Urgency to Drive Change
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In this video, Dr. Robin Largue explains that urgency is a critical component of change. She also tells us the right kind of urgency has to be consistently communicated from the top.
Reflection Activity
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Reflection Activity
- What’s that change that you believe is most critical for your team to move forward or for your organization to move forward?
- What is the urgency?
- What’s that key point that you know, and you need to communicate so everyone shares the sense of urgency?
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I’m Robin Largue and I am a coach with
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Studer Education, I have the great pleasure
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to work with leaders across our country
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each and every day and I’m just going to
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talk just a little bit about this thing
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called urgency most of you have read or
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read about John Kotter’s work on a sense
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of urgency and it’s one of those
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components of change that’s critical if
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we truly are going to move our
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organization to change and to perform in
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a different way each day so urgency has
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to be communicated and it’s communicated
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by the executive leader and the
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executive team and the extent of that
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communication has to be consistent there
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the message is consistent and it has to
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be timely and focused on the audience
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but that communication of urgency runs
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throughout the organization I think
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sometimes when we use the word urgency
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we give it a certain definition that is
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about crisis or some intensity but
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really urgency says we are looking out
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at the trends and the forecasts in our
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profession we see things on the horizon
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that we need to pay attention to we need
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to see some folks performing at very
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high levels in our work and we need to
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look to them for best practices that we
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can use or tweak to fit us so that sense
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of urgency is around what’s going to
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make us better how are we going to be
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able to perform at higher levels and how
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are we going to be able to fulfill our
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mission in a much more significant way
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and really have great impact that’s
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going to be positive and so
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communicating that sense of urgency to
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our team is essential it doesn’t stop it
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continues throughout our existence as an
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organization and as a team urgency has
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to be there in order for us to have
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movement one of my colleagues Joann
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Starr
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he always says change is progress people
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don’t like to change but they do want to
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progress so as leaders I think it’s
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important for us to apply this idea of
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communicating urgency so as you go about
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your day think about what’s that change
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that you believe is really critical for
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your team to move forward or for your
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organization to move forward how are you
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going to communicate that sense of
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urgency what is the urgency what’s that
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key point that you know and you need to
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communicate so that everyone else has
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your same sense of urgency so go out
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there try it
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think about your communication think
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about how you’ll communicate and who
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you’re communicating with and
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communicate that sense of urgency to
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achieve the impact you want to achieve
