When I give short workshops on managing change, I focus on five key aspects of change planning.
- Identify stakeholders
- Align arguments to generate stakeholder momentum
- Create an engagement strategy
- Identify trigger events
- Plan to be wrong
Prefacing all of this is the step of clearly defining your change.
Here is a a video where I explain trigger events and illustrate it with an example from the story of Branch Rickey’s efforts to desgregate Major League Baseball in the 1940s.
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