Change Leadership

The gap between what we know is needed and what executives can “tolerate” creates numerous challenges for us as change leaders. How do we ensure successful adoption and sustainment of results if our leaders are not setting up the necessary conditions for successful change? Dr. Dean Anderson explores strategies for how to become a trusted strategic advisor to senior leaders.

This tool provides you with an extensive list of optional questions for your briefing interviews. Identifying your Project Briefing QuestionsThe questions cover the background and history of the effort, its current status, and its future plans as known today. The best briefing interviews ask for the most focused and leveraged information.

This tool provides you with an extensive list of optional questions for your briefing interviews. Identifying your Project Briefing QuestionsThe questions cover the background and history of the effort, its current status, and its future plans as known today. The best briefing interviews ask for the most focused and leveraged information.

The process of envisioning is as important as the vision you create. Conscious Change Leadership teams typically decide to involve a significant part – or even all – of the organization in the visioning process. Download this tool for suggested approaches, techniques, and tips for building your vision. Use the included worksheet to discuss and agree on each component of your visioning process as shaped for your project. Enter your conclusions and strategies in the appropriate spaces.

Conditions for success are requirements essential to the achievement of your desired outcome, such as adequate resources, sufficient time to do a top-notch job, or quality communications that keep everyone engaged. Conditions for success may also refer to a particular state of being that enables the transformation to occur more smoothly, such as the leaders taking a conscious approach, the executives presenting a unified front in support of the transformation, and people realizing that their needs are actually being considered as the transformation is planned and implemented.

Conscious breathing can improve your performance in everything you do. Elite athletes use their breath to “center” themselves for high performance. Discover a simple breath control technique that can make you a better leader.

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson describes the ten most critical responsibilities for a sponsor of transformational change to fulfill, and how each one directly adds to the success of the effort.

Capacity is what enables people to get their work done, be it their normal day-to-day work or their change work. If your organization does not have or generate the capacity for change, you are at risk of failing to achieve your expected results. The first thing to do is assess your current capacity. Here is the list of steps to conduct a change capacity review so you can find out where you stand so you can free up or build the capacity you need.

When leading transformational change, one of the obstacles you will inevitably deal with is company politics.
This tool lists 22 effective ways of shifting the organizational culture to reduce or eliminate the impact of these dynamics.

The Initial Impact Analysis Tool is a simple and powerful tool to use at the launch of a change initiative to prepare you to understand the full scope of your change initiative.