
Change Management
Course Objectives
- 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 change leader and individual change participant can use to promote flexibility
Course Syllabus
Module One: Getting Started
Workshop Objectives
Module Two: Preparing for Change
Defining Your Strategy
Building the Team
Module Three: Identifying the WIFM
What’s in it for Me?
Building Support
Module Four: Understanding Change
Influences on Change
Common Reactions to Change
Tools to Help the Change Process
Module Five: Leading and Managing the Change
Preparing and Planning
Delegating
Keep the Lines of Communication Open
Coping with Pushback
Module Six: Gaining Support
Gathering Data
Addressing Concerns and Issues
Evaluating and Adapting
Module Seven: Making it All Worthwhile
Leading Status Meetings
Celebrating Successes
Sharing the Results and Benefits
Module Eight: Using Appreciative Inquiry
The Four Stages
The Purposes of Appreciative Inquiry
Examples and Case Studies
Module Nine: Bringing People to Your Side
A Dash of Emotion
Plenty of Facts
Module Ten: Building Resiliency
What is Resiliency?
Why is It Important?
Five Easy Steps for the Leader and the Individual
Module Eleven: Building Flexibility
What is Flexibility?
Why is it Important?
Five Easy Steps for the Leader and the Individual
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
Words from the Wise
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