Juxtapositions: Comparing Mild to Wild Success - Irreverently Kerry Plemmons © Kerry.plemmons@du.edu

Agenda Creative Solutions – Brainstorm – 8:00 - 8:45 Purpose/Culture - Putting it all together - 8:45 -10:00 Reflections and Planning – 10:00 -10:15 Commitments – 10:20 – 11:45 Bus – 11:45

Future (success) Internal Factors External Factors Current Reality Theory of Change: Tension on the System Future (success) Internal Factors External Factors Current Reality

The Eight Accelerators Create a Sense of Urgency Build/Maintain a Guiding Coalition Formulate Strategic Vision & Initiatives Communicate to Create Buy-In and Build a “Volunteer Army” Accelerate Movement By Ensuring the Network Removes Barriers Celebrate Visible, Significant Short Term Wins Never Let Up. Keep Learning. Don’t Declare Victory Too Soon. Institutionalize Strategic Changes In The Culture Source: Accelerate! John Kotter; HBR, Nov 2012

Change is how we realize great solutions ExperienceChange Change is how we realize great solutions November 14, 2003 SOLUTION ORGANIZATION UNDERSTAND ENLIST ENVISAGE MOTIVATE COMMUNICATE ACT CONSOLIDATE Align key stakeholders Engage the organization Bring great solutions to life with a two phase, seven step process Use this framework to structure what we already know. Close the knowing/ doing gap. There is no single right way that will guarantee success. Context is everything. The key is to consider each unique situation and create the appropriate model/ framework for planning. This change model is designed to maximize commitment and minimize resistance to change. Optional Exercise: Assign 1 – 2 stages/ group. Hand-out large tactic cards for full details. Think of some stories of change done well & not so well. Teach back through storytelling. Change Management Simulation

It’s time to BRAINSTORM! Brainstorm a “how might we…solve this aggravation?” 10 Minutes!

Rules of

Wouldn’t it be cool if…

Ideation Time "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde "The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away." - Linus Pauling "Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged." - Thomas Edison

Design Thinking in Three Steps 1. Define the Problem 2. Ideate Potential Solutions 3. Sell the Prototype

Understand the buyer’s point of view Solve for aggravation Story Board Start with the ‘Why’ Understand the buyer’s point of view Solve for aggravation Use thick markers Create simple pictures Add a tagline Add emotion to functionality

Build your Story Board

Oral final exam 1. What you will do differently as a result of what you learned in the leadership training. 2. What part of the training was most useful for you. 3. What part of the training will you teach and cascade to those around you.

Theodore Roosevelt It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

Thank you Kerry.Plemmons@du.edu