building effective change leadership

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Leaders of The Revolutionbuilding effective change leadership in your organisation

8 April 2011

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What is effective change leadership?

“Effective change leadership happens when leaders of change provide direction, guidance and support to the people who are implementing the change....

as well as those having to adapt to change.”1

1 Definition taken from “Successful change: how to implement change through people” by David Miller. Scheduled for publication in May 2011.

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Ineffective leadership can be the biggest obstacle to successfully implementing change

Shared Change Purpose

Effective Change Leadership

Powerful Engagement Processes

Committed Local Sponsors

Strong Personal Connection

Sustained Personal Performance

9%

28%

22%

16%

16%

10%

Currently, the biggest risk to change being successful is the lack of:

Effective Change Leadership is consistently the highest ranked risk in delivering successful change

management.

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What does good change leadership look like?

Harking back to Kurt Lewins model of unfreeze, transition, refreeze, we think there are three phases in this:

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How do you build it?

Map out a change network

Engage sponsors at every level

Develop informal influencers

Arm change agents with the right skills for the job

Embrace change

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To find out more, including:

Where are tomorrow’s change leaders?

What does good change leadership really look like?

The process – how to build change leadership capability

Tools and techniques for change leaders

Benefits and measures of success

Visit our site to download “Leaders of the Revolution”

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This paper is one of a series on a number of change related topics all of which are available from the Knowledge Centre on the Changefirst website.

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