Changing and Succeeding
Under Any Condition
The 8-Step Process of Successful Change
SET THE STAGE
1. Create a Sense of Urgency
Help others see the need for change and the importance of acting immediately.
2. Pull Together the Guiding Team.
Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the change—one with leadership skills, bias for action, credibility, communications ability, authority, analytical skills.
Help others see the need for change and the importance of acting immediately.
2. Pull Together the Guiding Team.
Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the change—one with leadership skills, bias for action, credibility, communications ability, authority, analytical skills.
DECIDE WHAT TO DO
3. Develop the Change Vision and Strategy
Clarify how the future will be different from the past, and how you can make that future a reality.
Clarify how the future will be different from the past, and how you can make that future a reality.
MAKE IT HAPPEN
4. Communicate for Understanding and Buy-in
Make sure as many others as possible understand and accept the vision and the strategy.
5. Empower Others to Act
Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so.
6. Produce Short-Term Wins
Create some visible, unambiguous successes as soon as possible.
7. Don’t Let Up
Press harder and faster after the first successes. Be relentless with instituting change after change until the vision becomes a reality.
Make sure as many others as possible understand and accept the vision and the strategy.
5. Empower Others to Act
Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so.
6. Produce Short-Term Wins
Create some visible, unambiguous successes as soon as possible.
7. Don’t Let Up
Press harder and faster after the first successes. Be relentless with instituting change after change until the vision becomes a reality.
MAKE IT STICK
8. Create a New Culture
Hold on to the new ways of behaving, and make sure they succeed, until they become a part of the very culture of the group.
Hold on to the new ways of behaving, and make sure they succeed, until they become a part of the very culture of the group.
Author: John Kotter
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