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.