leader, you can be a change-agent!
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The soft-skills needed for change-leadership are vital to move your organization forward. Learn a step-by-step process for getting buy-in for your next initiative.TRANSCRIPT
by Paul Casey
"Change can be likened to a planned journey into uncharted
waters in a leaky boat with a mutinous crew."
Michael Fullan
Discuss: Summarize yourpersonal experience with deep
change in an organization.
Discuss: What are the consequences if your organization doesn’t change?
"If we don't change the way we're going, we're likelyto end up where we are headed." –Chinese Proverb
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
“Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present are
certain to miss the future.”
– John F. Kennedy
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
In most situations, change is inevitable; so we can either watch it occur, resist it, or help guide and direct it—
you cannot avoid it.
5 Traits Leaders Must Possess To Be Successful Leading Change
1. Moral Purpose 2. Understanding change 3. Relationship-building 4. Knowledge creation and sharing 5. Coherence
(Leading in a Culture of Change, Michael Fullan)
Essential Elements of Change —and the Consequences of
Lacking Just One
Discuss: In the last change effort you were a part of, use this chart to
evaluate what was present and what was absent.
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
"The single factor common to successful change is that relationships improve. If relationships improve,
(organizations)… get better. If relationships remain the same
or get worse, ground is lost."
–Michael Fullan, The Change Leader
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
“(Followers)… are more likely to
accept change programs if the
(Leader)… is perceived as actively
supportive of the (Follower’s)…
role in implementing the change."Robert Howsam
1.
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
2. “guiding coalition”
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
"(Leaders)… who would effect
change had to be familiar with and
able to manipulate the power
structure within the community."
Ralph Kimbrough
3.
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
Turn those committed to change into
organizational leaders.
4.
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
Who Moved My Cheese?
5.
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
"Well over half of all change efforts fail at the first, most crucial step: gaining widespread cooperation.
People won't move out of their comfort zones to make the
necessary changes unless there is a sense of urgency."
–John Kotter, What Leaders Really Do
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
“To master change, your
paradigm must switch
from what you will lose to
what you will gain.”
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
Exercise: Draw a picture of where
you are now and where you want
your organization to be (in the
area you know must change)
in one year from now.
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
“People are like tea bags.
You don’t know what they
are inside until you put
them in hot water.”
–Ray Armstrong
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
“Leaders look at similarities;
followers look at differences.”
–John Maxwell
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
“Innovations…
were successfully
institutionalized when they…
were able to be undertaken
gradually.”
–Ronald Lippitt
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
"(Leaders)… must set an
atmosphere… that is conducive
to change and must provide
(the team)… with a range of
substantive supports.
–James McLeskey/Nancy Waldron
5.
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
Discuss: When do people actually make a change?
5.
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
“Planned Abandonment”
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
“Nothing hurts when you are winning.” –John Maxwell
6.
Discuss: What gets rewarded these days in your organization, and why? Any of those tied to a culture-change attempt by leadership?
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." – Samuel Johnson
7.
“At the gates of excellence stand 2 fearsome sentries: risk and learning. The keys to entrance are faith and courage.” – Robert Quinn
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT
“Resistance to change is
natural; change is needed for
survival.”
Discuss: Why don’t people
want to change?
–John Gardner
1. Leaders and other participants feel that the project is their own—not one devised by outsiders.
Resistance Will Be Less If:(by Goodwin Watson)
2. The innovation clearly has wholehearted support from the top leaders.
3. The participants see the change as reducing rather than increasing their present burdens.
4. The project accords with values already acknowledged by participants.
Resistance Will Be Less If:(by Goodwin Watson)
5. The program offers the kind of new experience which interests participants.
6. Participants feel their autonomy and security is not threatened.
4. The project accords with values already acknowledged by participants.
Resistance Will Be Less If:(by Goodwin Watson)
5. The program offers the kind of new experience which interests participants.
6. Participants feel their autonomy and security is not threatened.
Resistance Will Be Less If:(by Goodwin Watson)
7. Participants have joined in diagnostic efforts leading them to agree on what the basic problem is and to feel its importance. 8. The project is adopted by consensual group decision. 9. Proponents are able to empathize with opponents; to recognize valid objections; and to take steps to relieve unnecessary fears.
Resistance Will Be Less If:(by Goodwin Watson)
10. It is recognized that innovations are likely to be misunderstood and misinterpreted, and if provision is made for feedback of perceptions of the project and for further clarification of need.
11. Participants experience acceptance, support, trust, and confidence in their relations with one another.
Resistance Will Be Less If:(by Goodwin Watson)
12. The project is kept open to revision and reconsideration if experience indicates that changes will be desirable.
“Design and institute a system which will provide feedback on the extent to which the proposed change is accomplishing its objectives, and diagnose those aspects of the programor its implementation which need improvement.”
8.
– Richard Gorton
Soft-Skill Change Strategies
Three motivators that don’t work: Tell ‘em, Bribe ‘em, Force ‘em. The only one that really worksis integration.
9.
Leaders take responsibility for the storyline at their company.
You Can Be a CHANGE AGENT