by Cindy Alvarez | Released February 2017 | ISBN: 9781491976913

Enterprise companies are big and profitable for a reason: at some point, they found a formula that worked and executed on it. Problem is: what worked in the past isn't going to keep working. This isn't a course on figuring out what needs to change in your organization. You and your team know what needs to change. The hard part is how to make it happen! For the past 15 years, Cindy Alvarez has helped enterprise companies introduce new products, new processes, and new mindsets. Her advice: change is like an instrument—you need to practice every day. In this course, Cindy talks about the common problems that plague enterprise change and shares tactics that will help your team stop doubting and start doing.Learn to get buy-in, reduce risk, identify and set expectations, give updates, and share successMaster the tactics skilled leaders use to drive "planned change" and "rogue change"Understand why and how you should analyze the change efforts that failed at your companyExplore change-making concepts like mirroring, scaffolding, and working backwardsLearn about the "pre-mortem" and how it's used to minimize the risks of changeUnderstand the psychology of change resistance and the value of change resistersLearn to guide executive leaders on how to provide a "just right" amount of change supportCindy Alvarez's career has focused on helping early- and mid-stage startups as well as Fortune 500 companies become more customer-focused and experimental. Currently serving as Director of User Experience and Product Design for Yammer (a Microsoft company), Cindy holds a BA in psychology from Harvard and is author of the O'Reilly title Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy. Show and hide more Publisher resources View/Submit Errata

1. Introduction: Getting Change Done in the Enterprise 00:01:22
2. Get Buy-In First, or Go Rogue? 00:04:11
3. Learning from Your Organization's Past Failed Changes 00:03:54
4. How Do I Get Buy-In? 00:05:19
5. Making Sure That Your Enterprise Change Has a Clear Desired Outcome (with exercise) 00:06:14
6. Identifying Assumptions, Resources, and Constraints (with exercise) 00:07:10
7. Reducing Risk Through Pre-Mortem Discussions 00:03:41
8. A New Way to Talk About Goals and Plans 00:10:52
9. Helping Your Leadership Help You 00:06:22
10. How to Build Upon Small Successes to Continue Change 00:05:06
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