Change Mastery - Taking Charge of Change

It is no longer an option; the demands of globalization, unrelenting change, and competition require more than business “smarts” and experience. This 21st century reality demands that individuals and organizations have the resiliency to master the turbulence of changing and shifting social, economic and technological forces.

“We are living in an age of turbulence. When companies are being challenged to change more profoundly, and more rapidly, than ever before.”
                                       - Gary Hamel, The Quest for Resiliency

Your response to change can either make you a winner or it can threaten you and your company’s ability to sustain itself. The Center for Creative Leadership found that the inability to adjust to change is the primary reason why 75% of all leaders lose their jobs. The consequences for organizations are equally serious. The disruption caused by change can strain and disrupt a company’s performance and its relationship with employees, customers, suppliers and Wall Street.

The Taking Charge of Change program is comprised of two modules designed to provide individuals and organizations with a comprehensive understanding of the below the surface issues and factors that impact change readiness, change hardiness and change mastery.

The history of most change efforts is dismal and the list of those started but did not finish (DNF’s) is long. The reasons are many, but there is one force factor that is essential to all change efforts and it is best described by a quote from Dean Ornish, MD, “People don’t resist change; they resist being changed.” The one force that is underestimated in change efforts is the human force.

Change efforts seldom fail because of the IQ effort dedicated to the process; they fail because of the lack of understanding of the emotional dynamics of change. John Kotter, PhD, an expert on change and the author of The Heart of Change, says “Changing organizations depends overwhelmingly on changing the emotions of their individual members.”

Taking Charge of Change takes participants below the surface and helps them learn and apply the art and science of change readiness, hardiness and mastery.