Leading Organizational Change Towards My Innovation Plan: Blended Learning in Waves
If I really want to have a chance at implementing change with my Innovation Plan, I need to have strategies in place to ensure that I am ready for the challenge. Although change is not an easy feat, I hope to use both the heart and minds, define behaviors that lead to results, and execute strategic plans while having nonthreatening discussions to ease anxiety. Resistance is inevitable with great changes, but I have plans in place to fully implement and execute my Innovation Plan: Blended Learning in Waves.
Click the links to view strategies for influencing change in my organization:
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Deep Down in the Heart of What, How, & Why? |
Speaking From the Urgent Heart |
Read more in my blog post Start With Why.
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Blended learning has the chance to reinvent the futures of so many students. In the educational world, students' learning has been cheaply reduced to a "one size fits all" approach. However, students long for a more personalized learning path. The time is now to integrate blended learning for a more personalized learning path. Our students need an educational environment that focuses on their learning as more personal.
If students are allowed more creative freedom in choosing and experiencing their own personalized learning path, they will be more likely to grow passionate about the learning process. I believe that students will face better success in their education if they are inspired to discover and explore their own learning path.
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Defining Results and Vital Behaviors
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In leading organizational change, it is important to use the following key strategies in identifying the vital behaviors needed to get the results you want: notice the obvious, look for crucial moments, learn from positive deviants, and spot culture busters (Grenny, et al.). It is important to also identify how you will measure the vital behaviors and who the influencers will be.
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Six Sources of Influence
Influencers are eager to identify the result of their organizational change is and the necessary vital behaviors associated with completing that feat. I have identified Six Sources of Influence in response to my Innovation Plan: Blended Learning in Waves. My strategy is to target both motivation and ability at the personal, social, and structural level. Grenny, et al. (2013) suggests that all six sources are preferred in creating organizational change; however, those who use four or more sources of influence will be ten times more successful at gaining that substantial change. Read more about my take on influencing behavioral change on my blog posts, Common Sense is not your Compass and Ready, Set, Influence!
Read about how to influence organizational change in the book Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change. |
4 Disciplines of Execution
Read more in my blog post My Whirlwind is a Never-Ending Hurricane Season.
Crucial Conversations Perspective & Self-Differentiated Leadership
For another perspective of Self-Differentiated Leadership under pressure, visit my blog post:
If you're not anxious, it's probably because you're not alive.
If you're not anxious, it's probably because you're not alive.
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Resources List:
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FranklinCovey. (2012, April 19). Executive overview of the 4 disciplines of execution [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZR2Ixm0QQE
Friedman, E. H., Treadwell, M. M., & Beal, E. W. (2017). A failure of nerve: Leadership in the age of the quick fix. New York: Church Publishing.
Grenny, J., Maxfield, D., & Shimberg, A. (2013). How to 10x your influence (Report)
Grenny, J., Patterson, K., Maxfield, D., McMillan, R., & Switzler, A. (2013). Influencer: The new science of leading change. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Kotter, J. [Dr. John Kotter]. (2013, August 15). Leading change: Establish a sense of urgency [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yfrj2Y9IlI
McChesney, C., Covey, S., & Huling, J. (2012). The 4 disciplines of execution: Achieving your wildly important goals. New York, NY: Free Press.
Patterson, K. (2002). Crucial conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Sinek, S. [TEDx Talks]. (2009, September 28). Start with why: How great leaders inspire action [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA&t=164s
Camp, J. [Mathew David Bardwell]. (2010, November 10). Friedman's theory of differentiated leadership made simple [Video file]. Retrieved fromttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgdcljNV-Ew&feature=youtu.be
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[Digital Image.] Retrieved from https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1344663553l/15058855.jpg
FranklinCovey. (2012, April 19). Executive overview of the 4 disciplines of execution [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZR2Ixm0QQE
Friedman, E. H., Treadwell, M. M., & Beal, E. W. (2017). A failure of nerve: Leadership in the age of the quick fix. New York: Church Publishing.
Grenny, J., Maxfield, D., & Shimberg, A. (2013). How to 10x your influence (Report)
Grenny, J., Patterson, K., Maxfield, D., McMillan, R., & Switzler, A. (2013). Influencer: The new science of leading change. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Kotter, J. [Dr. John Kotter]. (2013, August 15). Leading change: Establish a sense of urgency [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yfrj2Y9IlI
McChesney, C., Covey, S., & Huling, J. (2012). The 4 disciplines of execution: Achieving your wildly important goals. New York, NY: Free Press.
Patterson, K. (2002). Crucial conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Sinek, S. [TEDx Talks]. (2009, September 28). Start with why: How great leaders inspire action [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA&t=164s