The document discusses various approaches to organizational change, referred to as "rightshifting." It describes 16 options for facilitating transitions, including using productive dialogue, studying workflow processes, implementing kanban or lean principles, adopting positive psychology techniques, coaching, building consensus, and using models like Theory of Constraints or Kotter's 8 steps of change. The overall guidance is for incremental change through empowering employees and focusing on continuous improvement.
33. Option 1: Productive Dialogue First
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Assumes:
Shortage of dialogue skills
Meaningful dialogue matters
Cf. Argyris, Bohm, etc.
34. Option 2: Get knowledge
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(With a view to changing the system)
Go to the Gemba, accompanied by the managers
Study the system (the way the work works)
Understand the work, from the customers’ view
Follow the path of Purpose -> Measures -> Method
35. Make things visible
Limit Work in Progress
Manage flow
Make policies explicit
Improve collaboratively
Option 3: Kanban
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36. • Asking “What’s going well?”
• Deciding “What should we do more of?”
• Posing “The Miracle Question” c.f. Solutions Focus
• Adopting the position that “People already have all
the resources they need to achieve their goals”
• Following the precepts of e.g. P.E.R.M.A.
(Seligman)
Option 4: Positive Psychology
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37. G.R.O.W.:
• Goals (What are we trying to achieve?)
• Reality (Where are we now with respect to our
goals?)
• Options (What options do we have?)
• Will (What will we commit to doing?)
Option 5: Coaching, Conversations
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40. See the workforce as “the customer”
Option 9: Emotioneering
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41. a.k.a. The Last Mile First
Option 10: Servant Leadership
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42. Is purpose important?
What about consensus?
And dialogue?
Which of the principles mentioned
herein do we think count?
And in what order, if any?
Option 11: Consensus
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43. a.k.a. Interactive Planning (Ackoff)
“The best place to begin an intellectual
journey is at its end.”
~ Russell L. Ackoff
Option 12: Reference Projection
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44. What to change?
What to change to?
How to effect the change?
Option 13: Theory of Constraints
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