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8Change in 2015
Steps to Accelerate
STEP #1: Create a Sense of Urgency
Your top leaders must describe an opportunity that will appeal to individuals’ heads and
hearts and use this statement to raise a large, urgent army of experts.
STEP #2: Build a
Guiding Coalition
A volunteer army needs a coalition
of effective people - coming from
its own ranks - to guide it,
coordinate it, and communicate its
activities.
STEP #3: Form a
Strategic Vision and
Initiatives
A vision must be bold, concise,
authentic and evoke a clear future
state. Initiatives must have defined
goals and link directly to the
strategy designed to create that
future state.
STEP #4: Enlist a Volunteer Army
Large-scale change can only occur when very significant numbers of employees amass
under a common opportunity and drive in the same direction.
STEP #5: Enable Action by
Removing Barriers
By removing barriers such as inefficient
processes or hierarchies, leaders provide the
freedom necessary for employees to work
across boundaries and create real impact.
STEP #6: Generate
Short-Term Wins
Wins are the molecules of results.
They must be collected, categorized
and communicated – early and often
– to track progress and energize your
volunteers to drive change.
STEP #7: Sustain Acceleration
Change leaders must adapt quickly in order to maintain their speed. Whether it's a new
way of finding talent or removing misaligned processes, they must determine what can
be done - every day - to stay the course towards the vision
5xCompanies
with engaged
employees
have 5 times
higher
shareholder
returns.
Organizations with a high
number of actively engaged
employees have an average of
147% higher earnings per share
than the norm.
44%
Real collaboration is
about stepping
outside of traditional
institutional
structures to focus on
results. In fact, there
is an 81% positive
correlation between
collaboration and
innovation.
It takes about six
years of hard work to
become an overnight
success.
-Seth Godin
37% of agile firms increase
revenue when they employ
leaders who strategically adapt
to any situation
The topic of change is in the foreground or background of every significant business conversation.
The theme? The marketplace is changing faster than our ability to keep up with it: change is outpacing
us. In fact, the inability to change is the primary reason that 70% of businesses fail to execute their
strategies. Kotter International's renowned and award-winning 8-Step Process for Leading Change
equips businesses with the means and method to transform themselves quickly, continuously and
with powerful results.
Sources:
http://www.hrmorning.com/infographic-employee-engagement-what-it-is-and-isnt/
http://businessjournal.gallup.com/content/146972/strengths-boost-engagement.aspx
http://info.4imprint.com/infographic/effective-collaboration-infographic/ via http://info.4imprint.com/podcast/effective-collaboration/
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/management/Mar-No/Mission-and-Vision-Statements.html via Business Week
http://www.bitrebels.com/lifestyle/habits-of-successful-leaders-infographic/
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/06/what-dave-just.html
http://www.bitrebels.com/lifestyle/habits-of-successful-leaders-infographic/ via HRD Press – Strategic Leadership Type Indicator
http://guides.wsj.com/management /developing-a-leadership-style/how-to-develop-a-leadership-style/
Accelerate by John Kotter, p. 16
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of leaders agree that
their own management
strategies are too
bureaucratic and are a
nuisance.
STEP #8: Institute Change
To ensure new behaviors are repeated
over the long-term, it’s important that
you define and communicate the
connections between these behaviors
and the organization’s success.
When surveyed, over
90% of managers and
employees said the
importance of agility
and speed has
increased in the last
five years
”
“
RESULT: You have a breadth of focused readiness across the workforce that is
unprecedented in your organization.
RESULT: The linchpin of your entire transformation is in place: an
accountable, diverse group bound by opportunity, strategy and action.
RESULT: You have a sizable body of employees excited and able to take action
on critically important initiatives linked to your business strategy.
RESULT: You have a single vision of the future with a credibility and
authority that comes from being crafted by a diverse set of employees and
validated by senior leaders.
RESULT: You have tangible evidence of
employee innovations stemming from collapsed
silos and new ways of working together.
RESULT: A body of wins data
that tells the story of your
transformation in validated,
quantifiable and qualifiable terms.
RESULT: You have confirmation of organizational fitness and stamina that enable
the reinvigoration of your mission and help you and your employees stay the course of
change over time.
RESULT: You have collective
recognition that your organization has a new
way of working with speed, agility and
innovation that directly contributes to
strategically important business results.
71% of the workforce in
America is actively disengaged.
This costs U.S. organizations
$300 billion annually.
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81%
BusinessWeek
attributes 30%
higher return on several key
measures for companies with
well-crafted statements of why the
business exists and its optimal
desired future state.
90%
37% INCREASE