Change Management!

Maybe the subject might sound boring, however, it is a very important issue for companies and even for our personal life. It is about "changing" something and managing it successfully. This might be the "organizational structure of a department" or your new "diet program". It is all same, all about behaviors and the change process is almost the same.

As far as I've seen, the change methodology is given best by Kotter and it is as following:

Step 1: Create Urgency

This stage is all about motivating the workplace to consider change and get them to buy into it.

Step 2: Form a Powerful Coalation

Here you will continue to promote the power of change and the reasons for it.

Step 3: Create Vision For Change

Work with the change team for ideas for strategy and vision.

Step 4: Communicate The Vision

With vision in hand, clearly begin to communicate it to the entire organization.

Step 5: Empower Others to Act on the Vision

This is the step were you can start to acheive the benefits from your vision of change. Install the structure for change and moniter it regularly for issues.

Step 6: Create Short Term Wins

Have your change team create short term wins that include very small changes. This will allow the people to taste some success.

Step 7: Build on the Change

Real long lasting change is not automatic and still has to be developed. For change to be sustainable and long lasting it requires persistance and patience.

Step 8: Make Change Stick

The final stage requires continuous efforts to ensure that the change is seen in every aspect of your organization.

For more details about Kotter's way of change management, please visit:

http://www.expertprogrammanagement.com/2010/11/kotter-change-how-to-lead-change/

Change Management

Hello to all,

Let me update you with my recent activities. To be honest, It has been a quite exciting and motivating summer until now. I am taking part in a "leadership training" at work and it has many modules which influences me completely. Such as, getting formal education on leadership, having a professional coach, attending to Harvard Business School's online Harvard Manage Mentor program and etc.

In the first part of this education we are focusing on "self awareness" and "knowing yourself". Because these are the only prerequisites to start my journey of change management to become a good leader (to lead my personal and professional life), I am taking it extremely important!

Since this change is my responsibility and depends only on me, I am also looking for some other relevant sources of information to support this journey as well. This video from TED is one of the new findings I would like to share with you as a starting point. It is short, clear and highly motivating to show you how to take the lead of your own change management. I loved it, and I hope you'll love it too.

BTW, to give you a "heads up", you can imagine, leadership issue will be a dominating topic for my posts for a while :-)

(Also, please keep in mind that currently I am using my twitter account (@yorgans) more frequently than this blog. So, follow me for my shorter but more updated relevant posts @twitter in case you are interested)

Finally, please enjoy this video from Matt Cutts and comment on it with your "something new" :-)
I will tell mine to the commentators. :-)
Cheers.