Emergent Change

Planned Change & Emergent Change…these are the two types of business change Linda Gregorio described when she presented to the Centre For Family Business last Friday morning. www.cffb.ca

 

[ Linda can be reached by email. ]

 

Here are some of the notes I took as Linda summarized Emergent Change.

 

Emergent Change is happening in your workplace when you can spot:

• A business-literate work force where people have role knowledge
  • People get the context for Change
  • People understand how Change meshes with Corporate Vision

• A work force that has permission to act
  • Not managers swooping down on people like seagulls

• A work force that will challenge the status quo

• ‘Leaderness’ that encourages a ‘readiness to change’ culture

So, whether or not change happens successfully at your organization depends on your business culture. Put another way…you have the ability to influence that culture. As a leader, or an aspiring leader, you have an obligation to work at creating a business culture that encourages ‘readiness to change’.

 

Here is a sample of the process I am thinking about to encourage a proper business culture, including ‘readiness to change’.

 

I call the process V-C-C-V.

 

 

Values: the leader’s personal Values

 

Culture: the sum of the leader’s Values and the Values of everyone at the organization

 

Communication: the leader must share his/her Values…repeatedly

 

Value: then, all parties - employees, clients, shareholders, suppliers, etc – will receive Value