Managing Transitions - Leading the People Side of Change

Overview:

Understanding how change affects people is one of the most important factors in successfully implementing changes of all sizes. This engaging, hands-on workshop will furnish you with dozens of practical techniques and tools to help you and your employees prepare for, deal, with, and make the most of change.

When you think about how difficult it is to change yourself, you realize how difficult it is to change someone else, let alone a team or organization. The fact that we undergo so much change, that we are expected to drive positive change, and that change can be so stressful and messy, makes “managing transitions” a crucial work and life skill. In addition to receiving a toolkit of useful practices, we will learn by doing, i.e., we will do real transition management work together in the workshop. If you can help yourself and your employees better deal with change, you will all become more flexible and adaptable, suffer less stress from change, and generate results more consistently.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completing this course, you should be able to:

• Understand the psychological and emotional impact of change
• Help yourself and others better prepare for, deal with, and make the most of change
• Take care of yourself and others during rapid and constant change 
• Increase your effectiveness at dealing with employee resistance to change
• Reduce stress and conflict during change 
• Maintain employee morale, focus, and productivity during change 

 Who Will Benefit:

Leaders at all levels and professionals who manage change projects or who are being affected by major organizational change.