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Change Techniques

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These are techniques for creating change in any organization. Here is an alphabetic list of some of the methods you can use.

Addressing Concerns: So removing objections.
Boiling the Frog: Incremental changes may well not be noticed.
Burning Bridges: Ensure there is no way back.
Burning Platform: Expose or create a crisis to get things going.
Challenge: Inspire them to achieve remarkable things.
Coaching: Psychological support for executives.
Command: Tell them what to do.
Destabilizing: Shake people of their comfort zone.
Evidence for Change: Cold, hard data to show need for change.
Evidence Stream: Show them time and again that the change is happening.
Education: Learn them to change.
Facilitation: Use a facilitator to guide team meetings.
First Steps: Make it easy to get going.
Golden Handcuffs: Keep key people with delayed rewards.
Institutionalization: Building change into the formal systems and structures.
Involvement: Give them an important role.
Management by Objectives (MBO): Tell people what to do, but not how.
Management Causality Mapping: Helping a team see its own role.
Managing Timescales: Control when things happen.
Open Space: People talking about what interests them.
Rationalization Trap: Get them into action first.
Re-education: Train the people you have in new knowledge/skills.
Restructuring: Redesign the organization to force behavior change.
Reward Alignment: Align rewards with desired behaviors.
Rites of Passage: Use formal rituals to confirm change.
Setting Goals: Give them a formal objective.
Shift-and-Sync: Change a bit then pause to restabilize.
Socializing: Build it into the social fabric.
Spill-and-Fill: Incremental movement to a new organization.
Stepwise Change: Breaking things down into smaller packages.
Visioning: Create a motivating view of the future.
Whole-System Planning: Everyone planning together.

These are also available, sorted by Lewin's freeze phases, as:

Unfreezing Techniques to get them going.
Transitioning Techniques to get them to the right place.
Refreezing Techniques to keep them there.

Change Techniques

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