Main Idea:
Everything can change, but if you don’t know how to effectively lead change you greatly reduce your success rate. You need tools to help you with the change process.
The greatest tool you have at your disposal is a clear, flexible, behavior-focused, change process.
– Change is about behavior. It is deeper than that, but it must it never different from that.
John Kotter’s Change Process
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Increase Urgency
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Build the guiding team
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Get the vision right
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Communicate for buy-in
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Empower Action
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Create short-term wins
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Don’t let up
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Make change stick
Assignment: Build a pathway to the future you desire focused on behavior that is different and be willing to abandon it.
Influence is essential for change leadership, know how you gain influence.
– As a leader your role is to make the right decisions, you gain influence by doing the right things the right way.
Influence is essential for change leadership, know how you gain influence.
– As a leader your role is to make the right decisions, you gain influence by doing the right things the right way.
Assignment: Begin focusing now on how you can increase the cards in your hand so you can play what will win.
Key Metrics will aid your change, but they are not the change.
Utilize data that points to “why it is changing” and “why it is changing now”.
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Focus on Understandable Factors
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Use measures that are fair and appropriate
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Use data that is connected to the future you want to create.
Assignment: Determine the data points that could be useful in clarifying the change and begin researching that.
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