Change Leadership

About the course – Change Leadership

As change becomes more common, fast-paced and complex, the ability to adapt to and manage technical and organizational change has become a critical competency. Whether the change involves strategy redeployment, organizational restructuring, merging operations, expanding into new markets, or adopting new technology, managers who have an understanding of the dynamics of change are better equipped to analyze the factors at play in their own particular circumstances, and to adopt practical strategies to deal with resistance. This workshop will help managers deal with change and provide strategies to bring back to their employees.

Topics

  • The Change Cycle
  • Change principles
  • Implementing change for new initiatives
  • Communicating, measuring and sustaining change
  • Dealing with resistance
  • Strategies for dealing with change
  • Making the case, visions for change
  • Roles in change management

Who should attend

Technical professionals and general managers.

No prior knowledge is necessary; however, participants should be familiar with or have experience and responsibility for managing change.

Learning outcomes

As a result of attending this program, participants will:

  • Understand the capabilities afforded by new processes as well as the organizational requirements to make them successful
  • Take on leaders’ responsibilities with respect to change implementations
  • Evaluate the challenges posed by new processes through anticipation of the implications from multiple stakeholder perspectives
  • Develop strategies for responding appropriately to various responses to change