“Leadership involvement in organisational change or transformation can be measured on a spectrum from energised and passionate involvement through to abdication”
👏 Happy Friday!
On this day, October 7, 1952, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia was born in St. Petersburg. Coincidentally, on October 6, 1961, President Kennedy urged Americans to build bomb shelters to protect them from the biological effects of radiation in the event of a nuclear argument with the Soviet Union. Kennedy also assured the public that the U.S. civil defence programme would soon begin providing protection for every American. A year later, Kennedy’s worries became reality, and the world hovered on the brink of full-scale nuclear war when the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted over the USSR’s placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba. Food for thought.
✅ John F. Kennedy told us, “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.” How many times have we seen comfortable inaction from organisational leaders during the implementation of change, transformation, or improvement initiatives? Energised and passionate leadership of change.
👉 We see three typical standpoints from leaders during change implementation:
Effective and Proactive:
· Articulating a compelling change vision that inspire employees
· Modelling the new way of working and behaving
· Intervening respectfully to ensure sustainable change
Indifferent Delegator:
· Delegates change leadership responsibility to a direct report
· Appears to be supporting the change programme
· Remains fully focused on normal day-to-day operations
Silo Focused:
· More loyalty to a specific group/department
· Does not share critical resources with the change team
· Lost sight of the overarching goal of organisational success
Unfortunately, only one standpoint ensures change implementation success, maximises employee adoption, provides the targeted return on investment (ROI), benefits realisation, and sustainable change. Successful change needs effective and proactive change leadership, leaders who are indifferent delegators or silo focused must be aligned or change implementation will fail.
Have a fantastic weekend with the ones you love, enjoy some fresh air, exercise, eat, drink and be happy!
Further Reading: Change Management Leadership – Leadership of Change Volume 4
See: Section 3.2 Model - Execute Phase
Peter consults, speaks, and writes on the Leadership of Change®.
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Peter F Gallagher is a Change Management Global Thought Leader, Guru, Expert, International Speaker, Author and Leadership Alignment Coach.
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Change Management Handbook - Leadership of Change® Volume 3, listed among the 50 Business and Technology Books from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders to read in 2021.
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