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 21stcentury reality demands that individuals and organizations have the resiliency to master the turbulence and chaos 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 estimates 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 started but did not finishers (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 put into 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.

Program Design:

Taking Charge of Change is targeted for executive and management personnel. It is comprised of two modules:

• Module One: Personal and Professional Change Readiness, Hardiness and Mastery
• Module Two: Organizational Change Readiness, Hardiness and Mastery

Each module is designed as a one-day program that builds upon the previous module. Although each module can stand alone as a one-day program, participants are better equipped to implement a change project after completing both modules. The program content is delivered using our “3D” Model of learning:

• Discovery
• Development
• Deployment

As a participant in the Taking Change of Change program you will:

• If you, your team and organization are ready for change
• If you are change hardy
• Why Change requires leadership
• Why and how emotions rule change efforts
• Why managing energy is more important than managing time
• Why trust is the emotion that rules change

Develop:

• A vision that engages your human resources
• Skills and tools to address change readiness
• Critical renewal and resiliency skills to strengthen your change hardiness
• Your realistic optimism
• Listening skills to help assess when to push, pull and reassess

Deploy:

• Your vision of change
• Listening sessions to assess readiness, progress and problems
• A plan of small wins to build confidence and skill
• Yourself. Be visible, show your interest, give appreciation and debrief the wins and setbacks for learning.

Are you ready for change?
Are you ready for a positive change experience?
Can you afford not to be?

It’s your decision, you can either by a DNF or you can Take Charge of Change and become a Master of Change.