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1. Gaining Clarity on Your Change Initiative • www.powernoodle.com

2. This Powernoodle Solution Was developed with the help of Powernoodle Expert: Liz Guthridge “My goal is to get everyone on the same page as quickly as possible, making sure the change is clear and credible so that it will stick.” Lizworks with leaders to influence employees to get on board with change. She helps leaders gain clarity around change so they can share their vision, explain their goals and clearly articulate their “ask” of team members, peers and other employees who often don’t work for them.

3. About Powernoodle With Powernoodle, your group will move through a structured process for sharing ideas, filtering and then evaluating them to create a prioritized action plan. Powernoodle provides distinct advantages to your team: • Speed • Convenience • Confidentiality • Candor • Efficiency .

4. Why Is Clarity Important in Creating Change? Individuals affected by the change must be able to answer this important question: “Do I know what we are doing and why?” This Powernoodle will help your change management team clarify their change approach and communication to enable everyone to gain the same understanding of the strategy, regardless of their position in the organization.

5. The Powernoodle Approach – Simple yet Powerful This Powernoodle will help your group understand and articulate a clear change agenda. In this Powernoodle, participants: • Suggest actions to communicate the strategy. • Combine the actions into categories. • Assess the actions on the three criteria: • Clarity: Does it explain where we’re going & why? • Credibility: Is it believable and trustworthy? • Consequence: Does it have an impact?

6. Preparing Your Powernoodle Your first step is to clarify the overall objective of the change initiative for which you want to take action. This objective becomes the basis for the Powernoodle session… “How do we…” “What are all the ways we can…” “What actions can we take that will…”

7. The Powernoodle Organizer’s job • The Organizer creates the session, invites Participants, and leads the group through the Powernoodle steps: Brainstorm, Categorize, Combine, Vote, Rate, Prioritize, and Action Plan. • Depending on the session’s purpose, the Organizer is able to customize the Powernoodle as needed. • Every Powernoodle creates a Powernoodle Report, a complete record of the decision-making trail in a downloadable spreadsheet.

8. Select your Organizer An Outside Facilitator? Advantages: • Brings objectivity • Adds specialized facilitation knowledge - can keep the group on track and on time • Allows all participants to focus on the discussion Disadvantages • Will need some background preparation An In-House Team Leader? Advantages: • Holds valuable content knowledge • Understands your organization and how it operates Disadvantages • Might be too busy organizing the sessions to participate fully • May not recognize biases

9. Launching your Powernoodle Session To get started, the Powernoodle Organizer: • Creates the Powernoodle Session. • Creates a set of Gaining Clarity on Change Questions. What are all the reasons this needs to change? Who needs to change their behavior because of this change? Who will feel the impact of this change? • Invites all participants via email into the Powernoodle Session. Looking for more detailed directions? Watch the Organizer Training Series videos www.powernoodle.com

10. The Organizer’s Session Room You can work on several questions in a session. List of invited Participants

11. Gaining Clarity on Change Action Process Brainstorm: Consider each and contribute ideas. Comment on other participant’s ideas. Rate: Consider each idea on three criteria with 1=strongly disagree, and 10 = strongly agree. This provides clarity. This increases the credibility of the change. This has an impact on our stakeholders. Prioritise: Determine the most critical actions using the following standard: “Knowing what I know today, this is how I would allocate our resources to achieve our objective.”

12. Easy tool for rating ideas. You can provide detailed information about the Rating statements here. Intuitive pop-up sliders for rating each idea. Powernoodle calculates average rating for each idea and presents ideas in order.

13. Gaining Clarity on ChangeNext Steps The Organizer generates the Powernoodle Report.The report shows how the group evaluated the ideas to reach their decisions. • The Report is created automatically after your session ends. • It is available in spreadsheet format for you and your participants. • It captures every discussion thread for future reference and action. The Report becomes the foundation of your Action Plan to build greater clarity, credibility and consequences so people will understand what’s going on, make a commitment and take action to help you accelerate your change.

14. Immediate report in excel. Everyone can download the report immediately. Creates transparency and maintains momentum and buy-in. Also saves time! Each step of session captured in detail.

15. Powernoodle help and support For detailed examples and directions, you can: • Watch the Powernoodle Organizer Training Series videos. • Log in and visit the Help section. • Contact us at support@powernoodle.com. • Join the Powernoodle user groups online.

16. Liz Guthridge Website: http://www.connectconsultinggroup.com Blog: http://connectconsultinggroup.com/blog/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lizguthridge Join Liz in the Powernoodle Group on LinkedIn.com www.powernoodle.com To purchase a Powernoodle plan, please visit our website. 16

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