Change Leadership Program

This program is designed for leaders, executives, or team leaders who must effectively guide others through the process of change. It is ideal for organizations that are experiencing major or ongoing change, and wish to engage and empower their people.

Change Leadership is a comprehensive exploration of requisite skills and tools to garner genuine commitment to change. Participants use a framework for designing and implementing change initiatives called the Five Lenses, which focuses on change through the perspectives of relationships, culture, stakeholders, structure, and information. As the lenses directly counter the 5 primary reasons that change efforts fail, it is essential that leadership develop competency in each area.

Participants will expand the scope of their vision to be more peripheral and encompassing. Our systemic approach to change enables leaders to better guide their group through a transition, avoid unexpected pitfalls, and more quickly realize the objectives of the change initiative.

During this workshop participants will:

• Learn to identify where others are in the individual change process.
• Gain skill at dealing with people’s nonproductive resistance to change.
• Understand the five key lenses for leading change.
• Develop an effective approach to communication.
• Identify strategies and learn skills to gain stakeholder support.
• Define the information and feedback required to measure success at the individual, team, and organizational level.
• Create an effective action plan for guiding their group/ organization through change.

The challenges to leading effective change are helping people understand the necessity for the change, garnering their buy-in and support, and providing 21st century tools and coaching on how to effectively implement new systems and processes. Leading Change provides an action-focused orientation for navigating complex change that helps managers gain genuine commitment.

The program is suited for any manager that leads a team, to an entire company of 50,000, and is especially relevant during times of restructuring, rapid growth, mergers and acquisitions.

Individual Contributors