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Course Name Taking Charge of Organizational Change
  This course introduces a framework and process for implementing and managing organizational change, from identifying the changes, through planning, and into implementation.
   
Course Duration 3 Days
   
Course Description

This course is designed to provide participants with opportunities to apply their knowledge and skills and to try out new techniques in a realistic case study addressing organizational change. Participants will have the opportunity to apply core concepts to a specific problem or opportunity from their own business environment.

Course Objectives:

1. Lead and champion organizational change

2. Use a change-leadership framework to implement sustainable change in your organization

3. Identify roles in the change process

4. Assess the implications of change on —
     • Leadership
     • Organizational development
     • Individuals

5. Help others to adapt and adjust to organizational change

6. Apply coping strategies to facilitate transition through change


PDUs: 22.5

   
Course Outline

Introduction

• Welcome
• Course logistics and scope
• ESI’s Mindset Model

1. What Is Change?

• Organizational change
• Desired and undesired effects of change
• Response to change
• Resistance to change
• Implications of resistance
• ESI’s Framework for Change Model

2. Personalizing Your Role as Change Agent

• Core Values Inventory™ personality types related to change
• Champions of change
• Obstacles to change
• Change management and stress management

3. Identifying the Need for Organizational Change

• Reasons for change
• Gap analysis
• “AS IS” and “TO BE”
• Change process overview
• Case for change template

4. Engaging Support: Leadership, Vision, and Communication

• Framework for change
• Compelling vision for change
• Choosing a strategy for change
• Planning the change
• Measures and mileposts
• Organizational readiness requirements
• Sponsorship and support
• Critical roles in the change process
• Engaging stakeholder support
• Change management communication strategy
• ESI’s Communication Planning Process

5. Implementing the Change: Human Transitions and Organization Alignment

• Organizational alignment concerns
• Leader’s focus: change and transition
• Leader’s responsibilities for transition
• Coaching and supporting transition
• Organizational model for sustainable change
• Changing a business process overview
• Changing a business process: options and recommendations
• Barriers and obstacles to sustainable change
• Tips for addressing obstacles to change
• Implementation planning tips

   
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