professionals. HR has a critical role to play professionals can demonstrate they are
in people change, but the effects of a new making a real difference, then perceptions
organisational design are so great that will sort themselves out. There is an
change project disciplines would go a long opportunity for people working in change to
way to fixing some of the problems be the conscience of their business. There
companies experience when they are few better careers to follow.
restructure.
CJ: What effect has the market for John Hugo is a change
change skills had on your career, in professional with more
the past and now? than 15 years experience
of major change
JH: Change has become an industry in its programmes with Tesco
own right in the last five years, which makes and Barclaycard. His
it easier for everybody in change to build career evolution continues
the career they want. One aspect that isn’t and gets more exciting by
changing is the polarisation between the the day.
company change professional and the
consultant. There is very little flow between
the two career paths, which is a missed
opportunity.
CJ: If you could do one thing to change
the perception of change, what would
it be?
JH: It is difficult to generalise about how
change is perceived, but if there is a
common factor, it is this: people must see
that change adds value and that it is not just
about demonstrating that a company has its
internal governance in place. If change
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