The Dry Bones Project

Week 5 — Leading Into the Future

Personal Innovation (Oster and Scripture)

Speaker Notes:
• Take a few minutes to identify one area of complacency in your organization.
• Look for places where people have become comfortable or where urgency is missing.
• Next, identify one dominant design that has become outdated.
• Dominant designs create stability but also stagnation.
• Follow up questions:
• What signals tell you complacency is present.
• How is complacency affecting performance or creativity.
• What would happen if the dominant design became obsolete.
• Who benefits from keeping things the same and who is held back.
• What small action could begin to challenge this pattern.

Speaker Notes:
• Take a few minutes to outline a real change initiative using Kotter’s model.
• Define your urgency message.
• Identify your guiding coalition.
• Craft a five minute vision.
• Choose your first short term win.
• Decide how you will anchor the change in culture.
• Follow up questions:
• Is your urgency message compelling enough to motivate others.
• Does your coalition include people with real influence.
• Can your vision be communicated simply and consistently.
• What short term win would create visible momentum.
• What cultural behaviors must change for this initiative to last.
• What obstacles do you anticipate and how will you remove them.

CTA: Think Differently. Lead Courageously. Innovate Continuously. Renew Daily.

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