Leading change:
Creating a sense of urgency

 

Rapid market changes require rapid response. Why is urgency important to a change effort? Urgency is important because meaningful organizational change cannot occur without the cooperation of the affected stakeholders. This is why creating a sense of urgency for a needed change is the first step leaders must take to gain the cooperation of management and employees.

Leaders create a sense of urgency by both selling the value of a future state to organizational stakeholders and making the status quo a dangerous place for the stakeholders to remain.  In effect, senior leaders create a compelling narrative that tells stakeholders why it is not in their best interest for the organization to stay in its current state.

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Learn the steps for guiding an organization through accelerated change, embracing the need for urgency, and developing agility skills.

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Objectives:

• Understand the pace of change and how it impacts your industry

• Discover why a sense of urgency is needed and how to create it

• Explore your self-assessment and determine steps to take to create a sense of urgency

• Determine where your company needs to create a sense of urgency

 

Outcomes:

• Clarity on the changes impacting your industry

• Tools and methodologies for creating a sense of urgency

• Know you own sense of urgency and where you might need to focus to improve

• Clarity on how sense of urgency is displayed in your organization.