Rapid Change: Immediate Action for the Impatient Leader

It’s quite simple. if you want sustainable, long-term changes in results, you need behavior change today that leads to those results. You need action. Leaders are charged with doing all they can to achieve results through their people. Often times they grow impatient with the pace.



Rapid Change provides leaders with a recipe for translating the proven science of behavior change into a process that helps get change quickly, easily and with impact. Author, Joe Laipple, puts over 20 years of experience to work as he illustrates this process through examples from real leaders and includes the specific business outcomes they achieved by changing their own behavior, influencing change in others, and enhancing the cultures they led.



With a realistic understanding of business today, Rapid Change tackles how to troubleshoot and overcome the inevitable signs of resistance that you will encounter along the way. This book also provides several tools and tips that can be used by individuals, teams, and organizations, including The 3-Minute Meeting™—frequent yet brief, high-impact interactions among leaders and employees essential for influencing incremental change on a daily basis.



Rapid Change will help leaders:



Better understand change and how to manage their own impatience, deliberately and with persistence

Prepare and respond to challenges along the path to change

Apply behavioral tools and tips for change including a Coaching for Rapid Change starter kit

Create a behavioral vision for as little as 30 days

Use The 3-Minute Meetingâ„¢ to get change started and keep it going



Rapid Change is not a temporary fix. It is a playbook for supporting leaders in influencing change along the path to optimal performance; immediate change that leads to desired long-term outcomes.



Ideal for anyone looking to change their own behavior, influence the behavior of others or create long-term culture change.



"Creating and sustaining culture change is difficult. Joe has it right in recognizing the make or break importance of leaders in the change process. Rapid Change provides critical tools and techniques for ensuring success."



Michael Bogenschutz

Vice President,

Plant Operations

SCA Tissue North America