Lead Change by Design Toolkit

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How might we enable people at all levels of an organization to make ideas happen?
How might we lead change so we don’t have to ‘manage’ the people side (and actually design change people want to support)?
How might we give people tools and skills to design change that matters?
How might we communicate and organize so people want to follow?

This toolkit is my answer to those questions. I take an interdisciplinary approach to innovate how we lead change, how we make ideas happen. I wrote this toolkit because I fundamentally believe you can’t templatize and survey your way through change. I want to teach you how to use your left brain and right brain to think about change and design change in a way that inspires, connects, and addresses human behavior rather than have you fill out assessments and templates. Check out the table of contents.

Friends and readers, my ebook on Lead Change by Design is now available for your consideration. The link above is for those who are ready to order, and for those who want more information, just keep reading.

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About the book

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This book is about putting design at the center stage of change management. It’s about looking at change management in an innovative way. My goal is to provide you essential building blocks to design change, design ideas, that people understand, talk about, willingly adopt, and even celebrate. Get the change right, get the design right, and people will follow. This book doesn’t require you to stop using conventional change management practices, though it challenges you to rethink how you go about it. In the end, you will have a framework, structure, and plan to make serious progress in making ideas happen and leading change in your business.

I share the insights and methods of uber-productive creative leaders and teams – companies like IDEO and Procter&Gamble, and individuals like bestselling author Seth Godin, Neuroleadership Institute founder David Rock, Harvard Business professor and author Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rotman School of Management dean and author Roger Martin, visionary and world-leading innovator Bruce Mau, and IDEO CEO Tim Brown, among others.

To each author, thanks. Your work made a difference and I took a seed from your generous work and applied it, grew it, into something else. Something that I hope will spread far and wide so we can design change, lead change, and not just ‘manage’ it.

I hope that this book will help more brilliant ideas and change that matters see the light of day. Although it is the end product of years of research, it is also the beginning of a richer conversation about leading change in the real world. I am thrilled to invite you to order the book, spread the word, and start leading the **** out of change.

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What’s Included?

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There is a ton of useful information in this thorough, user-friendly toolkit that walks you through how to take your idea, your change, from spark through to implementation, which includes:

A 113-page PDF detailed toolkit, with step by step instructions about how to do everything described on this page (and a lot more), including:
A 3-phase methodology with clear actionable steps
25 powerful thought provoking exercises

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You’ll learn to:

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get grounded, centered and focused on how to lead change and make ideas happen
bring an innovative idea to the forefront and put it into action
make bold change in your organization
apply a series of action steps to lead and design change
increase the speed and effectiveness of creating change that matters
go deep and discover something of value beyond conventional, surface level change management
inject a big dose of collaboration into what it means to lead change
shape your story in a way that inspires people to care
be an active guide in the design of change, rather than a passive bystander to ‘manage’ it

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Is this just positive thinking stuff disguised as a “paradigm shift”?

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I’m assuming you’ve already tried a bunch of stuff to ‘manage’ change in your organization or team. So I’m not going to give you the “let’s create a communication plan and manage resistance” business jargon and pretend that’s enough to solve your problems. This also isn’t about the usual change management ‘best practices’ (develop your ’sponsorship model’, create a ‘burning platform’, build awareness, oh and people need to be motivated, and don’t forget to train them too!).

I’m talking about innovation in how to lead change. The foundation of this process is a fundamental shift in how we lead change. All based on the belief that we can design change, design ideas, that people understand, talk about, willingly adopt, and even celebrate. Get the change right, get the design right, and people will follow. 

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Author

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If we haven’t had the pleasure of meeting, I am Melissa Dutmers, President of RIVERFORK Consulting. You can read my full bio here. I bring 15 years of professional experience in the high-tech corporate world working inside corporations such as Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies where I collaborated with thousands of executives, managers, and employees. Prior to founding RIVERFORK, I also worked as a trainer and facilitator for a major change management training firm.

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Buy Lead Change by Design

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The Lead Change by Design Toolkit is designed to be affordable for individuals that are part of organizations of all sizes. I don’t want to bore you with a long explanation of how much this “should” cost — the material is solid.

You’ll get over 15,000 words of excellent content + a single user license.

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Questions

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Shoot em to me directly at mdutmers@riverforkconsulting.com.  You can also try twitter – @RiverFork.

WORKSHOP: Lead Change by Design
When you’re ready to schedule a workshop, please contact me directly at mdutmers@riverforkconsulting.com

To your success,