Change Management

Change is the one constant in work , processes, people, ideas, and proceedures often change, affecting the way we perform at work and impacting efficiency. This workshop is aimed at giving any leader tools to plan, formulate, introduce, implement changes seamlessly with better acceptance by teams

Topics covered

• Preparing for Change
• Identifying the WIFM - What's in it for me
• Understanding Change
• Managing the Change
• Gaining Support
• Making it All Worthwhile
• Using Appreciative Inquiry
• Bringing People to Your Side
• Building Resiliency
• Building Flexibility

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• List the steps necessary for preparing a change strategy and building support for the change
• Describe the WIFM - the individual motivators for change
• Use needed components to develop a change management and communications plans, and to list implementation strategies
• Employ strategies for gathering data, addressing concerns and issues, evaluating options and adapting a change direction
• Utilize methods for leading change project status meetings, celebrating a successful change implementation, and sharing the results and benefits
• Describe the four states of Appreciative Inquiry, its purposes, and sample uses in case studies
• Use strategies for aligning people with a change, appealing to emotions and facts
• Describe the importance of resiliency in the context of change, and employ strategies the change leader and individual change participant can use to foster resiliency
• Explain the importance of flexibility in the context of change, and demonstrate methods the participant can use to promote flexibility