This Slideshare presentation is a partial preview of the full business document. To view and download the full document, please go here: http://flevy.com/browse/business-document/manage-to-lead-system-workshop-1620 BENEFITS OF DOCUMENT 1. Clear context for change in support of each of the most important issues currently constraining performance and growth. 2. A head-start to turn any Initiative into Action using the IntelliVen Initiative-to-Action template. 3. A foundation for governance that ensures what leaders want to have happen actually happens! DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The Manage to Lead System is a proven approach to driving change in organizations. The slides presented here guide a leadership team to identify and work on what is most important to change next in their organization in order to achieve its potential to perform and grow. Many annual leadership off-sites end up with a list of important things to do that happen to be a lot of the same things that were on last year's list and will likely be on next year's as well. What is missing is a context for, and a way to launch, envisioned change that drives home for the entire organization how things are now, why they must change, how things will be when change occurs, what must be done to change, what will make it hard to change, and who will do what next to make the change happen. These slides and templates change the game for leadership teams that are serious about unlocking their full potential to perform and grow.

2. Ground Rules
• Think of your organization itself as a ropes-course where
the team grows together by working on it as one.
• Act as a member of a collective leadership in the mindset
of the CEO and NOT as a representative of a
constituency.
• Say what needs to be said (do NOT be politically correct)
and say it in the room.
• Focus, stay present, engage, develop a point of view, and
participate even if your role is not directly related to topic
being covered at the time.

3. 7
Get Aligned
Decide what kind of
leader to be and collect
followers.
Truth. It takes a team.
Action.

4. Use the Change Framework to lay
out the context for each Initiative.

5. 11
What must be done to achieve the Target State.
Change Framework
What really good things happen if we change?
What really bad things happen if we do not change?
Case for Change
How things will be
after the change.
Target State
What will be hard about implementing the
actions needed to achieve the target state?
Barriers
How things
are now.
Current State

6. Tips for Filling Out the Change Framework
• Use to tell the story not to figure it out.
• Current and target state entries are in
present tense.
• Strategic initiatives begin with verbs.
• For every entry in target state there must be:
A corresponding entry in current state.
Something in the case for change that
motivates the target state.
A way to measure where it is now and where it
is to end up being (to know when the intended
benefit is realized).
• Planning horizon is far enough out so as to
not be constrained by the present.
• It is ok that the goal as originally conceived
is never (rarely) reached due to changing
circumstances along the way.
• Fill out chart in this order: left-top-right-
middle-bottom.
When you get to the bottom you may need to
add more to the middle.
Along the way tweak prior entries as needed.
• When done, step back to see if the chart
tells a story that hangs together and makes
sense. E.g., level of detail for states vs.
initiatives often varies; bring them in synch.
• Prepare a separate chart for each strategic
initiative.

7. 14
Initiative-to-Action

8. 16
Do & Review
Take action.
Review what happens.
Truth. It pays to pay attention.
Action.

9. 19
Truth. No leader succeeds alone.
Get Help
Build a board. Retain
Experts. Get a coach.
Action.

10. Don’t do much else!

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