By Carla Dunn, Change Manager, Portfolio Change Stewardship Office, Department of Home Affairs
Is your organisation experiencing an increasing rate of change? Are you challenged by how to engage and support people through change? Do you have a change framework and tool suite that guides you in managing that change effectively? If not, don’t worry - we've got your back.
Introducing the new APS Change Framework!
This Framework is for anyone managing or supporting change across the Australian Public Service (APS).
- The Framework is perfect for both change experts and change newbies offering stacks of guidance and prompting questions to support your change planning and delivery.
- It’s structured to help you adopt change management practices and principles and build your organisations change management capability.
- No matter what your organisations’ change management maturity, the Framework will help you support specific change initiatives by:
- Understanding the change - what’s changing and why
- Assessing the change - the impacts and stakeholders
- Managing the change - identifying, developing and delivering the approach and specific activities to support staff through the change
- Embedding the change - so the objectives are met for the organisation.
The Framework is super-flexible and adaptable to all types and sizes of change.
- It offers a best practice approach to structuring and supporting your change.
- And it’s flexible enough to be paired with a range of change models, meaning that you can really tailor your approach to the specific needs of your change.
- The Framework includes templates which align to each stage, and are designed to be accessible, logically structured and easy to use.
The Framework has been designed by the APS Change Management Centre of Excellence (the Portfolio Change Stewardship Office in the Department of Home Affairs) with input from various stakeholders across the APS. This is the first time a change management framework has been designed by the APS for the APS to enable the practice, as well as contribute to sustainable APS wide enterprise change management.
The APS Change Management Centre of Excellence provides advice, resources, support and a range of change management services across government. Please feel free to reach out to us!
If you would like additional information, or support in implementing the Framework in your organisation, we can provide guidance on:
- how the Framework could be used in your organisation
- building an appetite for the Framework in your organisation
- introducing the Framework to your organisation
- promoting the Framework and its use in your organisation.
If you would like help introducing change management to your organisation – we can offer short, online introductions to the practice of change management.
We’re very open to feedback on the Framework with regular updates planned. So please let us know what you think.
Feel free to reach out to the APS Change Management Centre of Excellence.
The new APS Change Framework including the overview and all the chapters and supporting artefacts can be found on the APS Change Framework page.