Principles for change: shared vision
Shared vision is about understanding the big picture and helping others to share in this.
Key factors
- Being able to help others to recognise and understand what’s driving the change and its timing.
- Explaining how the change links to the University's Strategy for Public Good and more specific departmental priorities.
- Helping people understand what the change will look and feel like once our end goal is achieved.
Resources on this page:
- Change Management Foundations
- Create your shared vision for change
- Overcoming complexity
- Leading your team through change
- Workshops (if you're new to change management)
Change Management Foundations
- Format: Online course (LinkedIn Learning)
- Time to complete: 46 minutes
- Phase of change: Plan
- Principle of change: Shared vision
A short course outlining the people and process side of change management, along with a step-by-step roadmap for implementing and managing change.
Learning outcomes
- Explore considerations around implementing change and assessing an organisation's readiness for change.
- Understand the emotional journey people go through during change.
- Explore approaches for creating enthusiasm, commitment for change and making change stick by forming new habits.
Create your shared vision for change
- Format: Video
- Time to watch: 5 minutes
- Phase of change: Plan
- Principle of change: Shared vision
A short exercise to explore how to create a shared vision. This video is part of a wider LinkedIn Learning course on transformational leadership but we have selected the most relevant video for this part of the change process.
Learning outcomes
Explore how emotions can help others to buy-in to a vision.
Create your shared vision for change
Overcoming complexity
- Format: Online course (LinkedIn Learning)
- Time to complete: 46 minutes
- Phase of change: Implement
- Principle of change: Shared vision
A short course exploring critical thinking and problem-solving.
Learning outcomes
- Discover proven tools and techniques to deal with complexity, including cultivating a greater sense of control and confidence.
- Understand how to make proactive and sustainable decisions.
Leading your team through change
- Format: Online course (LinkedIn Learning)
- Time to complete: 21 minutes
- Phase of change: Embed
- Principle of change: Shared vision
A short course introducing two models to support how you embed change. The frameworks can be used to establish how your team is feeling about a change, and how you can help drive your team to the change you want.
Learning outcomes
- Understand where your team is on the Support Continuum and how you can use this understanding to more effectively embed your change.
- Explore tips for supporting team members at different stages of the Support Continuum.
- Discover a five-step model that will help drive your team to the change you want.
Leading your team through change
Training and workshops
If you're in a leadership or management role, you may want to develop a range of skills that support you in your role, many of which are core to supporting change:
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