I have been in a few positions where I have experienced change and
one were I was responsible for managing change. One of the
positions that I experienced change is my current position where
before the change I was only in charge of the NE region of the US.
Through the actions of a coworker(now former) I was thrusted into
his position as well and have to deal with the change of his absence. I
have experienced the change of now running the whole country for
safety instead of just my region. Crazy how change works huh? The
time I managed changed was a few jobs ago, where I was person
involved in changing the job process for chemical refining and
improving the job. I changed the whole job to increase efficiency 5
fold and then had to express to leadership in the company that this
will work better instead of the same old way of before. It was hard to
overcome the leadership and then to push the change onto the
employees that would do the process everyday. Based on the skills I
have gained from this course, I would of not approached the change
any differently. I went in and got buy in from leadership and
communicated it properly. It probably was not as efficient as it could
of been but that would be the improvement. The change
management skills that I have found most relevant is the proper way
to communicate to C-Suite level directors. I will be applying them
moving forward as I will be talking more and more to them.
