ChangeMethod
Visible Change Leadership
Best Practice Area 02

Visible Change Leadership: Guiding Transformation

Empower leaders to inspire and drive successful change programs.

The Key Question
"Who, from amongst or around us, will show the way and what qualities and capabilities will be required of them?"
Best Practice 02

Change leadership is the ability of those who direct, plan, and guide the organization through changes in order to accomplish business goals.

This best practice area aids clarity of thinking in this respect and define measurable targets for the change project or programme.

The visible change leadership processes help executives to effectively lead change at various levels of the organization.

They help leaders to understand their roles and responsibilities and serve as role models for the desired behaviors in the workforce.

Successful change leaders create a shared vision for change, gain commitment to the change goals and lead their people through transformational change.

01

Develop Change Leaders

Purpose
  • Develop leader capacity to inspire and steer organization through a period of change and achieve strategic objectives
  • Identify change leadership requirements, assess existing capability and address gaps through leadership action plans
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of change leadership intervention
Step 1

Define change leadership needs

Step 2

Assess current leadership and evaluate gap

Step 3

Develop change leadership activity plans

Step 4

Evaluate change leadership effectiveness

Benefits
  • Change leadership interventions targeted where most needed
  • Senior leader styles aligned requirements of the change program
  • Change visibly supported by leaders, stakeholder more likely to embrace new ways of working and change program benefits realized
Risks If Ignored
  • Absence of effective direction, guidance and support for change program
  • Inability to move beyond status quo
  • Undermines leadership authority and future capacity for change
Templates
Change Leadership Competencies Change Leadership Assessment Change Leadership Activity Plan
Tools
Change Leadership Approach Indicator Change Leadership Style Indicator Force Field Analysis for Change Management
02

Support Change Leaders

Purpose
  • Recognizes change leadership is not a one-time event or process: it must be fostered in order to flourish
  • Provide coaching support to unlock individual change leader competencies and behaviors
Step 1

Review change leadership development plans

Step 2

Coach for change leadership

Step 3

Evaluate change leader effectiveness

Step 4

Offer change leader feedback

Benefits
  • Develop individual change leader confidence
  • Increase change leader ability to inspire stakeholder commitment to change
  • Increased speed of adoption, change program benefits and ROI
Risks If Ignored
  • Visible disconnect between change leadership words and actions
  • High level of employee disengagement
  • Low levels of adoption and benefit realization, wasted financial investments
Templates
Change Leadership Coaching Plan
Tools
Coaching Distinctions Coaching Readiness Assessment

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