Team Skills for Adapting to Change
Characteristics of today’s rapid change work environments
- How to make sense out of chaotic surroundings
- Identifying the environmental factors that lead to change
- Companies that excel at managing change and how they do it
- Assessing your effectiveness at responding to change
- Overcoming inertia and the inability to change as rapidly as your environment
- Key elements of the change process
The role of the leader in facilitating organizational change
- Creating a vision of what the desired change should be
- Thinking strategically about change
- Helping stakeholders work together towards change
- The important role of communication when leading a change effort
Managing organizational change efforts
- Â Spotting signs of change before they become unmanageable
- Analyzing your organization’s culture for responding to change
- Defining the roles of key players: champions, sponsors, agents and targets
- Strategies for improving your organization’s ability to adapt
- Developing an implementation plan for change across the entire organization
- How to deal effectively with resistance to change
- Skills needed to sustain a change effort
- Accelerating the change cycle
- New approaches to change: appreciative inquiry, real-time change, world cafe
Managing change in your work group
- 7 principles for successfully navigating your team through whitewater change
- Use a simple diagnostic tool to identify team blockages to change
- Criteria for selecting the best approach to implementing team change
- Steps to creating a more agile work group
- Developing team skills to handle a more challenging pace of change
- Getting other team members to buy into your change efforts
Increasing your personal ability to manage change
- Recognizing the six phases you experience during every change situation
- Personal characteristics that interfere with your ability to manage
- Making the transition from a win-lose to a win-win approach to change
- Leveraging small victories to achieve overall success
- Techniques to increase your mastery of responding to change skillfully
- In any change situation, you always have choices
- Developing an action plan for implementing a change effort