Leadership in Change: From one stable state to the next (#6)

“Show up. Keep up. Shut up.” (Change agent’s creed, borrowed from golf pro caddy creed) - Stephan Neck

Mark Richards, Ali Hajou, and Niko Kaintantzis join Stephan Neck in this ‘reprise’ episode with Leading Change from the Lean-Agile Leadership competency.

We start by sharing our passions: Mark’s thoughts about the beauty and perils of change roadmaps, Ali’s explanation of why checklists are a good treat for anxious people, and Niko’s emphasis on necessary visions as a base for new behavior for change success.

In the first part, we reflect on how change agents/leaders apply the Implementation roadmap. The pros of a “checklist” of a logical sequential set of steps help overcome change anxiety, but it also has its perils, forgetting that the transformation is an iterative journey. A transformation vision helps as a crystallization point to stay focused.

The second part sparked a discussion around “leading the transformation rather than just supporting it”—significant change requires engagement and high interest by senior management as early adopters to generate change in the early and late majority of the people in the respective context. Our goal: building networks of influence.

The final part dealt with the attitude of SPCs/change agents: Make other people successful - we should leverage our change knowledge to support and enhance the effectiveness of leaders in leading the change.

Cast:

Stephan Neck(Moderator)

Niko Kaintantzis

Ali Hajou

Mark Richards