Nerdy
Tag: Leadership
For directors, VPs, and executives leading change: vision, communication, strategy, and the moves that make transformation stick.
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A concrete picture of the future state that aligns people around why change is necessary and what success looks like.
Deliberately carving out time and capacity for people to adopt new practices and form new habits during organizational change.
A network of people with enough authority, credibility, and energy to drive organizational change forward.
Treating strategies as hypotheses that are tested, measured, and refined in cycles rather than defined once and executed.
Our light organizational hierarchy model that we use to target groups by decisions,
When making an ambitious change, a leader's goto move should be to overcommunicate the vision, purpose, and stakes of the change.
John Shook found the way to change culture is to change behavior, through doing. When we do this, mindsets and new cultural norms will emerge much quicker.
Change efforts keep stalling because leadership isn't aligned on what change looks like.
Why the best leaders repeat themselves relentlessly and how to communicate with intention.
How perpetual urgency sabotages strategic work and what to do about it.
Richard Rumelt's framework for strategy as diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent action.
John Kotter's eight-step model for organizational transformation and the importance of vision, urgency, and coalition.
AI prompt that scores a draft change vision against seven dimensions including a "So What?!" test.
A decision-rights framework that clarifies who recommends, agrees, performs, provides input, and decides.
An activity for categorizing stakeholders by their relationship to a change and analyzing what they gain and sacrifice.
A planning exercise for segmenting audiences and crafting tailored change messages that land with each group.
Agility is a measure of a system's ability to respond to and leverage change. This workshop introduces leaders to essential tools in designing a process that will allow for this goal.
An immersive workshop that helps leaders align on a shared change vision, develop iterative strategies, and build a communications plan for enrolling people in transformation.