Introduction

TROPOS Success Systems employs a four-pronged approach to ensuring successful change through your organization - 

	Improve the individual.
	Follow effective organizational change concepts.
	Focus on the improvement and its benefits.
	Incorporate the elements of change into the improvement process.

Improve The Individual

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.  Using this principle, every time an individual improves, the organization must improve.  This is covered extensively in Individual Change. 

Organizational Change Principles

We apply these major principles of successful organizational change in our processes - 

	Top down - Although change can start anywhere in an organization, change that starts at the top has the widest, most thorough, and longest lasting impact.
	Critical mass - The greater the mass of the organization that changes, the more solid the change takes hold.  While a great percentage of the whole  isn't needed, a concentration in a particular area is.
	Positive results - Positive results of some create desire in others to emulate those results and the behavior that created them.
	Common goal - A common, shared, understood, and agreed to goal is the single greatest factor that drives teams to success.

Focus On The Improvement 

Organizational change can become quite complex. It's implementation can be quite expensive if -

	It is ignored.  Then the desired change might not become reality.
	It becomes an end in itself or the focal point of interest and attention.  The desired change and its related benefits are overshadowed by the change process.

It cannot be ignored, but it cannot become the focal point.  That's why TROPOS Success Systems embeds the organizational change process into its improvement processes so the focus is the improvement.

Elements of Change

What makes change stick at an organizational level?

We incorporated the important elements of successful organizational change directly into our approach. 

The Change 

We help you define the current state, target state, and delta and what it will take to cross it.

We work with your organization over time to identify individual issues and needs and to allow the participants to apply what they learn directly into the workplace as we proceed. Change starts and builds during the process.  

The People 

It's a top down implementation, so it starts with top management, where it's seen and imitated, not with an individual buried somewhere in the organization.  Everyone is a change targets.  And we include a critical mass of people so the change takes hold and grows from there.  The critical mass allows the positive change to be absorbed into the organization.

The Tools 

TROPOS Success Systems provides the Learning Environment - the workshops, reading and listening materials, and the workbooks.  The Reward and Reinforcement System are a natural extension of the goal setting environment.  Although a formal Communication System is not part of the process,  when other individuals see and hear the positive changes occurring, word spreads like wild fire that something good is happening.    

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