Although every major change effort has a sponsor, not many sponsors fully understand the role, how to set up the effort for success, and provide clear guidance from start to completion. When consulting to sponsors, there are ten extremely important questions that can have them thinking more strategically, engaging more fully, and providing the kind of leadership their initiatives require. Come hear about these questions and consider the implications for getting your sponsor to embrace what their efforts need from them. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

All projects address designing the solution for the future state. However, most set up a Design Team or use consultants primarily of content experts to come up with their best recommendation. However, recall: “Having the solution is not the solution”! The design process directly impacts your ability to get the solution adopted and sustained. Content expertise, while essential, is not sufficient, especially if your project is transformational. To consciously address scope and design, we need to also clarify mindset, culture and stakeholder behavior, all required for a complete picture of how the new state needs to function. The episode discusses the importance of these competencies as well as expansion of the design process to ensure the best solution is generated and can be adopted and sustained. How do you address design and is it working for you? To watch the full video version of this podcast, please visit AskDrChange.com (http://AskDrChange.com).  Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Using the ten most common mistakes as an assessment of your organization’s current reality in leading change is a powerful way to identify the costliest of the mistakes. Only then can leaders and internal change support resources look at how the mistakes come to happen and options for how to reduce their negative impact or avoid them completely. This episode takes each mistake and outlines several actions you might take to reduce or mitigate them. Leaders becoming aware of the mistakes and your organization’s rating against them can serve as a springboard to remedying them and up-leveling how your organization leads change and produces desired results. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Over 45 years of observing organizations undergoing major change, we have identified ten of the most common mistakes leaders make, and often repeat, to the detriment of their desired outcomes. This episode outlines these mistakes and discusses some of the underlying causes of them. It makes the case that most organizations can benefit from objectively assessing how they lead change against these mistakes and how they might need to uplevel their approach to supporting all major initiatives to succeed. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

While leading major change efforts is happening in all organizations, the effectiveness given the multitude of ways it is led produces vastly different results. This episode outlines making change a strategic discipline, much like Finance, Human Resources and IT. Change is not going away and it deserves strategic oversight to ensure all change is done in the most effective and efficient way. This is a major paradigm shift for leaders and all in-house change resources! We present and discuss five strategic disciplines for change and how each can support the organization to dramatically uplevel its methods and oversight of all major changes. This is enterprise level change at its highest! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Joe Rafter has spent his career achieving results in a vast array of organizations and specializing the Change Leadership. In one chapter of his career, he stood up an Enterprise Change Management function at Pacific Gas and Electric. He is an advocate for leadership and personal self-awareness, modeling effective culture, and pursing true adoption in change. As the self-proclaimed “greatest advocate for football in America”, Joe has launched one of his most meaningful transformations, the National Football Alliance. He shares his vision for this new non-profit and his transformational strategy for setting it up. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Donna Brighton brings decades of experience to the change leadership field as well as self-mastery and continuous learning. She is a founding Board Member and Past-President of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) helping to shape the profession. She empowers leaders and teams to unlock their full potential, consistently driving higher levels of performance and breakthrough outcomes. Donna is filled with tips and insights about how to lead your best life and do your most impactful work. Her perspectives on leadership and change are both rich with meaning and delightful! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In Part II of Linda’s overview of organizational energy dynamics, she builds on doing an Energy Scan to identify and assess current energy dynamics in the organization undergoing change and explores strategies to mitigate or strengthen each of the five elements of energy on behalf of realigning them to produce your desired outcomes from change. She discusses ways to influence energy sources, channels, fields, environmental forces, and patterns, plus recommends conditions to support the positive flow of people’s energy in the direction of producing aspired results. While organizational energy is a non-traditional approach to leading change, understanding it and mastering its strategies are powerful skills to have in your change leadership repertoire. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Linda shares this powerful, non-traditional approach to assessing the ability of an organization to achieve results from change---through understanding and influencing the organization’s energy dynamics. Linda describes organizational energy as the fuel to make change happen and outlines five elements of energy dynamics that exist in every organization. These elements can be identified, evaluated as for or against your change outcomes, and influenced to enable the flow of people’s energy to manifest in results. Come learn about this alternative way of seeing what is supporting or hindering your efforts to succeed at change. It’s grounded, proven and very real. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Jake Jacobs has been around the change block many times over. One of his greatest contributions in the field of Large-Scale Change Interventions is Real-Time Strategic Change. Jake shares with Linda hs history, current work focus, and advice on the next edge of the Change field for both leaders and consultants. Come meet the man and hear his insights!   To watch the full video version of this podcast, please visit AskDrChange.com (http://AskDrChange.com). Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.