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By removing barriers such as inefficient processes and archaic norms, leaders provide the freedom necessary for employees to work across boundaries and create real impact.

Large-scale change can only occur when very significant numbers of employees amass under a common opportunity and drive in the same direction. Kotter explains that “history has demonstrated that it is possible to find many change agents … but only if people are given a choice, and feel they truly have permission to step forward and act.” You m…Read more

“You can’t appeal to people with data and facts alone. You must also account for how people feel. If you can provide greater meaning and purpose to their efforts, amazing things are possible.”

Dr. Kotter defines strategic initiatives as targeted and coordinated activities that, if designed and executed fast enough and well enough, will make your vision a reality. Characteristics of a terrific strategic vision: Communicable, Desirable, Creates a Verbal Picture, Flexible, Feasible, Imaginable, Simple

The Guiding Coalition is, in many ways, the nerve center of Kotter’s 8-Step Process. It can take many shapes, but must consist of members from multiple layers of the hierarchy, represent many functions, receive information about the organization at all levels and ranks, and synthesize that information into new ways of working. Without a Guiding…Read more

Top leaders must describe an opportunity that will appeal to individual’s heads + hearts: Building urgency is all about concentrating on a window of opportunity that is open today but may close tomorrow. Such an opportunity brings people together, aligning them around a
commonality, and clarifying where energy should be directed.

Despite recent gains in the use of modern contraceptives around the world, many women are still dissatisfied with their family planning methods and discontinuation remains high. In collaboration with health workers, postpartum women, implementers, and policymakers in Malawi, Breakthrough ACTION used behavioral design to develop a package of…Read more

This week, we are going to change our attention from Kotter’s 4 principles to his 8 steps or accelerators for successful change management, which include:
1. Create a sense of urgency
2. Build a guiding coalition
3. Form a strategic vision and initiatives
4. Enlist a volunteer army
5. Enable action by removing barriers
6. Generate short-term…Read more

Join the PATH-JSI DMPA-SC Access Collaborative’s Learning and Action Network (LAN) for a knowledge-sharing webinar on May 19 at 9am EDT to learn from successful DMPA-SC Scale-up COF grantees, representing the Society for Family Health, Pathfinder International, Marie Stopes and Jhpiego, about its impact on their work and key lessons learned. T…Read more

And, finally, Change Principle 4: “Have To” + “Want To” – Those who feel included in a meaningful opportunity will help create change in addition to their normal responsibilities. Existing ream members can provide the energy…if you invite them.

Change Principle 3: Head + Heart – Most people aren’t inspired by logic alone, but rather by the fundamental desire to contribute to a larger case. If you can give greater meaning and purpose to your effort, extraordinary results are possible.