ELEV-LS 018: Change Management For Working Professionals

Description

Welcome to the Change Management workshop. Change is a constant in many of our lives. All around us, technologies, processes, people, ideas, and methods often change, affecting the way we perform daily tasks and live our lives. This workshop will give any leader tools to implement changes more smoothly and to have those changes better accepted. This workshop will also give all participants an understanding of how change is implemented and some tools for managing their reactions to change.

 

Course Core Objectives

Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, the learning occurs more easily and rapidly. With that in mind, let’s review our goals for today.

By the end of this workshop, you should 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

 

Module One: Preparing for Change

Topic A: Defining Your Strategy

Topic B: Building the Team

Module Two: Identifying the WIFM

Topic A: What’s in it for Me?

Topic B: Building Support

Module Three: Understanding Change

Topic A: Influences on Change

Topic B: Common Reactions to Change

Topic C: Tools to Help the Change Process

Module Four: Leading and Managing the Change

Topic A: Preparing and Planning

Topic B: Delegating

Topic C: Keep the Lines of Communication Open

Topic D: Coping with Pushback

Module Five: Gaining Support

Topic A: Gathering Data

Topic B: Addressing Concerns and Issues

Topic C: Evaluating and Adaptin

Module Six: Making it All Worthwhile

Topic A: Leading Status Meetings

Topic B: Celebrating Successes

Topic C: Sharing the Results and Benefits

Module Seven: Using Appreciative Inquiry

Topic A: The Four Stages

Topic B: The Purposes of Appreciative Inquiry

Topic C: Examples and Case Studies

Module Eight: Bringing People to Your Side

Topic A: A Dash of Emotion

Topic B: Plenty of Facts

Module Nine: Building Resiliency

Topic A: What is Resiliency?

Topic B: Why is It Important?

Topic C: Five Easy Steps for the Leader and the Individual

Module Ten: Building Flexibility

Topic A: What is Flexibility?

Topic B: Why is it Important?

Topic C: Five Easy Steps for the Leader and the Individual