John kotter"s 8 Steps Change Model
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John Kotter is a renowned expert in leadership and change management. He was a professor at Harvard Business School and is now Chief Innovation Officer at Kotter International. Kotter authored the international bestseller "Leading Change" which outlined an 8-step process for leading successful organizational transformations. The 8 steps include creating urgency, forming a powerful coalition, creating a vision, communicating the vision, removing obstacles, creating short-term wins, building on the change, and anchoring changes in the corporate culture. Kotter is considered the top leadership expert based on a survey by Business Week magazine in 2001.
John kotter"s 8 Steps Change Model
- 1. John Kotter
- 2. Who is John Kotter? •John Paul Kotter (born 1947) is a former professor at the Harvard Business School, an acclaimed author, and now Chief Innovation Officer at Kotter International. He is regarded as an authority on leadership and change.
- 3. Why John Kotter is one of the founders of leadership change - Kotter is the author of 18 books, and his books are in the top 1% of sales from Amazon.com. - His international bestseller” Leading Change”, outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations. - In 1998, his Matsushita Leadership won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography/autobiography - In October 2001, Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey they conducted of 504 enterprises. - In 1996, "Leading Change" was named the #1 management book of the year by Management General.
- 4. Kotter's 8 steps Change Model Implementing Change Powerfully and Successfully
- 5. Step 1: Create Urgency - Identify potential threats, and develop scenarios showing what could happen in the future. -- Examine opportunities that should be, or could be, exploited. - Start honest discussions, and give dynamic and convincing reasons to get people talking and thinking. - Request support from customers, outside stakeholders and industry people to strengthen your argument.
- 6. Step 2: Form a Powerful Coalition - Identify the true leaders in your organization. - Ask for an emotional commitment from these key people. - Work on team building within your change coalition. - Check your team for weak areas, and ensure that you have a good mix of people from different departments and different levels within your company.
- 7. Step 3: Create a Vision for Change - Determine the values that are central to the change. - Develop a short summary (one or two sentences) that captures what you "see" as the future of your organization. - Create a strategy to execute that vision. - Ensure that your change coalition can describe the vision in five minutes or less. - Practice your "vision speech" often.
- 9. Step 4: Communicate the Vision Use every vehicle possible to communicate the new vision and strategies Teach new behaviors by the example of the guiding coalition
- 10. Step 5: Remove Obstacles - Get rid of obstacles to change - Change systems or structures that seriously undermine the vision -Encourage risk taking and nontraditional ideas, activities, and actions
- 11. Step 6: Create Short term Wins - Plan for visible performance improvements - Creating those improvements - Recognize and reward employees involved in the improvements
- 12. Step 7: Build on the Change - Consolidate Improvements by increased credibility to change systems, structures, and eliminate policies that don't fit the vision. - Hire, promote, and develop employees who can implement the vision - Reinvigorate the process with new projects, themes, and change agents
- 13. Step 8: Anchor the Changes in Corporate Culture - Articulate the connections between the new behaviors and organizational success - Develop the means to ensure leadership development and succession - Foster the changes into the foundation culture
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