Leading Organizational Change

Leading Organizational Change Workshop

Change Management Strategies for Maximum Results

Why It's Needed

Managing organizations during times of major change is the greatest challenge leaders face. Continuous, overlapping change often causes losses in productivity, morale problems, increases in turnover, and dysfunctional behavior.  Leaders must learn how to not only manage change, but also how to manage the inevitable human “transitions” that people experience when faced with significant change.  Participants in this workshop will learn how to deal with these dual challenges.  

Workshop Summary

This one-day workshop guides participants through the key concepts of organizational change and the related psychological reactions of those who are the “targets” of organizational change.  Participants apply these concepts to their own change projects through the use of a number of diagnostic and assessment tools.  Each participant formulates a personalized action and communications plan that will form the basis of an implementation strategy.  

The most effective and impactful method for delivery of this workshop is for the entire leadership team that will be leading the change effort to attend together.

Workshop Objectives

1. Understand the organizational dynamics that shape the context for major change.
2. Recognize the types of dysfunctional behavior that are being exhibited in organizations as a result of these dynamics.
3. Understand the differences between “Change” and “Transition,” and the different leadership strategies that are required to deal with each.
4. Understand the process of organizational change, and the process of transition -- the human side of change -- and how these two processes interrelate.
   
5. Assess organization-specific issues related to change, transition, culture, and resistance.   
6. Analyze the organization-specific change initiative to identify issues, risks, and alternative strategies for implementation.
7. Generate action steps that each participant must take to provide leadership and to ensure a more successful change initiative.  

Who Should Attend

Anyone who will be expected to lead organizational change efforts (e.g., executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, “change agents”).  It is highly recommended that the leadership team that will be leading the change effort attend this workshop together.

Getting Started

How do we get started? We normally begin with a no-cost and no obligation get-acquainted meeting.  We'll want to hear about your change initiative -- its goals and the context of the change. We’ll also want to learn about your organization, its culture, history, structure, and challenges/opportunities. And, you will want to get comfortable with us.