Change Management Models - Kotter’s 8 step change management
model
Create climate for change
Step 1. Create urgency - Create awareness on the need for organizational adaption towards the change. Changes are only successful if the whole organization wants it.
Step 2. Create guiding coalition - Assemble an effective team of leaders committed towards realizing a change. Organize the team and hand over responsibilities to them. Make them feel that they are important to the organization.
Step
3. Develop a vision and strategy – Develop a clear strategy in
transforming a vision in to reality. Having a vision in change management
process is a must and team members got to know that, what are the changes doing
and why they are working on the change initiatives.
Engage and Enable whole organization
Step 4. Communicate the vision – Confirm acceptance and understanding changes. Successfully communicate the strategic vision to employees, gaining support while reducing resistance.
Step 5. Enable action – Eliminate barriers that impede transformation and empower employees to participate.
Step 6. Generate short-term wins – Ensure progress of the strategy has short-term visible improvements. Quick wins are the best way to keep momentum going. By quick wins, team will have a great satisfaction and the company will immediately see the advantages of change initiative.
Implement and sustain change
Step 7. Sustain acceleration – Combine gains and implement advanced changes.
Step 8. Institute change – Anchor these changes in the organizational culture for sustainable benefits.
Kotter’s model defines the needs for effective communication with employees at every stage in the process and limitation of the model include the lack of input from employees when developing a vision.
References
Perkins, S. and Arvinen-Muondo, R. 2013. Organizational behaviour.People, Process Work and Human Resource Management.. 1st ed. London: Kogan Page.
Kotter’s eight-step change model stands as a prominent exemplar in the change management literature.
ReplyDeleteThe model offers a process to successfully manage change and avoid the common pitfalls that beset failed change programs (Kavanagh and Thite 2009, 183).
The 8-Step Change Model, developed by John Kotter, is a widely used paradigm for effectively executing organizational change in a variety of sectors. It was first mentioned in his book "Leading Change," which was based on years of study that found just a 30% possibility of successful organizational change implementation.
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