The change agent of the future; curating knowledge and making connections
In this talk Helen will explore the skills and capabilities that change agents are likely to need in the future; for a world where the power of hierarchy is diminishing in the face of complexity and change is happening faster and becoming more disruptive. The key new competencies are the ability to connect people who are currently disconnected and to curate, rather than create, knowledge for change. She will describe the new breed of change leaders who are rewriting the rules and leading change from the future.
Helen Bevan is acknowledged globally for her expertise in large scale change and ability to translate it into practical action and deliver outcomes. She provides advice, guidance and training on transformational change to leaders of health and care systems across the world. In 2008, the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service, Helen was recognised as one of the 60 most influential people in the history of the NHS.
3. Kinthi Sturtevant, IBM
13th annual Change Management
Conference June 2015
We rarely see two, three or four
year change projects anymore.
Now it’s 30-60-90 day change
projects
9. @HelenBevan
Jeremy Heimens TED talk “What new power looks like”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-S03JfgHEA
old power new power
Currency
Held by a few
Pushed down
Commanded
Closed
Transaction
Current
Made by many
Pulled in
Shared
Open
Relationship
10. The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents
Julie Battilana &Tiziana Casciaro
1. As a change agent, my centrality in the informal
network is more important than my position in
the formal hierarchy
2. If you want to create small scale change, work
through a cohesive network
If you want to create big change, create
bridge networks between disconnected groups
11. People who are highly connected
have twice as much power to
influence change as people with
positional power
Leandro Herrero
http://t.co/Du6zCbrDBC
12. “I have some Key
Performance
Indicators
for you”
or
“I have a
dream”
Source: @RobertVarnam
13. @HelenBevan
is the new normal!
“Tomorrow’s management
systems will need to value
diversity, dissent and
divergence as highly as
conformance, consensus and
cohesion.”
Gary Hamel
Image by neilperkin.typepad.com
14. @HelenBevan
What is a rebel?
•The principal champion of a change initiative, cause
or action
•Rebels don’t wait for permission to lead, innovate,
strategise
•They are responsible; they do what is right
•They name things that others don’t
see yet
•They point to new horizons
•Without rebels, the storyline never
changes
Source : @PeterVan http://t.co/6CQtA4wUv1
15. @HelenBevan
We need to create more boatrockers!
• Rock the boat but manage to
stay in it
• Walk the fine line between
difference and fit, inside and
outside
• Able to challenge the status
quo when we see that there
could be a better way
• Conform AND rebel
• Capable of working with others
to create success NOT a
destructive troublemaker
Source: Debra Meyerson
16. @HelenBevan
Source : Lois Kelly www.rebelsatwork.com
There’s a big difference between a rebel
and a troublemaker
Rebel
17. @HelenBevan
Reflection
• What are your insights around “rebels” and
“troublemakers”?
• What moves people from being “rebel” to
“troublemaker”?
• How do we protect against this?
18. @HelenBevan
Source : Lois Kelly www.rebelsatwork.com
There’s a big difference between a rebel
and a troublemaker
Rebel
20. @HelenBevan
Is your change process a cathedral or a bazaar?
http://www.unterstein.net/su/docs/CathBaz.pdf
21. @HelenBevan
We have a lot of cathedrals
Source: Sewell (2015) : Stop training our project managers to be process junkies
22. @HelenBevan
What are the biggest opportunities for change
agents in our system?
• As bridge builders between disconnected
groups
• As curators and sharers of knowledge
23. @HelenBevan
Improvement teams will
move from “bench
scientists” (programme
managers) to knowledge
leaders and connectors
http://connect.forwardmetrics.c
om/business-management/the-
strength-within.html
24. @HelenBevan
Because there’s a problem….
Source of quote: Harold Jarche
Source of image: http://gotcll.com/about-2/
Getting
information off the
internet is like taking a
drink from a fire hydrant
Mitchell Kapor
26. @HelenBevan
What is the best way to spread new
knowledge?
Source of data: Nick Milton
http://www.nickmilton.com/2014/10
/why-knowledge-transfer-
through.html
Social connection/discussion is
14 times more effective
than
written word/best practice
databases/toolkits etc.
Source of image: www.happiness-one-quote-time.blogspot.com
32. @HelenBevan
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33. @HelenBevan
References and links
Baron A (2014) Preparing for a changing world: the power of relationships
Battilano J, Casciaro T (2013) The network secrets of the great change agents
Harvard Business Review, July-August
Bevan H, Plsek P, Winstanley (2011) Leading Large Scale Change - Part 1, A
Practical Guide
Bevan H (2011) Leading Large Scale Change - Part 2, The Postscript
Bevan H, Fairman S (2014) The new era of thinking and practice in change and
transformation, NHS Improving Quality
Change Agents Worldwide (2013) Moving forward with social collaboration
SlideShare
Diaz-Uda A, Medina C, Schill E (2013) Diversity’s new frontier
Fuda P (2012) 15 qualities of a transformational change agent
Grant, M (2014) Humanize: How people centric organisations succeed in a social
world http://prezi.com/usju20i0nzhd/humanize-how-people-centric-
organizations-succeed-in-a-social-world/
Hamel G (2014)Why bureaucracy must die
Jarche, H (2013) Rebels on the edges
34. @HelenBevan
Jarche H (2014) Moving to the edges
Kotter J (2014) Accelerate! Harvard Business Review Press
Merchant N (2013) eleven rules for creating value in the social era
Llopis G (2014) Every leader must be a change agent or face extinction
Meyerson D (2001) Tempered Radicals: how people use differences to inspire change
at work Harvard
Meyerson D (2008) Rocking the boat: how to effect change without making trouble
Harvard BP
Perkins N (2014) Bats and pizzas (agility and organisational change)
Schillinger C (2014) Top-Down is a Serious Disease. But It Can Be Treated
School for health and Care radicals (2014) www.changeday.nhs.uk/healthcareradicals
Shinners C (2014) New Mindsets for the Workplace Web
Stoddard J (2014)The future of leadership
Williams B (2014) Working Out Loud: When You Do That… I Do This
Weber Shandwick (2014) Employees rising: seizing the opportunity in employee
activism
Verjans S (2013) How social media changes the way we work together
References and links
Notas del editor
Link belowhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23790147http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-pt-1-2/1293.html
With the brooding statue of Abraham Lincoln peering down at him, King began by telling protesters that their presence in the symbolic shadow of the "great emancipator" offered proof of the marvellous new militancy sweeping the country. For too long, he complained, black Americans had been exiles in their own land, "crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination".
The whirlwinds of revolt would continue to shake the very foundations of the country: "And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as normal," King said. It would be fatal for the nation "to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro".
“He's good - he's damned good”
Kennedy on King
Wearied by the suffocating heat, the crowd's initial response was muted. The speech was not going well. "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin," shouted Mahalia Jackson, referring to a rhetorical riff that King had used several times before, but which had not made it into his prepared speech because aides insisted he needed fresh material. But King decided to cast aside his prepared notes, and launched extemporaneously into the refrain for which he will forever be remembered.
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed," he shouted, his out-stretched right arm reaching towards the sky. Soon he was hitting his rhythm, invigorated by the chants and cries of the crowd. "Dream on!" they shouted. "Dream on!"
With his voice thundering down the Mall, King imagined a future in which his children could "live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character". Then he reached his impassioned finale.
King asked the crowd to yell so it was heard the world over
Watching at the White House, the president was riveted. Like so many Americans, it was the first time he had heard the 34-year-old preacher deliver a speech in its entirety - the first time he had taken its measure, listened to its cadence. "He's good," Kennedy told one of his advisors. "He's damned good." The aide was struck, however, that the president seemed impressed more by the quality of King's performance rather than the power of his message.
Cathedral and Bazaar is an essay, then book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods
Illustrates the struggle between top-down and bottom-up design
The Cathedral model: restricted access to code, code only available with each software release – controlled / limited / restricted / closed
The Bazaar model, in which the code is developed over the Internet in view of the public
Raymond's proposition that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - the more openly and widely available the source code is for public testing, scrutiny, and experimentation, the more rapidly all forms of bugs will be discovered.
Raymond claims that an inordinate amount of time and energy must be spent hunting for bugs in the Cathedral model, since the working version of the code is available only to a few developers.
Social Business Discussions Are The New Documentation
http://www.informationweek.com/software/social/social-business-discussions-are-the-new-documentation/d/d-id/898942
Gadgets & devices once came with printed user instructions / manuals
Inside organisations, the problem is the opposite – very little to no documentation (particularly about tacit knowledge)
When employees work out loud in a transparent social platform, they are documenting their tools and processes on the fly as they build them.
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