Prepare yourself to be a change agent before managing organizational change

Duration: 1 Day

Who will benefit from this workshop?

Managers wanting to promote and manage change who need to gain insight into their change management style, their personal strengths and development needs for managing large scale organizational change.

Workshop objective

To provide managers with insight into their change management style, readiness to manage organizational change and practical change management skills.

Workshop objective

• Complete self-insight questionnaires designed to provide awareness on your change management style and general orientation to change in organizations.
• Learn how to play to change management strengths, enhance them and develop new change management skills.
• Work through a case study of an organization involved in a major change in order to gain insights into best practices and learn change management techniques including enhanced insight into your own change management style.
• Share insights with other participants on best approaches to the change issues in the case study exercise.
• Engage in role-plays to practice winning over a stakeholder or employee who is resisting the organizational change.
• Sharpen listening and facilitative skills; learn how to engage stakeholders and how to sell the need for change.
• Learn how to identify the change management styles of colleagues and how to encourage them to be more proactive in championing change themselves.
• Learn how to foster joint ownership for change as a way of minimizing resistance and facilitating smooth implementation.

• Workshop benefits
  

• Greater insight into your change management style as well as your strengths and development needs for managing major organizational change.
• Greater confidence to promote and manage change.
• A solid foundation of personal insight on which to learn more about the effective management and implementation of major change projects.

Other Workshops

1. The Engaging Manager - develop the skills of managers to better engage employees, gain their commitment and elevate their potential.
2. Excelling as a New Manager - learn how to make an effective transition from individual contributor to manager.
3. Are You a Change Agent? - assess a manager's potential to be a change agent and develop change management skills.
4. Leading Across the Organization - learn how to show leadership across and up as well as down.
5. How to Create an Engaging Culture - how to change an organization's culture to foster better employee engagement.
6. Fostering Greater Collaboration - how to improve collaboration across an organization.
7. Creating an Innovative Culture - how to develop a more innovative business culture.

Workshops are generally one day in length but they can be longer and more in depth as required. Follow up individual and/or group coaching is also offered where requested, bearing in mind that skill development is a process not an event. Individual and group coaching both take the form of reviewing what seems to be working and what isn't going so well and brainstorming optional approaches to specific issues. Group coaching has the added advantage of providing opportunities for the original workshop participants to share experiences and learn from each other.