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101 Leadership Actions for Managing Change in the 21st Century

by Ollie Malone JR., PH.D., MIN.

January 2011

Intermediate to advanced

140 pages

1h 15m

English

HRD Press

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1 Commit to Managing Yourself2 Take a Stroll Down “Memory Lane”3 Create Your STAR Criteria4 Audit Your STAR Performance5 Ask Others to Audit Your STAR Performance6 Determine the Critical Focus for Your Leadership Efforts7 Actively Learn from Other Change Leaders8 Understand Your Resistance to Change9 Understand Others’ Resistance to Change10 Understand Your Resistance to Others’ Resistance11 Engage the Resistance Responsibly12 Keep Yourself in View13 Know That You’ll See This Movie Again
14 Cast the Vision— Meaning #115 Cast the Vision— Meaning #216 Cast the Vision— Meaning #317 Ensure That Your Vision Includes Others18 Invite Others to Enlist in the Achievement of the Vision19 Encourage Others to Own the Vision20 Create a Skeletal Plan21 Set Milestones for Significant Accomplishments22 Create Supporting Technical Mechanisms for Plan Achievement23 Create Supporting Interpersonal Mechanisms for Plan Achievement with Those Above You24 Create Supporting Interpersonal Mechanisms for Plan Achievement for Those Beside You25 Create Supporting Interpersonal Mechanisms for Plan Achievement for Those Below You26 Create Supporting Interpersonal Mechanisms for Plan Achievement for Those Diagonal to You27 Accept No Idle Players28 Review Individual Accountabilities29 Update Individual Accountabilities30 Jointly and Aggressively Set WIGS and WAGS31 Jointly and Aggressively Set WIGS and WAGS
32 Know Your Industry33 Watch Your Industry Patterns34 Train Your Staff to Observe the Trends35 Join a Professional Community36 Actively Address Industry Trends37 Play “What If” Games38 Build Full-Fledged Scenarios39 Create an Established Approach to Change40 Train Your Team on Your Established Approach to Change41 Apply Your Approach to Change to Small, Insignificant Changes42 Capture Multi-Level Learning from Your Trial Run43 Make Change the Norm44 Identify the Change Leaders in Your Organization45 Increase the Capacity of Those Change Leaders46 Put “Change” on the Agenda47 Talk About Change as the Norm
48 Think Like an Olympic Coach—with No Athletes49 Sell a Personal Change50 Listen as People Tune in to WII-FM51 Be a Good Marketer52 Increase Active Participation in Change53 Retire the Analysts54 Build Change All-Stars55 Cross-Train56 Stack Critical Skills Deeply57 Build a Self-Coaching Team58 Give Your Injured Players a Role59 Get Everyone Suited Up60 Succeed with a Positive Mental Attitude61 Monitor Mental Attitude Patterns on Your Team62 Coach for Emotional Intelligence63 Measure Emotional Intelligence64 Measure Your Own Emotional Intelligence65 Create a Game Plan to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence

66 Understand the Depth of the Challenge67 Create Metaphors of What Is68 Create Metaphors of What Is To Be69 Compare the Past to the Future70 Draw Pictures71 Pick a Theme Song72 Develop a Cheer73 Eat74 Tell Stories75 Get a Life76 Find a Common Enemy77 Fight Together78 Breathe79 Commit to Win!
80 Manage Confidentiality81 Deal with Blabbermouths82 Develop “Safe” Phrases83 Tell the Truth84 Tell YOUR Truth85 Talk About What You Want86 Talk a Lot87 Talk Some More88 Ask Questions
89 Pack Up Your Hammock90 Chop Down Your Magnolia Tree91 Let Go—Quickly92 Trust93 Manage the Technology94 Smile95 Laugh a Little (or a Lot!)96 Find a New Wrinkle97 Keep Talking98 Change Shoes99 Never Stop Recruiting100 Pass It On
101 Welcome the Presence of Technology102 Identify Technology Partners103 Adopt an Area of Technology104 Return to Action 103…

Overview

101 Leadership Actions for Managing Change in the 21st Century is meant to be read with the intention of doing. You'll gain proven ideas and techniques to help you manage your own tasks, lead others, mentally prepare for what's ahead, get your entire organization engaged in change, create a change army of dedicated professionals, keep people in the know with regular communication, develop the adaptability that constant change requires, and overcome and navigate the changes associated with technology.