Organisation Change Leadership Standpoints

Jun07

Does your sponsor and change team intervene to ensure all the organisation's leaders are effective and proactive?

Leadership involvement in organisation change or transformation can be measured on a spectrum from energised and passionate involvement through to abdication. Three typical standpoints are:

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

“Organisational change leadership is about effectively and proactively articulating the vision, modelling the new way and intervening 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

“The change leader cannot be indifferent delegator, they can delegate authority, but they cannot delegate responsibility, if they do, change implementation will fail”

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

“Change implementation cannot afford the luxury of organisation silos, the leaders that create them or the behaviour that tolerates them”

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”

This blog is based on my book: Change Management Leadership - Leadership of Change^® Volume 4

Blog Source: https://www.peterfgallagher.com/single-post/does-your-leadership-team-exhibit-these-three-change-leader-responsibilities-1

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