• One-Day Course

    6 Hours
    of training

  • 6 to 20 Participants

    6 to 20
    participants from
    your organization

  • On-Site or Virtual

    On-Site at your
    place of business or
    Virtual via Zoom / Teams

Alleviate your team’s stress and anxiety to change. 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

For most leaders, helping people to accept, adjust to, and adopt change is stressful and time consuming. However, managing people’s concerns and issues about change increases buy-in and helps make the change stick.

This workshop provides practical tools and tips from a senior change management practitioner. Participants will learn a step-by-step methodology for enabling the people impacted by change to successfully transition from the current to the future work situation or environment.

Participants will also discover ways to communicate in a way that builds acceptance and minimizes resistance.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

  • Senior managers responsible for change
  • Middle managers who need to make change happen
  • Internal change leads and HR professionals
  • Project Managers

YOU WILL LEARN TO:

  • Understand how people feel and react to change
  • Remove the barriers to change acceptance and buy-in
  • Assess how changes impact different groups/stakeholders
  • Help people move up the Change Curve
  • Establish a Change Champion Network
  • Communicate using our 4-box model
  • Conduct employee input and engagement sessions
  • Ensure organizational and work process readiness
  • Ensure follow through and sustain change initiatives

COURSE OUTLINE

Change Buy-In Challenges

  • Examine what gets in the way of change
  • Understand organizational change history
  • Identify the end goal of successful change

Understand Why People Resist Change

  • Explore why people react negatively to change
  • Learn what helps them to get on-board
  • Determine who are the early adopters, fence sitters and resisters

Move People Up the Change Adoption Curve

  • Understand the 5 steps in the Change Adoption Curve
  • Change strategies and tools
  • Change plans and resourcing

Stakeholder Change Impact Analysis

  • Identify the impacted stakeholders
  • Assess how the change impacts people
  • Develop strategies to manage the impacts 

Develop a Change Champion Network

  • Select work group Change Champions
  • Orient and clarify the role of Change Champions
  • Conduct regular ongoing update and feedback meetings

Communicate Frequent Updates

  • Apply a Change-Stability communications framework
  • Determine your key audiences, messages and mediums
  • Create two-way communication forums and opportunities

Facilitate Change Engagement Sessions

  • Different ways to engage employees
  • Identify employee issues and needs
  • Respond proactively and remove barriers

Ensure Organizational Readiness

  • Identify policy, process, and methods changes
  • Identify employee skill development needs and training
  • Assess readiness to implement a change

Sustain Your Change Effort – Make it Stick!

  • Critical change activities post implementation
  • Develop an implementation support plan
  • Develop a change integration and sustainment plan

METHODOLOGY

This full-day workshop is highly interactive involving participants in individual and group activities and discussions.

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