Do we as Change Leaders understand the difference between Transition & Transformation?
Many times I have seen Change Leaders Coaching teams purportedly using the word as Transformation but in reality as doing mere Transition be it at Leadership level, Team Coaching, Agile Way of working.
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Transitions are a good change management approach to achieving a transformation unless the desired change must happen at a vastly accelerated pace.
I'd suggest that the boundary between the two is a grey area and what feels like a transition to one group of stakeholders might be perceived as a transformation by others.
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Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Transitions involve change of ownership (project results transitioned to operations, political power transitioned to election winner, .) and are mostly short.
Transformations can go on longer and involve a change to the system.
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This sounds like a situation an annoyed college professor lectured us on many years ago.
People in professional settings often use extra long words to make themselves sound more important, smarter, or more eloquent and in doing so choose words with the wrong meanings to the exact opposite effect.
Methodology, irregardless, practicable... Transformation? It has more syllables so it must convey more importance (unless you know the difference). Saving Changes...
One other way to think about this question is whether a change is evolutionary (transactional) or revolutionary (transformational). It can only be transformational if the (1) the whole system has been considered in the analysis and plan for change, and (2) changes are applied in the "deep structure" of the system. Saving Changes...
Senthil SPM III| GGS Information Services IncChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
I agree. Several jargons are frequently misused and therefore leads to chaos. Saving Changes...
