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How to measure and improve your engagement with staff in major change

A guide to engaging staff well in change and flexible tools to measure engagement.

This resource is designed to support organisations that are planning to engage staff in major changes. It presents two new tools designed to be used together. These both measure staff experience of engagement during major change, and support those who are responsible for planning and leading change.

About this resource

This toolkit provides you with:

  • 10 principles for how to engage staff well in major change
  • guidance on the key considerations underpinning a good measurement approach
  • a survey of staff tool
  • a planning and reflection tool
  • equity, diversity and inclusion considerations when measuring engagement in change
  • guidance on moving from data to analysis and action

How to use this resource

As well as providing practical guidance and signposting to existing resources, this resource presents two new tools. Designed to be used together, these both directly measure staff experience of engagement during major change, and also support those who are responsible for planning and leading change.

Audience

This resource is designed to help those leading change to better understand, measure and improve the engagement of staff within their change processes.
Those who may find it useful include:

  • change leaders
  • decision makers
  • named leads
  • programme sponsors
  • change team members
  • communication leads
  • learning leads

Development

This toolkit is the result of a research project led by Q’s insight team. We worked with Thiscovery[ref]Thiscovery is an online platform that allows the health and care system to improve and innovate through collaboration. It enables knowledge-led organisations to understand problems, gather evidence, build shared visions, and co-design and evaluate solutions.[/ref] to connect with more than 300 participants from across the health and care sectors.

Downloads

Guide Measuring and improving your engagement with staff in major change: a how-to guide
PDF
12.7 MB 
54 pages 
40 minute read
Evaluation tool Survey of staff tool
Excel
82.3 KB
Evaluation tool Planning and reflection tool
Excel
83.3 KB
Project report Co-developing an approach to understanding, measuring and improving the engagement of staff in major change
PDF
5.1 MB 
64 pages 
61 minute read

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