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Creating change
Disciplines > Change Management > Creating change
These are techniques for creating change in any organization. Here is an alphabetic list of some of the methods you can use.
- Boiling the frog: Incremental changes may well not be noticed.
- Burning bridges: Ensure there is no way back.
- Burning platform: Expose or create a crisis to get things going.
- Challenge: Inspire them to achieve remarkable things.
- Coaching: Psychological support for executives.
- Command: Tell them what to do.
- Destabilizing: Shake people of their comfort zone.
- Evidence for change: Cold, hard data to show need for change.
- Evidence stream: Show them time and again that the change is happening.
- Education: Learn them to change.
- Facilitation: Use a facilitator to guide team meetings.
- First steps: Make it easy to get going.
- Golden handcuffs: Keep key people with delayed rewards.
- Institutionalization: Building change into the formal systems and structures.
- Involvement: Give them an important role.
- Management by Objectives (MBO): Tell people what to do, but not how.
- Management causality mapping: Helping a team see its own role.
- Open Space: People talking about what interests them.
- Rationalization trap: Get them into action first.
- Re-education: Train the people you have in new knowledge/skills.
- Restructuring: Redesign the organization to force behavior change.
- Reward alignment: Align rewards with desired behaviors.
- Rites of passage: Use formal rituals to confirm change.
- Setting goals: Give them a formal objective.
- Shift-and-sync: Change a bit then pause to restabilize.
- Socializing: Build it into the social fabric.
- Spill-and-fill: Incremental movement to a new organization.
- Stepwise change: Breaking things down into smaller packages.
- Visioning: Create a motivating view of the future.
- Whole-system Planning: Everyone planning together.
These are also available, sorted by Lewin's freeze phases, as:
- Unfreezing techniques to get them going.
- Transitioning techniques to get them to the right place.
- Refreezing techniques to keep them there.
See also
Creating a Positive Culture, Creative methods, Conversion techniques, Objection-handling, Sequential requests