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California State LibraryOctober 12, 2010
Gaining Staff Buy-in
Get Involved! Powered by Your Library
Flickr: Chewy Chua
The 2010-2011 Series
• October 12, 2010• 12 - 1pm Pacific
Gaining Staff Buy-in
• February 10, 2011• 12 – 1 pm Pacific
Building a Community of Practice
• June 28, 2011• 12 – 1 pm Pacific
Measuring Impact and Outcomes
• August 3, 2011• 12 – 1 pm Pacific
Tentative: Cultivating Authentic Volunteer
Leadership
Nonprofit Life Cycle
Susan Kenney Stevens, PH.D.
Idea Start-up Growth Maturity Decline Turnaround Terminal
Encountering Resistance
Environment
System
Groups
Individuals
Change is the only constant.
Heraclitus
Sources of Resistance
Fear and Insecurity
Low Morale and Burnout
Resentment and
Disagreement
Ignorance InertiaGroupthink and Conflict Avoidance
Breaking Through
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. Patton
Flickr: dan zen
San Jose Public Library
Joan Young
What resistance did you face?
What did you do or not do?
What happened?
What’s next?
Flickr: dan zen
Fresno Public Library
Elizabeth Finkle
What resistance did you face?
What did you do or not do?
What happened?
What’s next?
Flickr: dan zen
Roseville Public Library
Gail McGrath
What resistance did you face?
What did you do or not do?
What happened?
What’s next?
Welcome to the Pilot Launch
Flickr: aak ook
Breaking Through
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover
Anchor Change in the Culture
Communicate and Learn
Breakthrough Steps
Establish Urgency
Convene Teams
Paint the Vision
Give Permissio
n
Work Through
Obstacles
Create Short
Term Wins
Breakthrough Strategies
• Let resisters speak their truth
• Hear reasons for agreementListen
• Focus on what’s right, not who’s right
• Be patientAccept
Breakthrough Strategies
• Why? How? What?• Questions encourage
logic and reasonAsk
• Win by losing• Show understandingGive
Flickr: Max-thinks-sees
The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity
to act on their ideas and dreams.
−W. Arthur Porter
Thank You!
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