1. Vision Plan Implementation
The 8-Stage Process of Creating Major Change
John Kotter
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8-Stages
Establish a Sense of Urgency
Create a Guiding Coalition
Develop a Vision & Strategy
Communicate the Change Vision
Empower Broad-based Action
Generate Short-term Wins
Consolidate Gains & Produce More Change
Anchor New Approaches in the Culture
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3. 1. Establish a sense of Urgency
This is the absolute starting point -- The PPC 2-day workshop of August 2016
Need to appeal to both the intellectual AND the emotional.
Repeatedly screaming at people “Your platform is burning, you are going to die!” does not work.
Threats lose their value.
It results in a demoralized workforce.
Talent leaves as soon as there is a good out.
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AoLP’s Life Cycle
Need to be
Here
We are
Here
IMPACT
TIME
Where would you place AoLP on this graphic?
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5. 2. Create a Guiding Coalition
If you want transformational change, you must create transformational leadership.
If you want transformational leadership, hierarchical-command/control structures will not work.
Good managers, utilizing good policies and practices, can create great results—but they cannot create transformational change.
NB: The Executive Committee plus played this role
Note the use of the term Coalition: if you want transformational leadership, this must represent a broad cross-section of people from all levels of the organization.
people who have their hearts in it
people who will provide leadership
people who will attack barriers
people who will get others on board
If you don’t do this right, it will effect everything else that follows.
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6. 3. Develop a Vision & Strategy
May 27, 2017 was the culmination of almost one year to do that!
Presentation at the AGM on May 30th confirmed it.
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7. Our journey Phase I – Organize the Process
Phase III – Analysis & Recommendations
Phase IV – Strategic Game Plans
Phase II – Environmental Scans
Phase I – Organize the Process
Phase V – Vision Plan & Strategies
Phase VI – Strategy Consultations - Stakeholders

8. 4. Communicate the Change Vision
It’s not likely that you will under-communicate a little bit; you will probably under-communicate 10x to 100x too much. And your initiative, no matter how well planned, will fail.
John Kotter – Communicating a Vision of Change
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9. 5. Empower Broad-Based Action
Initiate changes -- the hierarchy must give way to the network.
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10. Adoption of Innovation
Early
Majority
Late
Majority
Early
adopters
Diffusion of Innovations, Rogers
Laggards
Innovators
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11. 6. Generate Short-Term Wins
Make the wins real and they will be powerful.
If people don’t see results, cynicism will quickly follow.
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12. 7. Consolidate gains & produce more change
Never let up!
You must maintain the urgency.
If you hand your initiative off to a change management “department” or “committee” — you will fail.
Don’t get discouraged, it might require cycling back and trying new things.
Don’t let your “command and control” genes take over.
It’s like tending a fire, you can’t start it and walk away.
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13. 8. Anchor new approaches in the culture
You don’t “change your culture” to create transformation.
It’s the reverse, if you want to create a culture change then go through the other seven steps — then, after success has been created, the outcome will be a change in the culture!
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14. Q&As…
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Additional reading
You can access a blog on this approach at
You can read the book Leading Change by John Kotter
Other summer reading…
Canada’s Catholics, Reginal Bibby & Angus Read
Great Catholic Parishes, William E. Simon Jr.
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