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Managing Change under Uncertainty

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Esther Celosse

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• International Corporate

Lawyer

• 25 years Financial Industry:
• People & Business

Development,

• Mergers &

Acquisitions

• Strategy
• Different continents &

countries

• 8 years Independent

Consultant & Adjunct professor Sacred Heart University

Through introductions to…

Change Leadership Skills

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..the higher the degree of Change & Uncertainty, ….the higher the need for AGILE LEADERSHIP SKILLS

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…we will arrive at the conclusion that….. Let’s start..…

Change Leadership Skills

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Quote Simon Sinek

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Tuesday January 13, 2015The Illusion Of Leadership

Which three skills did you use ?

How could it make you feel?

…….from the perspective of the teams, this is how it feels to have to follow instructions (implementation of change) if you have no view of the full picture…..(uncertainty & change) ……..from the perspective of the leader, this is how it feels if you think you have the full picture (vision/strategy), but your teams seem to have a limited understanding of what you try to explain them (feeling uncertainty..)…..

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Change Leadership Skills

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Three Types of Change

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Two high level reasons for Change

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Two high level reasons for Change Patterns of Change

Reactive Proactive

Crisis Maintenance Development Transition Transformation

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Desired State Current Sate Gap Analysis Change Path Implemen tation Test Sustaining Change

General Process Managing Change

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Uncertainty

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4 Levels of Uncertainty

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Opportunity! Uncertainty?

Manage the information & weigh the importance

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Embrace what you cannot control and focus on what can be done .

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Degree of Change Degree of Uncertainty

Low Low High High

Predictive Incremental Iterative AGILE

What is agility?

Knowing that you don’t know…. ….and operating Intelligently.

Interesting but so what???

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Key to Change Management?

the more need for AGILE Approach and therefore for Agile Leadership Skills

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The higher the level

• f Uncertainty and

the grade of Change Cornerstones for AGILE Leadership

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Change Leadership Skills

How to better cope with Managing Change under Uncertainty? Further develop your internal agility skills and become an Agile Leader!

• Active Listening skills
• Clear Story-telling skills
• Extensive Feedback skills

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(Esther.Celosse@gmail.com)

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Literature & articles of interest

• McKinsey & Company, Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit: How to

confront uncertainty in your strategy.

• Agile Alliance & PMI : Agile Practice Guide to PMBOK Guide sixth edition
• Principles behind the Agile Manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org
• Simon Sinek, Penguin Random House 2011: Start with WHY: How great

leaders inspire everyone to take action.

• Jason Little, Happy Melly Express 2014: Lean Change Management:

Innovative practices for managing organisational change

• John Hayes, Palgrave McMillan 2014: The theory and practice of Change

Management

• Sattar Bawany, EDA 2016 : Leading in a VUCA World:

https://www.executivedevelopment.com/leading-vuca-world/

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