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Driving Change, Impact, and Growth in your Organization

About this episode:

How can we drive impact throughout the organization, and have it stick?

Yes, traditional change management has its place, but in this session, we will go beyond, and explore a number of additional concepts:

• The impact and role of a multi-modal approach to change management: Communication/Coaching/Training/Monthly reinforcement/Events/etc.

• Internal vs external execution: When to use – and not use – external resources.

• Getting to neutral vs getting ahead: Using change management to drive competitive differentiation, impact, and growth.

Part 1

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Questions Raised

• When it comes to affecting change in our organization, where should we begin? (0:56)

• How can leaders reduce the risk of unsuccessful initiatives? (4:10)

• What would be the top 3 reasons why organizations fail in their change attempts? (6:42)

• How does change management happen in an association where the players are members, and not employees that have to answer to “the boss”? (14:14)

• "People don't resist change, they resist being changed" (16:20)

• What's the best way to maintain change? (17:11)

• How can you help in making sure that the change is being taken seriously? (0:10)

• How does change management happen in an association where the players are members, and not employees that have to answer to “the boss”? (2:48)

• Is it possible to make changes with the staff, and those changes trickle down to the members and volunteers? (6:08)

• How do you prioritize incremental change vs wide-scale change? (8:04)

• When and how do you communicate the change? (13:48)

• Can you speak to prioritize change vs what sounds really squeeze but ought to be ignored? (19:28)

• What's the timing and method in introducing change to your team? (2:56)

• Can you talk to me about organizational hierarchy and how hierarchy affects change within an organization? (7:00)

• How do we ensure we have a management team that is used to change and has clear vision of the future? (10:15)

• How can partners set up their working relationships and responsibilities to avoid conflict when it come to decision making and role out of change within an organization? (13:58)

• What would be appropriate incentives to keep people focused on the prize of reaching the organizational goal? (18:55)