Jeffery Whippo Discusses the Major Reasons for the Success or Failure of Change Efforts within an Organization

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Jeffery Whippo Discusses the Major Reasons for
the Success or Failure of Change Efforts within
an Organization
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Jeffery Whippos Views On Research Done By
Mckinsey Company

• Jeffery Whippo, a professional educator and
  organizational leadership expert specifies that
  research done by McKinsey Company has shown
  that 70 of all change efforts that are attempted
  within organizations fail.
• He says that even with intense change from
  corporate reorganizations, new software systems,
  and quality-improvement projects, this failure
  rate has been consistent for decades.

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The Key Reasons for this Failure

• Jeffery Whippo feels there are four reasons for
  failure that leaders can look to in order to
  proactively work to reduce the chance of failure-
• Lack of Knowledge
• Lack of Skills and Practice
• Hidden Conflicts working against Change
• Culture working against Change

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Heres How Leaders Can Prevent Failure

• Jeff Whippo says that while most leaders know
  what it takes to lead change well, there is a
  huge gap between what they know and what they
  actually end up doing to lead the change efforts.
• The trick for leaders to help prevent failure due
  to a lack of knowledge is to simply apply what
  they already know in a more effective manner.
• Secondly, he implies that deliberate practice is
  essential to successfully leading change efforts
  and that guided practice with the ability to make
  mistakes and discuss processes is critical to
  adult learning.

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Whippo Talks about Self-Limiting Beliefs of
Leaders

• Jeff Whippo strongly believes that while some
  leaders understand the concepts of how to lead
  change, they are not able to act on that
  knowledge which causes their leadership to be
  ineffective as they make the same mistakes over
  and over again.
• He says that this can happen in organizations due
  to something called self-limiting beliefs.
• An example of self-limiting beliefs would include
  leaders not sharing information for fear that
  employees cant handle the truth, or leaders
  believing that delegating tasks to a subordinate
  is a sign of weakness.

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Thank YouJeffery David Whippo