An enterprise change initiative is experiencing change fatigue because too many projects are launched simultaneously without alignment. What OCM strategy should be applied to restore stakeholder capacity?
Trap 1: Ignore employee complaints about workload and mandate mandatory…
Forcing overtime burns out staff and leads to high turnover and project failure.
Trap 2: Accelerate all remaining projects to finish them as quickly as…
Accelerating everything worsens change saturation and increases error rates.
Trap 3: Assign all change management responsibilities to end users to…
Shifting workload without support leads to resistance and task abandonment.
- A
Ignore employee complaints about workload and mandate mandatory overtime until projects conclude.
Why wrong: Forcing overtime burns out staff and leads to high turnover and project failure.
- B
Accelerate all remaining projects to finish them as quickly as possible, regardless of resource limits.
Why wrong: Accelerating everything worsens change saturation and increases error rates.
- C
Pause, review, and sequence the change portfolio to align with the organization's absorptive capacity.
Sequencing and prioritizing changes ensures the organization can absorb and sustain each transformation.
- D
Assign all change management responsibilities to end users to reduce the project team's workload.
Why wrong: Shifting workload without support leads to resistance and task abandonment.