VISIBLE CHANGE LEADERSHIP
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.
Visible Change Leadership
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.
Key Change Question:
Who, from amongst or around us, will show the way and what qualities and capabilities will be required of them?
DEVELOP CHANGE LEADERS
- 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
BENEFIT IF USED
- 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
RISK 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
SUPPORT CHANGE LEADERS
- 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
BENEFIT IF USED
- Develop individual change leader confidence
- Increase change leader ability to inspire stakeholder commitment to change
- Increased speed of adoption, change program benefits and ROI
RISK 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
