Improving business performance through active management
Promentor Services
EIGHT STEPS TO TRANSFORM AN ORGANISATION:
Establishing a sense of urgency
- Examining market and competitive realities
- Identifying and discussing crisis, potential crisis or major opportunities
Forming a powerful, guiding coalition
- Assembling a group with enough power to lead the change effort
- Encouraging the group to work together as a team
Creating a vision
- Create a vision to help direct the change effort
- Developing strategies to achieve that vision
Communicating the vision
- Using every vehicle possible to communicate the new vision and strategy
- Teaching new behaviours by the example of the guiding coalition
Empowering others to act on the vision
- Getting rid of the obstacle of change
- Changing systems or structures that seriously undermine the vision
- Encouraging risk taking and non-traditional ideas, activities and actions
Planning for and creating short term wins
- Planning for visible performance improvements
- Creating those improvements
- Recognising and rewarding employees involved with these improvements
Consolidating improvements and producing still more changes
- Using increased credibility to change systems, structures and policies that don't fit the vision
- Hiring, promoting and developing employees who can implement the vision
- Reinvigorating the process with new projects, themes and change agents
Institutionalising new approaches
- Articulating the connections between the new behaviours and corporate success
- Develop the means to ensure leadership development and succession