Herding Big Cats: Transitioning the Reluctant Organization

The boardroom approves the plan. The money gets allocated. The decks look compelling. Then the change hits the meetings, emails, and one-to-ones nobody puts on the programme plan, and that’s where transformational change quietly dies in the meeting rooms and organizational corridors. Not because the strategy was wrong, but because nobody dealt with the politics. 

Herding the Big Cats is a conversation full of support around engaging and mobilising middle and senior management to make transformational change happen. 

What does this session include?

This concise conversation session is 35 minutes long and in four parts.

• The Corridor Problem: why the boardroom “yes” becomes a corridor “no,” and why transformation fatigue sets in before the first sprint ends. 

• The Politics of Reluctance: influence maps and the grey eminence: the person not on the plan who decides whether it lives or dies. 

• Exercise: Assemble your team and understand where influence lies, where real change happens and what hidden solutions already exist. 

• The Real World: Moving from the project focus on the ‘what’ to the long term ‘how’ of making it happen and illustrating the impact of change.

Who should watch?

This workshop is for anyone selling agile transformation into a reluctant enterprise or trying to make it happen inside one.

• Change Leads
• Transformation Programme Leaders
• Middle and Senior Managers