ABOUT THE BOOK |
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"An indispensable aid to project management – particularly for those projects requiring the transformation of the business or its methods."
Y. Paternoster, IT Manager
"An effective method of change management with regard to interpersonal relationship skills, the wheel of change enables a supple and determined approach to the perils that may hinder the success of essential evolution. More important today than ever before, read it unreservedly."
P. Morin, Entrepreneur
"An IT project is 40% technical and 60% change. How to achieve a 10/10 instead of a 4 in your next project in just a few pages…"
O. Dal Zuffo, Managing Director
"For the person driving change, the first problem is the resistance he will encounter. This book, clear and simple to read, sets out a methodology for change which can be applied to any kind of project. A companion on the road to success!"
J.L. Taxil, Architect
"Management tends to seek to effect change through IT projects; thus the project leader is given the task of change management. A knowledge of the contents of this book enables the project leader to reconcile management and users and to ask the right questions of managers in order to bring about the required transformation. A must-read to help with your mission."
K. Ben Salah, Project Manager
Y. Paternoster, IT Manager
"An effective method of change management with regard to interpersonal relationship skills, the wheel of change enables a supple and determined approach to the perils that may hinder the success of essential evolution. More important today than ever before, read it unreservedly."
P. Morin, Entrepreneur
"An IT project is 40% technical and 60% change. How to achieve a 10/10 instead of a 4 in your next project in just a few pages…"
O. Dal Zuffo, Managing Director
"For the person driving change, the first problem is the resistance he will encounter. This book, clear and simple to read, sets out a methodology for change which can be applied to any kind of project. A companion on the road to success!"
J.L. Taxil, Architect
"Management tends to seek to effect change through IT projects; thus the project leader is given the task of change management. A knowledge of the contents of this book enables the project leader to reconcile management and users and to ask the right questions of managers in order to bring about the required transformation. A must-read to help with your mission."
K. Ben Salah, Project Manager
ABOUT THE METHODOLOGY
“A comparison of the different methods of
change management while I looking for a pragmatic and simple method enabled me
to identify the Wheel of Change as the closest to my personal experience. I
signed up for a training course having coming across Mr Wellhof in a video on
Youtube, to test my initial feeling. From the very outset of the training
course, I was convinced that the model could hold up under scrutinity . The Wheel of Change was explained
by two speakers with solid and complementary experience of change management in
business. Many detailed examples give form to the Wheel. In addition, I spent a
very pleasant day in their company and the group of participants was excellent.
More, please! When is the next course?”
V.W. - Change Management Coach & Consultant
“An excellent opportunity to see or review the simple elements to put in place for the conduct of the project and the management of change. I was able to use this to relay the principal steps to my marketing teams for whom change management is a daily challenge, in a series of 8 one-hour sessions.”
D.L, Deputy Chief Marketing Officer
“I found your seminar very interesting, having had a disappointing previous experience, this course enabled me to see things from a new angle”.
A.P Production Manager
“I wanted to congratulate you on the quality of your seminar ‘Change Management » which I recently attended. In my working life I often see how difficult it is to institute change in businesses”.
“Through your training I was able to see that you have put your finger on the fundamental reasons which can often slow down or stop the process of change. I also appreciated the fact that you suggested a method, or rather a real process, to ensure that change continues to full term”.
“I sincerely thank you for having enlightened me by giving me powerful tools which enable me to more easily help my clients with any changes they might wish to initiate”.
P.S. General Manager
“Our company is the internal advertising department in a press group. The evolution of our professional universe led us to implement a CRM to allow us to better manage our clients whilst having a global view on our activities. Whilst we had chosen a supplier for the software, as well as a company to configure it for us, there remained a significant unknown entity that could cause the failure of the entire project.
Having the right system is all well and good…but actually using it is better… making all employees adopt it would be the ideal. But this was the greatest risk. Since our company’s staff is composed of a large number of older workers with seniority; strongly rooted habits and vastly different training (few had studied the same subjects), there was a potential intergenerational conflict with the newer employees (the famous generation Y with its demands, desires and requirements…).
Like all companies in our sector we suffer from the effects of the global crisis…but we also have to confront a structural crisis which means we have to modify our product supply. In this context, putting in place a new tool which, in order to succeed, must be used by the entire workforce was a huge challenge! Luckily, we realized this…and we had carried out considerable research on Change Management. We knew that the implementation of CRM would demand a huge reorganizational effort on our behalf, as well as an effort to persuade staff that we had made the right choices.
We asked Key Partners to help us in this crucial mission. Thanks to their know-how, explaining the different stages through which we would need to pass, showing us how to avoid the pitfalls and, ultimately, providing solid training in this CRM for all of our staff, we ended up with a result we would never have believed we could attain so easily.
All our salespeople, all our administrators use the tool…and even ask for new functions allowing us to work more effectively. (…) We were able to complete the project within the time we had allotted…
A great job!”
HV, Sales Manager
“This seminar offers a concrete method, an understanding of the situation as it is.”
FB, General Secretary
“Particularly pragmatic and universally applicable. Highly recommended.”
NB, Business developper
“I found a number of examples that reminded me of the reality of what I am experiencing and I will try to put the process described into practice. An excellent support for the implementation of change”.
CD, Audit & Finance Manager
“A real approach to the problem of change management and suitable answers to that problem”.
PR, Consultant
“The linear vision of actions to be carried out in order to manage change brings great clarity; this gives a plan of action and sheds light on how to put the steps into place to move from project mode to operational mode”.
CH Organization Consultant
“You have formalized something which many consultants, such as myself, have done partially without really having an overview. The absence of such an overview and formalization have led to frustration, failure and omissions. So the Wheel of Change is a practical and valuable tool!”
SA, Consultant
V.W. - Change Management Coach & Consultant
“An excellent opportunity to see or review the simple elements to put in place for the conduct of the project and the management of change. I was able to use this to relay the principal steps to my marketing teams for whom change management is a daily challenge, in a series of 8 one-hour sessions.”
D.L, Deputy Chief Marketing Officer
“I found your seminar very interesting, having had a disappointing previous experience, this course enabled me to see things from a new angle”.
A.P Production Manager
“I wanted to congratulate you on the quality of your seminar ‘Change Management » which I recently attended. In my working life I often see how difficult it is to institute change in businesses”.
“Through your training I was able to see that you have put your finger on the fundamental reasons which can often slow down or stop the process of change. I also appreciated the fact that you suggested a method, or rather a real process, to ensure that change continues to full term”.
“I sincerely thank you for having enlightened me by giving me powerful tools which enable me to more easily help my clients with any changes they might wish to initiate”.
P.S. General Manager
“Our company is the internal advertising department in a press group. The evolution of our professional universe led us to implement a CRM to allow us to better manage our clients whilst having a global view on our activities. Whilst we had chosen a supplier for the software, as well as a company to configure it for us, there remained a significant unknown entity that could cause the failure of the entire project.
Having the right system is all well and good…but actually using it is better… making all employees adopt it would be the ideal. But this was the greatest risk. Since our company’s staff is composed of a large number of older workers with seniority; strongly rooted habits and vastly different training (few had studied the same subjects), there was a potential intergenerational conflict with the newer employees (the famous generation Y with its demands, desires and requirements…).
Like all companies in our sector we suffer from the effects of the global crisis…but we also have to confront a structural crisis which means we have to modify our product supply. In this context, putting in place a new tool which, in order to succeed, must be used by the entire workforce was a huge challenge! Luckily, we realized this…and we had carried out considerable research on Change Management. We knew that the implementation of CRM would demand a huge reorganizational effort on our behalf, as well as an effort to persuade staff that we had made the right choices.
We asked Key Partners to help us in this crucial mission. Thanks to their know-how, explaining the different stages through which we would need to pass, showing us how to avoid the pitfalls and, ultimately, providing solid training in this CRM for all of our staff, we ended up with a result we would never have believed we could attain so easily.
All our salespeople, all our administrators use the tool…and even ask for new functions allowing us to work more effectively. (…) We were able to complete the project within the time we had allotted…
A great job!”
HV, Sales Manager
“This seminar offers a concrete method, an understanding of the situation as it is.”
FB, General Secretary
“Particularly pragmatic and universally applicable. Highly recommended.”
NB, Business developper
“I found a number of examples that reminded me of the reality of what I am experiencing and I will try to put the process described into practice. An excellent support for the implementation of change”.
CD, Audit & Finance Manager
“A real approach to the problem of change management and suitable answers to that problem”.
PR, Consultant
“The linear vision of actions to be carried out in order to manage change brings great clarity; this gives a plan of action and sheds light on how to put the steps into place to move from project mode to operational mode”.
CH Organization Consultant
“You have formalized something which many consultants, such as myself, have done partially without really having an overview. The absence of such an overview and formalization have led to frustration, failure and omissions. So the Wheel of Change is a practical and valuable tool!”
SA, Consultant