Levels of involvement

Different levels of involvment by Senge The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, 1998 – ajusted version

1. Co-creating – high involvem., high learning capacity and need to set direction for change
2. Consulting
3. Testing
4. Selling
5. Telling – low involvem., low learning capacity and low need to set direction for change

Model is based on large companies.

Telling as the lower level has  a high level of control and predictability. Co-creating needs a high level of engagement and empowerment – thus accepting not beeing in control but “riding the wave” and get everybody safely ashore, handeling questions, frustrations, ideas – everybody has the right to speak. At the level of telling you control who gets the story first.

Implementation strategy

Different strategy for implementation

• Small steps -  divide tasks, small part of org
• Domino/Cascade – whole task, small part of org
• Wave/Campaign – divide task, whole org.
• Big bang – whole task, whole org.

The strategy can not stand on it’s own without knowing the organization and how it will act. Interviewing employees or using questionaire will be appropriate.

Use
The different approaches can be used to different parts of the organization e.g. HQ, decentralized departments, partners.

Day 2 with Implement – excercise

Ok exercise this morning. Everybody on the floor. Ask e.g. how many follow the normal procedure, how many likes to have influence on changes. Ask them them to have those who want’s it a lot in one end of the room and those don’t in the other end – it’s ok, to be somewhere in the middle.

Point: you get a visuel “people map” of how people think i the department/organization.