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Leading Lasting Change

November 21, 2011Sage GeneralSage Advice

High impact and lasting change can be fast, effective and fun. First–Create a “vision story” for the future to engage a critical mass of people. It taps into multiple levels of knowledge-emotion-creativity and yields a shared sense of the future that is aspirational, inspirational, logical and exciting.

Then, charter a small, carefully chosen client team to design and conduct a process to gather information and knowledge and to make sense of the issues and conditions at hand. They will translate this learning and insight into potential strategies. The team then delivers events that spread their learning to others in the organization utilizing highly engaging educational and work shop activities.

Finally, teams implement waves of short-duration (60-90 days), high impact projects that move the organization toward the vision. This offers opportunities to bring others into the expanding process of building the future. Recognizable and measurable success in projects yields progress, energy and enthusiasm. These factors combine to yield change that has impact and lasts.