Helping Your Team Navigate Change

This session is an interactive and experiential workshop that focuses on building personal and team capacity to deal with change on a personal level.

Gain a greater awareness of the similarities and differences in the ways that individuals use to cope with change. Using this knowledge, learn strategies for managing self and others through the change process. These techniques will equip you with the skills to successfully manage people through the emotional aspects of organizational change.

Is it right for me?

This course is especially designed for supervisors and front line managers who are responsible for helping others in the organization respond to and drive change. It focuses on dynamics of self management, as well as the skills leaders need to guide a team through a period of change.

What will I learn?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Explain the purpose and impact of effective change management in the context of: me, we, work, world.
• Identify the various types of change that occur in organizations.
• Gain an awareness of typical emotional responses to change.
• Understand your own emotional reaction to change and how this can impact how you manage others through change.
• Recognize that there is often a typical journey of change and learn how to gauge where you and your colleagues may be in this cycle.
• Develop strategies to overcome fears, break patterns and remove barriers to effective organizational transformation.
• Set directives to motivate and enable employees to carry out change.
• Create an environment that allows people to respond positively to change.

What will it cover?

Purpose of Nature and Change

• Impact of effective change management

Types of Change

• Different types of change
• Impact of change
• Mapping changes

The Change Curve

• Recognize where your team is
• Strategies for managing your own change

Individual Response to Change

• Social styles and the pressures of change
• Social styles questionnaire and analysis
• Mapping social styles onto the change curve

Mapping social styles onto the change curve

• Analyze styles through the change curve

Create the Environment for Successful Change

• The importance of trust
• Communicating change

Action Planning

Further courses to consider...

• Managing Stress
• Resilience
• Release the Pressure