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Change
Driver
2- Emergence
-Deliverable
negotiating
4- Evolution
3- Test and
validation
1- Self
organisation
The official Changeboxing
Cheat Sheet
Materialisation of a CHANGE DRIVER
(Perception of environmental change
that causes discomfort or creates
opportunity to seize). IF resources
needed for change are available ….
EMOND-JASMIN Continuous
Change Evolution Model
The 8 Steps What (means) Why (purpose) Who (players) How (strategy)
The Changeboxing 8-step process
Yoann Francheteau 2010
SELF-ORGANISATION
Emergence of new COLLABORATIVE
change process using resources
made available
EMERGENCE
Increased WELL BEING due to new
benefits and improved conditions .....
Addition/Emergence of new resources
EVOLUTION
Meeting or exceeding desired benefits
and CONTINUOUS evolution in line
AVAILABLE NEW RESOURCES
1-Diagnosis 1-Individual meetings with stakeholders
2-Individual and collective validation of findings and
priorities
3-Recommendations for future course of action
1-Confirm and increase desire to
change
2-Increase desire for self-organisation
1-Representatives from as many
stakeholder groups as possible
2-Selected by their peers, not by
management
1- 45-50 minutes individual interviews confirming discomfort/opportunity, desire to
change and priorities for action.
2- Confirm findings/priorities and individual desire to get involved through e-mails
3- Present findings, collective priorities and recommendations for further actions to
upper management and all interviewees
2-Vision alignment session Training session kicked-off by top level
manager (president, VP) to:
1- Align vision of future hangeboxing volunteers'
team on desired change, as well as promote the
need for a collaborative approach to change
2-Introduce Changeboxing process
3-Select volunteers
4- Agree on date and content of first Changebox
Meeting
1- Provide additional resources
2- Stimulate desire to change
3- Stimulate self-organisation
4- Stimulate emergence
1- All those interviewed in step 1 and who
volunteered to work on the change
2- Any other stakeholders interested in
volunteering
3-Typically between 15 and 40 people
Typically titled something like «OUR collective improvement of OUR XXX
process/structure/tool for the benefits of US ALL»:
1- Start with welcome word by upper management
2- Proceed with sharing information on diagnosis, issues, approaches, best practices
related to the change contemplated, collaborative approaches to change
3- Summarily explain Changeboxing process
4- Discuss and agree on first elements of possible action plan
5- Finalise list of members of Changeboxing volunteers' team (typically 10 to 20
people representing all stakeholder groups)
6- Agree on when and on how long will be the first changebox meeting
3- Information sharing prior to
Changebox meeting
1- Gather support material, from internal and external
sources, to help achieve meeting outcome
1-Favor collaborative self-organisation
at changebox meeting
1- Internal organisers of changebox
meeting
Gather/prepare folowing support material:
1- Meeting agenda (including time to spend on each part of the meeting)
and CONTINUOUS evolution in line
with perceived environmental change
Changebox meeting
sources, to help achieve meeting outcome
2- Material NOT TO BE transmitted to participants
prior to changebox meeting
at changebox meeting
2- Subsequently accelerate emergence
of collective change element
meeting
2- Meeting's facilitator/coach
1- Meeting agenda (including time to spend on each part of the meeting)
2- Examples of tools, forms, templates, parts of processes, organisational charts,
documented change proposals, relevant to the desired change
3- Working template to help develop the change element (MindMap-list-generic R&R
matrix, etc)
4-Changebox (meeting) 1- Meeting aimed at producing a deliverable, in the
form of a readily useable «prototype»
2- Equivalent of a 3 to 7 hour «timebox», as defined
in Agile project management; also called a
«changebox»
3- Prototype to be produced, through sub-group and
group negotiations (no individual work allowed),
within the pre-determined duration of the changebox
4- Delivery of this «prototype-deliverable» for the end
of the meeting IS COMPULSARY
1- Rigid time constraints and collective
(as groups) negotiations favor
accelerated self-organisation and
emergence of change elements
2- Resulting «compulsary» deliverable is
a new resource favoring evolution of
the change element, and so does its
«prototype» nature
3- Create a tangible benefit stimulating
the desire to pursue change further
1- External coach or internal resource
perceived by stakeholders as legitimate
facilitator, transparent and trustworthy
2- A member of upper management for
the introduction part of the chanbebox
3- ALL members of the volunteers' team,
as precious initial collaborative links will
emerge from this first changebox
Typical agenda for FIRST changebox:
1- Welcome word by member of upper management
2- Presentation of agenda
3- Presentation of support documents to team, including MindMap/list template,
4- Division of participants into sub-groups of 3 to 6 persons to elaborate sub-groups’
deliverable proposals
5- Brainstorming and negotiation between sub-groups for single proposal on
deliverable contents
6- Final agreement on the prototype-deliverable as reflected in template
7- Conclusions and decision on testing period for deliverable, as well as on subject
and date of the next changebox
5-Formatting of Changebox
deliverable
1- Formatting of deliverable into «useable form»,
within 48h of end of meeting
Produce useable additional resource
as fast as possible, compliant with
1- External coach or internal
representatives from changing
1- Prepare electronic version of the produced deliverable, compliant with what was
negociated between changebox participants, both in terms of format and documented
Desired
State
Initial
Status Quo
Change driver
New resources
New resources
1. Stimulate change driver (sense of urgency)
2. Make needed resources for change available to
empower stakeholders
3. Communicate resource availability to stimulate
collaborative self-organisation
4. Support and recognise short term
wins/benefits
EMOND-JASMIN Eight Steps to
Successful Change Emergence
SELF-
ORGANISATION
EMERGENCE
deliverable
within 48h of end of meeting
2- Format to reflect EXACTLY what has been
collectively decided on deliverable contents and
formatting, during changebox's negotiations
as fast as possible, compliant with
negociated contents:
1- Accelerate evolution
2- Stimulate further desire to change
representatives from changing
organisation (direct stakeholders)
2- Formatting by direct stakeholders
preferred option to encourage and
increase organisational ownership for the
new change element
negociated between changebox participants, both in terms of format and documented
contents
2- Transmit, within 48 hours, formatted deliverable to changebox participants, as well
as to any other stakeholders showing interest in this element of change and wanting to
test it in real time
6-Post-Changebox Meeting
Survey
«Electronic» survey of changebox participants
to get feedback on:
1- Contents/quality of produced deliverable
2- Process used to produce deliverable collectively
(a changebox)
3- Time constraint to produce deliverable
4- Performance of meeting's facilitator
5- Personal level of satisfaction with respect to
changebox
1- Reinforce sense of accomplishment,
hence stimulate desire to change
further
2- Provide additional resource for
evolution of change
(adjustments/improvements to change
process)
1- Survey to be completed by all
changebox participants
2- Survey to be compiled by designated
personnel of the organisation,
EXCLUDING the meeting's facilitator
1- Survey questionnaire sent to participants within 48 hours after changebox
2- A one week delay given to complete and return electronically questionnaire
3- Phone calls, two days before the end of delay, to ask participants, having yet to
return completed survey,to do so
4- Compile results of survey and share, in writing, with all participating stakeholders
(including the meeting's facilitator)
5- Include required adjustments resulting from survey into next changebox, EXCEPT
for any request to change/relax the pre-determined changebox duration time
constraint
7 Prototype Testing Use/test/evaluate «prototype» for a period
ranging from two weeks to one month following
the changebox that produced it.
1- Additional resource stimulates
evolution
2- Demonstrated usefulness of change
ALL changebox participants, as well
as any other stakeholders showing
interest in this element of change and
1- Prototype used by participants and other identified/ interested stakeholders over a
two to four-week period
2- Test results (documented/added benefits to users, proposed improvements)
Crisis or change to initial
environment
Yoann Francheteau 2010
Claude Émond et
QualiScope 2011
wins/benefits
5. Continue adding new resources in response to
stakeholders’ requests and roadblocks
encountered
6. Celebrate and stabilise new performances
resulting from the emerging change elements
7. Promote exceeding the benefits contemplated
initially as well as emergence of unexpected
benefits
8. Continue adding new resources in response to
stakeholders’ requests and new higher
performance goals
EMERGENCE
EVOLUTION
the changebox that produced it. 2- Demonstrated usefulness of change
element stimulates adoption of change
element and promotes further desire to
change, resulting in an additional
emergence /evolution cycle
interest in this element of change and
wanting to test it in real time
2- Test results (documented/added benefits to users, proposed improvements)
gathered through face to face interviews (when possible)
3- Test results to presented for discussion at the next changebox or at a special
meeting at the closing of the changeboxing cycle
8 New Changeboxing Cycle's
loop (repeat Steps 3 to 7), if
required
1- An additional changeboxing cycle's loop,
repeating steps 3 to 7 to produce a new prototype-
deliverable
2- Additional loops are used until the desired change
elements, defined at the begining of the
changeboxing cycle, have been produced and tested
1-Produce additional resources
supporting change
2- Stimulate additional emergence and
evolution loops to achieve desired
change level through successive
iterations
1-Same stakeholders as for the previous
changeboxing cycle's loop
2- Participants to the first changebox can
miss a subsequent changebox (preferable
not to miss more than one, but rule is
flexible and contextual)
Same contents as for steps 1 to 7 of first changeboxing cycle's loop AND:
1- Addition of a new item to changebox agenda, right after presentation of agenda, to
discuss testing results of prototype produced in step 6 of previous loop
2- Added discussion includes feedback on the testing period, agreement on
modifications to prototype as well as on a deliverable «stabilisation» period, during
which prototype will be used without further modifications (typical stabilisation periods:
6 months to a year)