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Steps to Success


to Transforming the Organisation
  1. Establish a Sense of Urgency
    - Examine market and competitive realities.
    - Identify and discuss crises, potential crises, or major opportunities.
     
  2. Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition
    - Assemble a group with enough power to lead the change effort.
    - Encourage the group to work together as a team.
     
  3. Create a Vision
    - Creating a vision to help direct the change effort.
    - Develop strategies for achieving that vision.
     
  4. Communicate the Vision
    - Use every vehicle possible to communicate the new vision and strategies.
    - Teach new behaviours by the example of the guiding coalition.
     
  5. Empower Others to Act on the Vision
    - Get rid of obstacles to change. Change systems or structures that seriously undermine the vision.
    - Encourage risk taking and non-traditional ideas, activities, and actions.
     
  6. Plan for and Create Short-term Wins
    - Plan for visible performance improvements.
    - Create those improvements.
    - Recognise and reward employees involved in the improvements.
     
  7. Consolidate Improvements and Produce Still More Change
    - Use increased credibility to change systems, structures, and policies that don't fit the vision.
    - Hire, promote and develop employees who can implement the vision.
    - Reinvigorate the process with new projects, themes and change agents.
     
  8. Institutionalise New Approaches
    - Articulate the connections between the new behaviours and corporate success.
    - Develop the means to ensure leadership development and succession.
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