Creating growth for a stronger future
Creating growth for a stronger future Organisations improve and grow with strong leadership, clear direction and efficient delivery. Creating growth for a stronger future is now more important than ever with pressure [...]
Creating an adaptive organisation culture the Zappos way
A company's culture is a result of how people in the organisation currently work, it is not what you think or hope it to be. To bring about cultural change in an organisation it is important to do things differently, making changes happen will lead to cultural changes and must be led from Senior Management.
Kotter’s Leading Change Step 8: Institutionalising New Approaches
Kotter's Leading Change Step 8 Institutionalising New Approaches Overview The final step in Kotter's process for Leading Change* is the institutionalisation of new approaches into the organisation. An organisation's behavioural [...]
Kotter’s Leading Change Step 7: Consolidating Improvements and Producing Still More Change
Kotter's Leading Change Step 7: Consolidating Improvements and Producing Still More Change Overview In any change process, beware celebrating change too early. In Kotter's seminal book Leading Change* the change process includes [...]
Kotter’s Leading Change Step 6: Planning for and Creating Short-Term Wins
Kotter's Leading Change Step 6 Planning for and Creating Short-Term Wins Overview Planning for and creating short-term wins as outlined in Kotter's seminal book Leading Change* is important to the long term [...]
Kotter’s Leading Change Step 5: Empowering Others to Act on the Vision
Kotter's Leading Change Step 5 Empowering Others to Act on the Vision Overview The time to empower others to act on the need to change should happen once the foundations are put [...]
Kotter’s Leading Change Step 4: Communicating the Vision
Kotter's Leading Change Step 4 Communicating the Vision Overview There is little point in having an agreed vision for change if it is not communicated. Communicating the vision is the fourth step [...]
Kotter’s Leading Change Step 3: Creating a Vision
Transforming an organisation takes vision. Kotter's seminal book called Leading Change outlines eight steps to turn a vision for change into reality. The third step in his process is creating the vision, this is done once a sense of urgency for the change has been created and a powerful guiding coalition is formed to then create the vision.
Kotter’s Leading Change Step 2: Forming a Powerful Guiding Coalition
To deliver transformational change in your organisation, a powerful guiding coalition is needed. Kotter's seminal book called Leading Change outlines eight steps to deliver change, the first being establishing a sense of urgency followed by forming a powerful guiding coalition which is examined here.
Kotter’s Leading Change Step 1: Establishing a Sense of Urgency
The first step in Kotter's steps to transform your organisation is to establish a sense of urgency, in effect ensuring there is motivation for the change to take place. Change is hard and without a strong uniting force that underpins their understanding of why the change is necessary to the survival of the business it is unlikely to gain traction and succeed.
Kotter’s Leading Change – Steps to renew your organisation
John P. Kotter's seminal book Leading Change published in 1996 is now more than ever a go-to book to understand how to deliver change in businesses and organisations. Kotter's eight steps to transforming your organisation are explored including: Urgency; Powerful Guiding Coalitions; Vision; Communicating the Vision; Empowering Others to Act; Short-Term Wins; Improvements and More Change, and; Institutionalising New Approaches.