Our Iceberg is Melting - wasbo.com · PDF file10/3/14 1 Our Iceberg is Melting WASBO 2014 Fall Conference Book Discussion Have you ever discovered a critical issue? Do you • Keep

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Our Iceberg is Melting

WASBO 2014 Fall Conference Book Discussion

Have you ever discovered a critical issue?

Do you… •  Keep the

information to yourself?

•  Take independent action?

•  Share with someone?

•  With whom?

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What can we learn from our tale?

The Eight Steps for Changing and Succeeding Under Any Circumstances.

Create the Urgency

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Put Together the Guiding Team Cannot do the job alone

Create a Change Vision and Strategy

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Communicate for Buy In

Empower Others

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Produce Short Term Wins Build support and reassure the skeptics

Don’t Let Up

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Anchor the Changes Tradition dies a hard death

Who is the cast of characters that you have to work with? Who are you?

How do you respond, and work with – or around – to reach your goals?

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Other Lessons Ø Know who the key players are

Ø  What if Fred went a different leader than Alice?

Ø  Prepare the Data, Demonstrate the Evidence Ø  But know that data alone may not be

sufficient. Or may turn some off. Ø  Remember the bottle

Ø Be ready for the NoNo’s of your organization Ø  Vested in the established order. Ø  Sabotage?

Other Lessons Ø Be ready for challenges

Ø  Some predictable, others not Ø  NoNo and his accomplices

Ø  In fighting for power (“President of the Scouts”)

Ø  Well meaning but disruptive forces (the Kindergarten teacher)

Ø  Culture (“We don’t feed other adults”)

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8 Steps to Success