Sustain

The sustain stage focuses on maintaining momentum and institutionalizing the change. This includes developing and embedding policies, systems, structures, measurement mechanisms, recognition/reward systems and other supports that you will need to reinforce the change initiative. It also includes identifying and leveraging facilitators to sustaining the change, identifying and resolving barriers to change, and removing old or temporary structures that are no longer necessary.

Methods and Tools for SUSTAIN stage

The Are We Making Progress as Leaders? questionnaire quickly assesses leaders’ perceptions on the progress of a specific strategy that has been deployed. It allows for comparison/alignment of perceived progress in the leadership of an organization and employee perceived progress.

The Are We Making Progress? questionnaire quickly assesses employees’ perceptions on the progress of a specific strategy that has been deployed. It allows for comparison/alignment of perceived progress in the leadership of an organization and employee perceived progress.

The Kirkpatrick Framework evaluates training programs by exploring four levels of learning opportunity: experience, learning, behaviour and results.

The Sustainability Model identifies strengths and weaknesses in change implementation plans and helps predict the likelihood of sustainability for improvement initiatives.

The Sustainability Monitoring and Evaluation Framework is designed to measure, evaluate and monitor progress in business sustainability. It proposes a weighting system to compare strategic sustainability objectives by priority level on a 10-point performance metric scale and recommends a maximum of five strategic sustainability objectives per year that directly link to business strategies.

The Sustaining the Work or Initiative resource outlines the process of identifying, planning and implementing a sustainable organizational change initiative by providing questions to ask and consider throughout the different stages of change.