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#24 Six Common Failures We Make When Leading Change The 3x5 Leadership Podcast
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Welcome to the 3x5 Leadership Podcast where we champion intentional leaders who create significant impacts. This show offers simple, practical strategies to help you live, lead, and learn more intentionally. You can listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify!
Leaders change and make change. If we are in the business of making people and organizations better, that requires change. But change is hard. It’s messy. It feels like a constant uphill battle against resistance. So, leaders need to use a structured, prepared, and well-developed change plan. But even when we do, we still make common failures.
So, let’s explore common failures we make when trying to lead change. In doing so, we hope that we can equip you and your team to better avoid them in the future.
Six common failures we discuss in this episode include:
Not establishing and communicating a compelling need for change.
We don’t communicate the change vision nearly enough.
Failing to enable others by removing big obstacles.
Don’t build a guiding coalition.
We don’t anchor the change for long-term impact.
We are unable to be patient, unwilling to take a long-view, and fail to recognize that change takes a long time.
We hope this episode brings important awareness to these failures, so you avoid them and don’t learn the hard way (like we so often have). If you find the episode helpful, we encourage you to share it with a friend, colleague, or teammate to let them learn and grow as well. But thanks for listening and we hope it guides you to lead more intentionally this week.
Related Episodes & Resources
Interested in learning more? Check out these related 3x5 Leadership podcast episodes.
#20 How to Get People to Care.
#19 Delegate Better.
#14 Ten Lessons in Developing Culture.
Things We Reference in the Episode
Leading Change, by John Kotter.
Summary reference of Kotter’s 8 Steps for organizational change.
Discover More
Like and Review the Show! If you found this episode valuable, we invite you to give the show a like and review. It builds our credibility, helping others discover the show and know it’s worth their time.
Subscribe to 3x5 Leadership. When you do, you’ll get our free, weekly insights sent straight to your inbox to make your inbox a bit more intentional with leader development resources. Subscribe and learn more at 3x5 Leadership. You will also get an immediate copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders.
Become a Patron. Consider joining our Patreon Community to get even more insight from the 3x5 Leadership team like weekly leadership tips that you can put into action immediately. Learn more about the Community and join at our Patreon page.
Until next episode, friends, take care and lead well.
Welcome to the 3x5 Leadership Podcast where we champion intentional leaders who create significant impacts. This show offers simple, practical strategies to help you live, lead, and learn more intentionally. You can listen to the episode on Apple, Google, or Spotify!
Leaders change and make change. If we are in the business of making people and organizations better, that requires change. But change is hard. It’s messy. It feels like a constant uphill battle against resistance. So, leaders need to use a structured, prepared, and well-developed change plan. But even when we do, we still make common failures.
So, let’s explore common failures we make when trying to lead change. In doing so, we hope that we can equip you and your team to better avoid them in the future.
Six common failures we discuss in this episode include:
Not establishing and communicating a compelling need for change.
We don’t communicate the change vision nearly enough.
Failing to enable others by removing big obstacles.
Don’t build a guiding coalition.
We don’t anchor the change for long-term impact.
We are unable to be patient, unwilling to take a long-view, and fail to recognize that change takes a long time.
We hope this episode brings important awareness to these failures, so you avoid them and don’t learn the hard way (like we so often have). If you find the episode helpful, we encourage you to share it with a friend, colleague, or teammate to let them learn and grow as well. But thanks for listening and we hope it guides you to lead more intentionally this week.
Related Episodes & Resources
Interested in learning more? Check out these related 3x5 Leadership podcast episodes.
#20 How to Get People to Care.
#19 Delegate Better.
#14 Ten Lessons in Developing Culture.
Things We Reference in the Episode
Leading Change, by John Kotter.
Summary reference of Kotter’s 8 Steps for organizational change.
Discover More
Like and Review the Show! If you found this episode valuable, we invite you to give the show a like and review. It builds our credibility, helping others discover the show and know it’s worth their time.
Subscribe to 3x5 Leadership. When you do, you’ll get our free, weekly insights sent straight to your inbox to make your inbox a bit more intentional with leader development resources. Subscribe and learn more at 3x5 Leadership. You will also get an immediate copy of our free guide, The 10 Habits of Intentional Leaders.
Become a Patron. Consider joining our Patreon Community to get even more insight from the 3x5 Leadership team like weekly leadership tips that you can put into action immediately. Learn more about the Community and join at our Patreon page.
Until next episode, friends, take care and lead well.
22 min