Vertical Leadership Development: The Answer to Today’s Organizational and Social Challenges
Category: Breakthrough, Change Leadership, Change Strategy, Communications, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Partnering, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Social Change, Team Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:26:22-06:00Vertical leadership develops leaders from the inside out. Like climbing a ladder to get a bigger perspective, it expands your mindset and worldview, so you can handle greater complexity. This increases innovation, creativity and your ability to lead into the future.
Integrating Culture Change In Project Scope, Design and Roll-Out Webinar
Category: Capacity, Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Strategy, Communications, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Organization Transformation, Social Change
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-07-17T18:24:03-06:00Every significant change is affected by the organization's existing culture, either positively or as an inhibitor. It must be considered from the beginning and not as an after-thought. This webinar explores how to address culture change in all types of projects so that the cultural dynamics impacting them are overt and designed to support the sustainment of desired outcomes.
How Conscious Change Leadership Enables Visionary Leaders to Solve Strategic Challenges and Achieve Breakthrough Results
Category: Breakthrough, Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Social Change, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2020-04-28T18:17:06-06:00Leaders must break free of traditional thinking because conventional mindsets and approaches to transformation are not sufficient in today’s 21st Century VUCA environment, where volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity reign. This webinar explores how visionary leaders navigate complexity and solve big strategic challenges to achieve breakthrough results through Conscious Change Leadership.
Why Culture Change Success is Directly Linked to CEO Behavior
Category: Breakthrough, CEO Insights, Change Leadership, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Partnering, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Social Change, Stakeholder Engagement, Team Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-10-14T18:02:00-06:00In this webinar you will learn the most effective culture change strategy and leadership style that creates a safe environment and inspires managers and employees to change. We will explore how you can inspire your leaders and stakeholders to change company culture in positive ways to achieve your organization's vision.
How Visionary Leaders Build Trust in Their Teams
Category: Breakthrough, CEO Insights, Change Leadership, Change Management, Communications, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Partnering, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Social Change, Stakeholder Engagement, Team Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-10-11T19:44:11-06:00Building trust in an organization takes more than hanging a motivational poster on a wall and having a leader who says all the “right” things. This webinar explores how to embed trust into teams and organizational culture and identifies the critical skills a visionary leader uses to create trust and develop teams for high performance.
Discover 4Sight: The Advanced Conscious Change Leadership Development Program
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Social Change, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-10-31T19:36:10-06:00Drs. Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson, co-creators of 4Sight and the authors of the cutting-edge books that introduced this new field of Conscious Change Leadership, provide an overview of a deeply profound personal and professional development opportunity called 4Sight.
What It Take to Go Beyond Change Management Webinar
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Organization Transformation
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-11-19T13:15:34-07:00Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson explores the benefits of becoming more of a strategic change consultant positioned and capable of influencing the way change projects are led from the very beginning. Take your skills and brand beyond change management.
Self Assessment: Pursuing Your Own Vertical Leadership Development
Category: Change Leadership, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation, Self Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:26:31-06:00This assessment lists twenty key developments leaders make as they move from conventional to post-conventional stages in Vertical Leadership Development. Each support your increasing success as a Conscious Change Leader.
How Visionary Leaders Pursue Breakthrough Results
Category: Breakthrough, Change Leadership, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation, Self Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: E-Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:13:50-06:00It takes courage and a bold stance to establish a vision that is truly extraordinary. Dr. Dean Anderson explores how visionary leaders inspire the passion and capability of their people to achieve breakthrough results.
Achieving Breakthrough Requires Transformation in Four Key Areas
Category: Breakthrough, Change Leadership, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation, Self Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: E-Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:13:51-06:00Visionary leaders must know how to identify which of these key areas must transform to "break through" current ways of operating or current performance standards to achieve your largest visions.
Scales of Breakthrough: Personal, Team, Organizational, Communities Webinar
Category: Breakthrough, Change Leadership, Change Strategy, Communications, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Partnering, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Social Change, Sponsorship, Team Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:13:51-06:00Executive leaders are responsible for their teams to reach certain goals towards their organization’s vision. No matter what your pursuit – personal, relational, team, organizational, or community – in this webinar we explore the consistent human and process dynamics of transformation involved that play out in all levels of scale that help you reach your vision.
How Leaders Excel with a Breakthrough Mindset
Category: Breakthrough, Change Leadership, Change Strategy, Communications, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Partnering, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Social Change, Sponsorship, Team Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-04-13T14:41:10-06:00 Mindset work is interior work and starts with a personal journey of breaking through our own fear-clouded performance ceilings. In this webinar, we’ll explore what mindset is, where it comes from, how it works, and how we can transform it into a Breakthrough Mindset and achieve your vision.
How Leaders Use Mindfulness to Drive Organizational Culture Webinar
Category: Change Leadership, Communications, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Social Change, Sponsorship, Team Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:13:51-06:00How Conscious Change Leaders use mindfulness to bridge the enormous gap between their mindful leadership practice and the outdated systems, policies and procedures that shackle most organizations from transforming their culture.
Awake at the Wheel: Moving Beyond Change Management to Conscious Change Leadership
Category: Change Leadership, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: E-Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:18:05-06:00In this eBook, you will discover a new leadership paradigm, skills and methods to achieve breakthrough in business results, culture and leadership in all your complex change efforts.
How to Grow Yourself from the Inside Out to Maximize Career Success, Personal Development and Satisfaction Webinar
Category: Breakthrough, Change Leadership, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Mindset, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:18:05-06:00In this webinar, we unpack the challenge of accepting yourself as you are (now) while changing the aspects of yourself that are not optimal or to your liking. We'll also address how to use your life experiences, and personal reactions to them, to spur your personal development.
How to Manage Your Inner State for High Performance Webinar
Category: Breakthrough, Change Leadership, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Mindset, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:18:05-06:00No matter what your pursuit - leadership, sports, parenting, life in general - the ability to manage your inner state is the foundation for success. The better you are at this, the more you deliver your full potential. Without this super power, high performance is hit and miss. Learn the fundamentals in self-development of managing your mind and emotions to express your Best Self in all you do.
The Win-Win-Win Co-Creative Model
Category: Breakthrough, Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Partnering, Team Mastery
Type: Articles, Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-04-13T13:12:23-06:00When individuals or groups commit first and foremost to the needs of the whole project, they become teammates pursuing common goals. This mindset of going for the Big Win changes the whole game. We call this new way, “Co-Creating.”
Designing Your Organization-Wide Visioning Process
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Organization Transformation
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:18:05-06:00The 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.
Does Your Company Have the Capacity to Change?
Category: Capacity, Change Methodology and Tools
Type: E-Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:18:05-06:00In this free eBook, you will learn how to deal with the daunting issue of managing capacity across change initiatives and operations.
How to Work with Senior Leaders Who Don’t Get It
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Communications, Culture Change, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:18:06-06:00The 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.
Ten Strategies to Work with Senior Leaders Who Don’t Get It Tool
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Strategy, Leadership Development
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:18:06-06:00This resource includes ten proven strategies for working with senior leaders who do not fully understand the people or change process dynamics impacting success on change initiatives.
How Leaders Transform Mindset and Behavior to Solve Complex Challenges
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Leadership Development, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:18:06-06:00Dr. Dean Anderson and Andrew Johnson discuss a breakthrough in executive development and answer the questions:
- What is Vertical Leadership Development?
- What happens when leaders grow vertically?
- Which stages of adult development are necessary for transformation?
- What is Vertical Leadership Development?
- What happens when leaders grow vertically?
- Which stages of adult development are necessary for transformation?
The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate the Complexities of Your Organization’s Transformation
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: E-Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:14:21-06:00How do you design and implement a major organization transformation so that you actually achieve results? Is there a roadmap to follow? Yes, there is.
Engagement: How It Can Unleash the Human Potential in Your Organization
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Employee Engagement, Organization Transformation
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:14:21-06:00Stakeholder engagement, done well, can unleash the human potential in your organization. But you will need to take a more advanced approach to stakeholder engagement than you will find in most change efforts.
Achieving Organizational Change Within Your Company: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Category: Change Leadership, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: E-Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:14:22-06:00In this free eBook, you will learn the three key components to leading change effectively, and why even the most ambitious executives end up falling short in their process.
22 Strategies for Dealing with Negative Political Dynamics During Change Tool
Category: Change Leadership, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Culture Change, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:14:22-06:00When 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.
This tool lists 22 effective ways of shifting the organizational culture to reduce or eliminate the impact of these dynamics.
13 Steps to Conduct a Change Capacity Review
Category: Capacity, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Organization Transformation
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:14:22-06:00Capacity 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.
Bill Torbert and Dean Anderson Discuss Characteristics of a Team Where a New Level of Trust is Possible
Category: Change Leadership, Culture Change, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Self Mastery, Team Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:30-06:00Vertical Leadership Development is key to building a new level of trust during transformational change. It enables leaders to co-create solutions to complex challenges they could not solve previously. Watch Bill Torbert and Dean Anderson discuss the breakthroughs in trust and results that naturally occur when leaders develop greater self-mastery and the ability to dialogue openly.
Assessment: Is Your Organization Suffering from These Symptoms of Poor Change Leadership?
Category: Change Leadership, Change Methodology and Tools, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:31-06:00Does your organization suffer from these symptoms - caused by poor change leadership and ineffective change strategies? To find out, take the Symptoms of Poor Change Leadership Assessment.
How a Conscious Leader Raises the Bar to Achieve Breakthrough
Category: Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation
Type: Audio
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:31-06:00Dr. Dean Anderson provides an overview of Conscious Change Leadership and explores why leaders must expand their worldview and perspective if they want to achieve their biggest visions and aspirations. Dean explains why a leader’s current mindset is often inadequate for the task, and how transforming mindset opens up new possibilities for achievement.
The Miracle of Conscious Change Leadership and Unleashing Human Potential
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Self Mastery
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:31-06:00Watch Dean Anderson describe Conscious Change Leadership.
Clarifying Shared Accountability Partnership Agreements Tool
Category: Change Strategy, Communications, Organization Transformation, Partnering, Team Mastery
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:31-06:00This partnering tool is designed to help key players, change leaders and teams build strong, sustainable relationships that will foster achievement and learning – simultaneously.
Ten Questions That Catalyze Great Change Leadership
Category: Change Leadership, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: E-Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:31-06:00A good change consultant's primary job is to catalyze insight and clear thinking in their clients so their executive leaders are able to lead their organization's change efforts with greater skill and competency. In this free eBook we provide you with questions that promote the right type of thinking and actions to support change.
Beyond Change Management
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management
Type: Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:32-06:00Ten Core Competencies and Responsibilities of Good Transformational Sponsors
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation, Sponsorship
Type: Audio
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:32-06:00Dr. 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.
Questions that Educate Tool
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Culture Change
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-05-03T13:30:58-06:00Use this worksheet to help leaders and others see what they are missing to make change initiatives more successful.
How to Be a Strong Leader in the Face of Uncertainty
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:33-06:00A common assumption among leaders and managers is that their success is dependent on having the right answers at the right time and providing clear direction to their people amidst the clamor of day-to-day operations. This may have been historically true when the pace and complexity of change were moderate, but is far less so in times of large scale, high-pressured transformational change.
In this article we will outline six key actions that you can take to stay on top of the “bucking bronco” of change and continue to provide guidance and stability. We will demonstrate how these actions provide sound leadership in times of uncertainty, as well as debunk the faulty assumption that you, as the leader, should be all-knowing.
In this article we will outline six key actions that you can take to stay on top of the “bucking bronco” of change and continue to provide guidance and stability. We will demonstrate how these actions provide sound leadership in times of uncertainty, as well as debunk the faulty assumption that you, as the leader, should be all-knowing.
Developing an Organization Assessment Strategy
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Organization Transformation
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:33-06:00This 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.
A Candid Message to Senior Leaders: Ten Ways to Dramatically Increase the Success of Your Change Efforts
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:33-06:00In this article, we want to share with you what we perceive you need to be doing—or doing differently, or to stop doing altogether—to get the return on investment you need from the change efforts you sponsor or lead. This is a candid portrayal based on our observations of our senior executive clients over the past four decades. The picture we paint here is further fortified by what we consistently hear from other seasoned consultants and project managers, both external experts and internal professionals, about the successes and challenges they face in getting their senior leaders to do what is required for change to succeed.
Factors Affecting Readiness and Capacity to Change Info Sheet
Category: Capacity, Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:33-06:00Your chances of succeeding in your current organizational change efforts are directly affected by your people's level of readiness and capacity to change. This Info Sheet provides a comprehensive list of dynamics that influence both readiness and capacity. Many leaders never address these topics in preparation for a major change effort. Some resist delving into such matters. However, inquiring into these subjects will likely surface information that, although it may be uncomfortable for the leaders to acknowledge, is key to aligning their change strategy with the true condition of the organization. At the very least, raising these topics will start many conversations among leaders and employees that would never otherwise have occurred, all in the name of building awareness for leading conscious transformation.
Daryl Conner and Dean Anderson Discuss Senior Change Practitioner Development
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Leadership Development, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:33-06:00How do you, as a Senior Change Consultant, become a trusted advisor to the executive leaders you support? Consultants often think that providing great tools and techniques is the solution, but the key is developing your character and Presence. Who you are, and how you show up, matters most. Learn more in this video snippet, as Dean discusses with Daryl Conner how developing yourself from the “inside out” can help you become a trusted advisor to senior executives.
The Strategic Change Office: How to Ensure Enterprise-Wide Success from Change
Category: Capacity, Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Organization Transformation
Type: White Papers
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:34-06:00This white paper outlines a radical new approach to building your organization’s change capability.
Introducing Circle Breathing Tool
Category: Change Leadership, Change Methodology and Tools, Conscious Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation, Personal Change, Self Mastery, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:34-06:00Conscious 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.
How to Implement a Common Change Methodology to Increase Your Organization’s Change Results and Skill
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:34-06:00In this article, we will outline a seven-step process that will enable your organization to actually implement a common approach to change and maximize your return on this key investment. The benefits your organization will realize by developing a common change methodology are significant.
Multiple Project Integration Strategy Info Sheet
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Organization Transformation
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:34-06:00Your Multiple Project Integration Strategy can increase speed, action, and resource sharing across all distinct and concurrent change efforts, and reduce the cost of change to your organization. This approach minimizes chaos, redundancy of effort, competition for time and resources, and negative political dynamics.
Performing an Initial Impact Analysis Tool
Category: Capacity, Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:34-06:00The 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.
Stakeholder Engagement: Opportunities, Types, and Vehicles Info Sheet
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Communications, Employee Engagement
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:34-06:00Creating an effective stakeholder engagement strategy is an extremely important aspect of your overall change strategy. This Info Sheet will help you think through the key aspects of stakeholder engagement in preparation for designing your engagement strategy.
Strategies for Securing Commitment Info Sheet
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Employee Engagement
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:35-06:00Obtaining commitment from your leaders and employees is absolutely essential to the success of your change effort. A key to achieving commitment is understanding its different levels, and how to nurture people from one level to the next.
The diagram on this Info Sheet represents the six very distinct and different levels of commitment that exist in people.
The diagram on this Info Sheet represents the six very distinct and different levels of commitment that exist in people.
The Five Keys to Successful Executive Coaching
Category: Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:35-06:00Executives have never before been as challenged in their roles as they are today. The business challenges they face are enormous—globalization and the integration of cultures, unheard-of technological advances, increasingly sophisticated customers AND employees, a struggling economy, and the need to find business performance enhancers beyond cost-cutting and downsizing.
In this article, we describe the five keys to success that we believe will make every coach, and the executives they work with, far more successful.
In this article, we describe the five keys to success that we believe will make every coach, and the executives they work with, far more successful.
The Keys to Effective Decision-Making
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:35-06:00Decision-making can be a powerful tool for modeling a new culture, and for catalyzing tremendous employee commitment to your organization's change effort…if it is done effectively. In this article, we will reveal the keys to effective decision-making, identify why decision-making has such widespread impact on the success of transformational change initiatives, and provide tips and a simple yet effective decision-making tool to increase the positive impact of your decision-making.
The Strategic Importance of Change Leaders Modeling the Change
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Strategy, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:35-06:00One of the toughest change efforts we supported was made more difficult because the CEO was not willing to change himself in the very ways he was demanding that his organization change. The company was transforming its strategy, operations, business processes, and culture.
This article explores the key change leadership issue of “modeling,” and provides insights for how you can get your leaders to model the changes they are asking of your organization.
This article explores the key change leadership issue of “modeling,” and provides insights for how you can get your leaders to model the changes they are asking of your organization.
Levels of Commitment Info Sheet
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Employee Engagement
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:35-06:00Obtaining commitment from your leaders and employees is absolutely essential to the success of your change effort. A key to achieving commitment is understanding its different levels, and how to nurture people from one level to the next.
The diagram on this Info Sheet represents the six very distinct and different levels of commitment that exist in people.
The diagram on this Info Sheet represents the six very distinct and different levels of commitment that exist in people.
Building Change Leadership Capability: Leading Change as a Strategic Discipline
Category: Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: White Papers
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:35-06:00This white paper explores how to build your organization’s change capability through leading change as a strategic organizational discipline.
Bill Torbert’s video, Adult Ego Development: Part I
Category: Leadership Development, Mindset, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:35-06:00Dean Anderson and Bill Torbert discuss Ego Development, the application of Ego Development Theory in organizations, and the importance of late stage leadership in addressing transformation.
Bill Torbert’s video, Adult Ego Development: Part II
Category: Leadership Development, Mindset, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:35-06:00In part two of this video, Dean Anderson and Bill Torbert discuss Ego Development, the application of Ego Development Theory in organizations, and the importance of late stage leadership in addressing transformation.
Ego Development: 9 Levels of Increasing Embrace
Category: Leadership Development, Mindset, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:36-06:00Designing Your Engagement Strategy
Category: Change Methodology and Tools, Employee Engagement
Type: Articles, Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:36-06:00This highly pragmatic tool walks you through the critical steps for building an effective stakeholder engagement strategy.
Building Your Change Strategy: How to Ensure that Your Effort Is on the Right Track
Category: Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:36-06:00The Human Dynamics of Change – Part 2: Mindset and Other Invisible Causes of Success (and failure)
Category: Change Leadership, Communications, Employee Engagement
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-11-01T16:37:42-06:00In part two of this webinar, Dean goes deeper into the underlying causes of resistance. He addresses mindset and culture, shows how awareness and mindfulness are the fundamental “cures” of resistance, and provides tips on how to assist stakeholders to become more mindful and release their resistance.
Initiative Launch Checklist
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:39-06:00To effectively launch your change initiative, consider the topics in this checklist. Check those topics that you will use to plan your launch strategy and work. Depending on the complexity and status of your initiative, you may need to take all or just some of these actions. If you are beyond the launch stage, review this list for actions that may still provide benefit to the smooth change leadership of your initiative.
Change Leadership: Minimizing the Chaos of Transformation
Category: Change Leadership, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:39-06:00This article outlines four best practices to minimize chaos during transformational change and keep your change efforts from spinning out of control: project integration, timelines and change capacity, human and organizational culture dynamics, and real stakeholder engagement.
Topics to Assess Your Change Process Info Sheet
Category: Capacity, Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:39-06:00Given the assumption that change is continuous, and your intention is to strengthen your organization's ongoing capacity to lead large-scale change, this Info Sheet lists the different factors to consider in order for you to learn from your change process and establish best practices.
Dean Anderson and Daryl Conner on the Field of Change Management
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:39-06:00Watch Dean Anderson and Daryl Conner discuss the past, present, and future of change management.
Dean Anderson and Susanne Cook-Greuter’s discussion on human development
Category: Leadership Development, Mindset, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:39-06:00Dean Anderson and Susanne Cook-Greuter discuss Ego Development, how leadership changes throughout development, and the importance of late stage leadership in addressing transformation.
Dean Anderson at ACMP Panel Highlights
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:40-06:00Dean Anderson on the Future of Change Management
Category: Change Leadership, Change Management, Organization Transformation
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:40-06:00Watch highlights from Dean’s panel as he discusses the future of the field of change management with other prominent thought leaders.
Do Your Leaders Have the Mindset to Succeed at Transformation?
Category: Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Mindset, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:40-06:00This article provides an excellent overview of why change leadership mindset is so critical, examples of the mindsets that limit change success, and why introspection is essential to delivering real transformation.
Driving Organizational Culture Change through Co-Creative Change Leadership
Category: Change Leadership, Culture Change, Mindset
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:40-06:00Dean Anderson and Bill Joiner’s discussion on Leadership Agility
Category: Leadership Development, Mindset, Vertical Leadership Development
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:40-06:00Dean Anderson and Bill Joiner discuss Leadership Agility, the concepts of vertical learning, and the future of leadership.
Get Real: Plan for the True Magnitude of Change
Category: Capacity, Change Methodology and Tools, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:40-06:00Getting Smart About Employee Resistance to Change: Part One
Category: Communications, Employee Engagement
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:41-06:00This article outlines what causes employee resistance, what resolves it, and how to work with it to maximize the results you achieve in your organizational change efforts.
Getting Smart About Employee Resistance to Change: Part Two
Category: Communications, Employee Engagement
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:41-06:00Continuing from part one, this article expands the exploration into what causes employee resistance and how best to resolve it.
How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership
Category: Change Leadership, Change Methodology and Tools, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation, Self Mastery
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:15:41-06:00Identifying Your Project Briefing Questions
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Organization Transformation
Type: Tools
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:49-06:00This 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.
Change Governance Structures Info Sheet
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:50-06:00The roles you define and the teams you form are best managed by creating a governance structure. The structure you create will also articulate the working relationships among all of the parties, and clarify the flow of information and authority. Your structure runs in parallel with your normal business governance structure; it does not replace it.
How to Increase Employee Commitment to Change
Category: Culture Change, Employee Engagement
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:50-06:00This article provides an invaluable tool for articulating what is driving your change so your employees can fully understand and commit to it.
Linda Ackerman Anderson on Culture Change
Category: Change Strategy, Culture Change, Organization Transformation
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:50-06:00Watch Linda’s presentation on culture change as both a driver and an outcome of organizational transformation.
Military Leader Development at National Defense University
Category: Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:50-06:00Leadership Breakthrough: Meeting the Transformational Challenges of the 21st Century Security Environment. Watch the whole panel here.
Three Types of Change that Occur in Organizations Info Sheet
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T15:12:50-06:00Three types of change occur in organizations: developmental, transitional, and transformational. Developmental change is the least complex, while transformational change is the most complex. The following graphics depict each of the three types of change, and the Three Types of Change Matrix that follows provides information about each type.
Case for Change Framework Infographic
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:37-06:00To ensure a successful organizational transformation one of the first steps to take is to create a clear case for change. Without one, the transformation will lack relevance for employees and cause resistance, confusion, and insecurity. Creating the case for change and your initial objectives creates a common view about the change and gives the effort meaning, direction, and energy.
This infographic shows the framework required to create a successful Case for Change.
This infographic shows the framework required to create a successful Case for Change.
Sample Conditions for Success Info Sheet
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Organization Transformation
Type: Info Sheets
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:37-06:00Conditions 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.
Six Faulty Assumptions about Organizational Change Communications
Category: Change Leadership, Communications, Employee Engagement
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:37-06:00Stakeholder Engagement: Opportunities, Types, and Vehicles
Category: Change Methodology and Tools, Employee Engagement
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:38-06:00This most popular article outlines the key opportunities for stakeholder engagement in any organizational change effort. It includes a framework for sorting through who to engage, in what activities, and in what ways.
What is Transformation, and Why Is It So Hard to Manage?
Category: Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:38-06:00This article outlines the three types of change and their implications on the workforce.
Ten Common Mistakes in Leading Transformational Change
Category: Change Leadership, Change Strategy
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:38-06:00Increase your success by avoiding these common change leadership mistakes. This paper outlines our most current findings from our thirty year action research project on what causes failure and success in large scale transformational change.
How Command and Control as a Change Leadership Style Causes Transformational Change Efforts to Fail
Category: Change Leadership, Leadership Development, Mindset
Type: Articles, E-Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:38-06:00Your leadership style will make or break your organization's transformational change efforts. Find out why in this free eBook.
Linda Ackerman Anderson at ACMP Sample
Category: Change Strategy, Culture Change, Organization Transformation
Type: Videos
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:38-06:00Excerpts from Linda Ackerman Anderson at ACMP 2014.
The Upstream Stage of Leading Organizational Change: Project Launch Webinar
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Organization Transformation, Sponsorship
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:38-06:00So many of the challenges we face in leading change are born in the Upstream Stage, which is when leaders need to be making key decisions to launch their major change initiatives successfully. Typically, leaders are so rushed to get the right solution to their problem that they blindly delegate project launch without providing adequate guidance. This webinar explores how to launch change effectively.
Stakeholder Engagement: How to Reduce Resistance
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Conscious Change Leadership, Employee Engagement, Organization Transformation, Sponsorship, Stakeholder Engagement
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-05-13T18:10:05-06:00In this webinar, Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson discusses key, early stakeholder engagement opportunities and reveals how change leaders can maximize these opportunities to save time, save money and increase commitment and meaningful participation.
The Change Leader’s Roadmap
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership
Type: Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:38-06:00Why Leading Transformation Successfully Requires a Shift of Leadership Mindset
Category: Change Leadership, Mindset, Organization Transformation
Type: Articles
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:38-06:00Developing Talent for Organizational Results
Category: Change Leadership
Type: Books
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:36:39-06:00Human Dynamics of Organizational Change & Transformation – Part 1: Turning Resistance into Commitment
Category: Change Leadership, Communications, Employee Engagement
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-11-01T16:36:02-06:00In part one of this webinar, Dean Anderson provides insight and methods for assisting employees to move out of resistance to full commitment to their organization’s change efforts. He explores core human need and how they “cause” resistance, and the emotional transitions people go through to move through resistance.
Strategic Intelligence of Using a Common Change Methodology
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Leadership, Change Management, Change Methodology and Tools, Change Strategy, Organization Transformation
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-06-06T15:52:25-06:00In this free webinar, Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson outlines the challenges, risks and problems that occur in organizations that use multiple approaches to change, reveals the many benefits of using a common process methodology, and reviews the nine phases of The Change Leader's Roadmap Methodology.
Savvy Strategies for Implementing a Common Change Methodology
Category: Change Leader’s Roadmap, Change Methodology and Tools, Organization Transformation
Type: Videos, Webinars
Dianna Bensch 2019-03-22T14:15:29-06:00In the second part of two parts, Linda describes eight key strategies that ensure your organization will get full benefit from using a common change process methodology.