Kotter's 8 Steps Change Model

Design a change journey that doesn't fail using Kotter's 8 Steps for change.

John Kotter is a leadership and change management professor at Harvard Business School. He laid out eight key steps of the change management process:

1. Create a sense of urgency

2. Building a guiding coalition

3. Form a strategic vision

4. Enlist a volunteer army

5. Enable action by removing barriers

6. Generate short term wins

7. Sustain acceleration

8. Institute change

Use this template to design your change journey.

Bonus: Kotter's 8 Steps is one of five widely adapted change models. Included in this Miroverse template is an overview of the key steps in the other change models as Lewin, McKinsey 7 Steps, Nudge Theory and Adkar.