Communicating with Employees about Significant Company Changes

This report provides tips for communicating with employees about significant company changes. It emphasizes the importance of clear and honest communication, explaining the effects of the changes, detailing the change process, and giving employees a chance to raise concerns. Effective communication is crucial for keeping the workforce engaged during times of organizational change.

COMMUNICATING WITH
EMPLOYEES ABOUT
SIGNIFICANT COMPANY
CHANGES

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Main Body (Communicating with employees about significant company
changes)
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Communication is an art of giving and sharing as well as receiving the
information in verbal, written, listening or through reading ways.
 Good communicators are the ones who listen carefully, write or speak
clearly and respect other opinions as well.
 This report will highlight the aspects of communicating with employees
about significant company changes. Apart from this the study will also
discuss about the concepts of personal feedback from the lecturer in
detailed manner.

COMMUNICATING WITH
EMPLOYEES ABOUT SIGNIFICANT
COMPANY CHANGES
 Communication is most important part in each and every person’s life and
especially it plays a vital role in the business organizations in which the
communication among the employees as well as the management should
be clear enough to handle the situations in timely manner. Managers and
leaders often struggle to keep their workforce engaged during times of
organizational change. On the basis of employee engagement research
generally there are certain ways through which communication has been
transformed in efficient manner from one employee to another and helps
them as well to adapt changes such as:
 Communicate the reasons in openly and honest manner: Employees are
the most important asset in any organization and thus deserve a high
amount of respect while working within the firm. The great manager is
appropriately responsible for not protecting them from adverse conditions
that is being going within the establishment. If they want to stay engaged,
the managers and leaders have to make sure that the employees are able to
understand the changes.

CONTD.
 Communicate the changes from the top down motion: Important
changes that are going to happen within the establishment require high
amount of leadership commitments, their complete involvement and
consistent modelling. The employees working within the firm are always
expect to hear about the current situations, complications and implications
from leaders at the top first.
 Explaining in advance about the effects that are going to be faced
after adoption of changes: Employees always interested to know that
what the change will mean to them personally and professionally in both
contexts. Will they have to change their role, will the performance has
been measured, will they have new boss or team, etc. Acknowledge that
things will be dissimilar and the efforts must be appreciated in each and
every context.

CONTD.
 Detail the general change process: Providing the employees about the
step by step plan about the things that are going to happen along with the
time when they are going to be done. The clearer they are about their
expectations, the more comfortable they will be with the process.
 Get specific about what they need to do: Once employees have the
complete and overall plan, they are always interested into know the role in
which they will fit and what are expected from them. If there are some
employees more significantly for the change to be more successful than
others, they can try to target and customize the communication to multiple
audiences.
 Give employees complete chance to digest the information and raise
concerns: This is the most crucial step in order to get all the employees
engaged. They also help to provide appropriate opportunities for two way
communication in which employees are highly open to ask questions and
get their answers. An anonymous survey can help but the face to face
communication has been greatly recommended whenever possible.

CONCLUSION
 From the above report, it has been concluded that communication skills
are greatly significant in each and every manner as this is the only way to
share the information that is highly significant for everybody in order to
understand the situations that are running or will be going to happen
because of the certain amount of changes that has been started due to
some specific reasons.

REFERENCES
 Petrou, P., Demerouti, E. and Schaufeli, W.B., 2018. Crafting the change:
The role of employee job crafting behaviors for successful organizational
change. Journal of Management, 44(5), pp.1766-1792.
 Sousa, M.J. and Rocha, Á., 2019. Leadership styles and skills developed
through game-based learning. Journal of Business Research, 94, pp.360-
366.