Chapter 12: Are You Ready?

If you have journeyed through the previous chapters of this book, hopefully you will now have gained some thoughts and ideas to better prepare you for important time-sensitive changes. One thing that frequently cannot be controlled is when these changes or implementations arise but when they do, having a plan is essential. The components of our rapid change model included the identification of the demand and/or need for change along with considerations whether or not the change needs to be sustainable, the conceptualization of rapid change, leader metacognition and engagement in self-reflection and evaluation, the creation of a vision, the facilitation of the rapid change process, establishment of monitoring and evaluation measures, and finally if required and appropriate establishment of strategies and people to lead the change forward to sustainability, and/or the identification of a new problem or change agenda which commences the rapid change process again. This chapter presents advice that you may want to consider to get you started.