Dealing With Change

Dealing With Change Workshop

Gaining Alignment Throughout the Organization

Why It's Needed

The new challenges and opportunities brought about by major organizational change may be quite exhilarating to those expected to carry it out.  At the same time, however, change can be very disorienting and scary.  People who are experiencing significant changes at work often feel vulnerable and fearful.  They feel strange emotions about themselves and their organization.  Yet, they don’t understand why they feel the way they do.

Workshop Summary

The half-day Dealing with Change workshop is a “companion” program to the Leading Organizational Change workshop for leaders.  By delivering Dealing with Change to all non-supervisory staff, leaders can ensure that their staff will share a common terminology and conceptual understanding about the change process. Participants will learn how to cope with change and better understand their own natural reactions to the change process.

Workshop Objectives

1. Understand the difference between being a “victim” of change and being a “Change Agent.”  
2. Understand how attitudes about change can affect behavior in dysfunctional ways that negatively impact organizational productivity, morale, and day-to-day operations.  
3. Understand the difference between “Change” and “Transition.”  
4. Understand the nature of “resistance.”  
5. Each participant gains a deep understanding of how he/she is personally responding to the change and why he/she feels that way.  
6. Sort those things participants have control/influence over (regarding the change) from those things they have little control/influence over  
7. Learn how to choose to be a Change Agent.  
8. Learn how to help others adapt to change.  
9. Create an individualized action plan to be a Change Agent.

Who Should Attend

Any non-supervisory staff who are impacted by significant changes in organizational structure, systems, processes, and/or procedures.