What Are the Eight Steps of Change?

The ability to adapt to new technology and changing circumstances is a prerequisite for an organization’s long-term survival, so adopting an effective process for implementing change management is naturally quite important.

John Kotter’s Steps of Change

Here we’ll look at those Eight Steps of Change in terms of the different stages of change management they represent.

Creating the Right Environment

Proving the Power of Change

Once the seed for change has been properly sown, the stage is set to expand the efforts to bring it about. This means spreading the word and displaying the benefits of what you want to bring about, which is where the next three steps of Kotter’s methodology come in:

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Sustaining Progress

Once the process has begun and well and truly been bought into, the most important thing is to keep it going. It can be easy to sit back and think that the movement for change will snowball and continue on its own, to the contrary, it must still be guided and pushed, as described by the final two of Kotter’s list:

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