Change Management

In this category of posts, find the Kotter-Lewin combined change management model with its 3 phases and 8 steps. Learn about social influence to support change. Understand how the posture of the agile coach needs to adapt to the transformation context.
What is change management? What are the phases for an effective change?
Check out the 3 phases and 8 steps of change management inspired from John Kotter and Kurt Lewin for an effective transformation! Understand the key success factors in change. Dig out the 3 phases, unfreeze, change and refreeze combined with the 8 steps, build sense of urgency, guiding coalition, vision then share the vision, impulse change, market quick wins, accelerate change, anchor change and build continuous improvement.
What is influence? What is the difference with manipulation?
Review how social influence is different from psychological manipulation! Dig out the influence model with its 5 dimensions: Purpose, Mastery, Autonomy, Social and Organizational Reinforcement. This influence model is inspired from Dan Pink‘s motivation factors and the book the influencer from Joseph Grenny.
What is an agile coach? What are the differences with a consultant?
Explore the differences between coach, either agile or enterprise, and consultant! Understand how to make the best of coaching and consulting. Dig out the changes in stance, mindset and competence over a transformation: teacher, mentor, facilitator and finally coach.
What is “Training from the back of the room”?
What are the main principles of “training from the back of the room“? What is a brain-friendly training environment? What are the 4 Cs: Connections, Concepts, Concrete Practice and Conclusions?
A mission statement describes what the company core business is and what it does today. A vision statement explains the ambition of the company and what it wants to achieve in the future. The company values shape the culture and guide employees with decisions, behaviors and actions.
Organizational culture can be defined in three levels: artifacts, the tangible part of the culture like rituals, climate and language, the espoused beliefs and values that is an intangible part but conscious and still partially observable, at last, the basic underlying assumptions that is an intangible part, unconscious and cannot be directly observed.
Open Space Technology (OST) is an approach to organize and run large group working sessions with as initial input a theme. Surely, there is no detailed agenda as participants will start the workshop by defining issues they are eager to work on. Then, the large group will split in sub-groups over the sessions planned for each issue and self-organize to think about them.
The Cognitive Load Theory, created by John Sweller, is both a mental model of how the human mind works when learning and a set of training guidelines to improve teaching.
The world café, invented in 1995 by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, is a large audience workshop organized as a conversation process between small groups. It is based on 7 principles: set the frame, create a safe & comfortable space, explore questions that matter, encourage everyone’s contribution, cross-pollinate & connect ideas, listen together for patterns & insights, and at last, harvest & share collective discoveries.
Find out here the 3 phases and 8 steps of change management inspired from John Kotter and Kurt Lewin for an effective transformation! Understand the key success factors in change. Dig out the 3 phases, unfreeze, change and refreeze combined with the 8 steps, build sense of urgency, guiding coalition, vision then share the vision, impulse change, market quick wins, accelerate change, anchor change and build continuous improvement.
What are the main principles of “training from the back of the room”? What is a brain-friendly training environment? What are the 4 Cs: Connections, Concepts, Concrete Practice and Conclusions?
Find out here the differences between coach, either agile or enterprise, and consultant! Understand how to make the best of coaching and consulting. Dig out the changes in stance, mindset and competence over a transformation: teacher, mentor, facilitator and finally coach.
Find out here how social influence is different from psychological manipulation! Dig out the influence model with its 5 dimensions: Purpose, Mastery, Autonomy, Social and Organizational Reinforcement. This influence model is inspired from Dan Pink’s motivation factors and the book the influencer from Joseph Grenny.
Find here the glossary of the key concepts explained in wind4change.com! You will find definitions about Agile, Craftsmanship, DevOps, Agile at Scale, Innovation, Disruptive Technologies, Coaching, Change Management and much more.