Leading Organizational Change (LOC) continue

This week, I mostly discussed with my subordinates on the failure of change initiatives in the company. We discussed on the John P. Kotter’s methodology steps;
1- Establishing a Sense of Urgency;
2- Forming a Powerful Guiding Coalition;
3- Creating a vision;
4- Communicating the Vision;
5- Empowering Others to Act on the Vision;
6- Planning for Creating Short-Term wins;
7- Consolidating Improvement and Producing Still more change;
8- Institutionalizing New Approach.
As according to Kotter, there is not short cut on the steps to be taken to ensure the success of transformation initiative. Our lengthy discussion can be concluding that in our company we don’t do enough on the following steps:
- Lack in sense of urgency;
- Very loose guiding coalition;
- No proper vision;
- No throughout communication;
- No short-term wins;
- Improvement on ad-hoc basis;
In short, our change initiative usually fail and should take consideration of kotter’s 8 steps to esure the success of transforming regardless how small in the initiative.