfer and the creation of change management frameworks (methodology; toolkit; training package for new change teams) that offer simple and intuitive models for managing change
 
 Agile Project Management - creating best practice methodologies, delivering training courses and facilitating workshops to build capability in project, programme and portfolio management.

 Contact

To access more resources about change management, connect with Melanie on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniefranklin1/

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Ali Juma
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