leadership

There is a statement that we regularly hear about the role that change managers play in projects.  It usually starts off something like this:

As change agents we often find ourselves in leadership positions on projects where we do not have direct management over people.

Demonstrating leadership competency across cultural boundaries is no easy task.  Hundreds and often times thousands of years of cultural nuances have impacted the way each civilization operates.  Nuggets of wisdom, passed from generation-to-generation come together to form the slowly evolving backbone of a society. 

Renowned academic, author and speaker Dr. John Kotter summarizes successful change in 8 basic steps.  His model is a great starting point for developing organizational change strategy for organizations.  Here is a quick summary to keep in mind as you develop your organizational change strategy: