Management of Change
Description: Individuals are suspicious of change since inevitably it involves different actions and practices than those with which they are currently familiar. Change is a `black box` that needs to be unlocked with care! The course invoves participants working on their own specific change events and creating plans and procedures which will help smooth their change processes through group and individual feedback, exercises, formal inputs etc.
Prerequisites:
Participants may be anyone seeking to deal with change in their working environment and will generally be facing a number of specific scenarios which they wish to explore and develop during the training programme.
Recognising Change:
- Setting the context of change
- Effects of change
Analysing a Current (or recent) Change:
- Apply a Force Field Analysis to the change situation
- Identify current state against the six key implementation activities
Drivers for Change:
- Examine each activity against dimensions of power, information, winners and losers
- Create an action plan for unblocking resistance
Change and Individuals:
- Transition Curve
- Significance of `Anchors`
- Stress and Change
Change and views of Organisations:
- Mechanistic Change
- Organic Change
- Other Options
Successful Change Management:
- Draw upon successes and learn from failures in the successful management of change
- Checklist of successful change
Successful Change:
- Identify key elements in sustaining change
- Create challenges to sustain positive spirit of change
- Produce personal action plans