I'm a Change Manager and joined a company in September '16 to bring in a change programme to their organisation. We're using a piece of software which gathers data that can then be analysed to find out what the areas of the business are that need change, how and so on. So been doing that for this entire time working incredibly hard on it.
Wasn't that long in that one of the Directors started trying repeatedly to pull me off onto other pieces of work and droning on about 'oh we don't know if we're going to proceed' [with the change work I'm doing] and general waffling about it.
I soon realised that they have absolutely no buy-in at senior level for the software product I am implementing, that the framework for it within the company isn't supportive of it at the highest enough level so that I'm working on the ground literally on my own (in an 11,000 person company) with no comms from the big boys/directors/chief exec - and thus the work I'm doing is achieving the targets they set, but it's not implementing as well as I would like because I just don't have the support to achieve it.
If this were not bad enough they are now creating a software solution which is almost bloody IDENTICAL to the one that I'm already rolling out! But they're putting everything into it, all the support, all the cross-site framework and the message to the staff is v v clear that it HAS to be done, no resistance allowed (which is what my change project needed but has never had). It is SO disheartening hearing them going through all the pieces of work and processes and stages that I went through getting my one up and running, and now they're repeating doing that again for something that does the same thing!
How barmy is that? So they've actually rolled it out to some of the departments that I've not rolled mine out to yet - and in the departments I have already rolled mine out to, they've stopped using mine to use this other one instead! It makes a complete mockery of all the work I've done.
I just wish companies like this would have half a clue of what they are trying to achieve as an organisation so that they pick software and improvement programmes etc that actually meet their aims instead of going scattergun at what they choose, then by not understanding the product or solution that they chose, are then nonplussed and panicking when it doesn't deliver instantly what they thought it would (when it was never intended to be a quick fix). So they have a panic and bring something else in when in fact, the software solution I was doing should have been combined with their new one and rolled out together, not separately.
And sadly, there is impact on me. They were supposed to do this change project for a total of 3 years which would have been GREAT for my CV and I could have gotten some really good change manager jobs after that, now I'll be lucky if I get to finish the first year of the project, and I could be canned before the 12 month contract is up so now I've got to look at getting another job and I'm not going to be too tardy about it because it's only me bringing money in (single parent, XH not paying any maintenance and no savings left since having to spend £2k on a new boiler 2 days before Xmas). To get THIS job I was job hunting for two months whilst in the job I was in before then after that job ended I was totally out of work for 3 whole months - it's actually v v hard to get a job for myself.
Quite fed up and want to kill this one director who has been an absolute nightmare from soon after I first started. They've even ridiculous about this to the extent that if they do pull out of my change project they will actually have financial penalties levelled against them.
Talk about lack of decision making.
Rant over.
Just wish me luck with job hunting because it's SO hard to find something and I feel really demoralised and cheesed off. I wouldn't mind but I work SO so hard and put so much into my jobs.