Using the best principles of Accelerated Learning, this workshop engages, stimulates and educates the learner in a way that ensures retention and application of knowledge is maximised. The learning objectives for this programme are as follows:
Understand and adapt your own leadership style in the context of changeLearn principles and strategies for leading the emotional side of change (individual vs corporate aspects of change) Understand and use a process and toolkit for leading the change process Create a personal & business action plan for a current or future change you are responsible for
Overview
Implementing a change effort means doing work in new ways. Even when the expected results of such a change are well understood and senior leadership has high levels of confidence in the outcomes of the change in business operations, there will be significant pushback by the forces of day-to-day operations.

Bottom-line: known routines tend to take formal and informal priority over new routines. This alone makes it difficult to implement changes even when they have the support of executive leadership.

Bottom line: when the work is new and the outcome is uncertain, one thing is certain; these projects get the least of our attention and effort when they compete with our need to accomplish our day-to-day operations.

The fact is that most management time and attention is focused on managing the present. We must maintain our competitive position today if we are to have the resources to invest in the future. That said - far too many leadership teams put all their eggs in today’s basket at the expense of tomorrow. They fail to identify the talent needed for tomorrow and once they manage to secure the talent, what do they do with it?.

For “change-in-operations” (change) initiatives to be successful, new work practices must be integrated and refined until they are equally repeatable as existing work routines. In other words, “until this becomes the way we do things around here”. This leads us to “The Change Challenge.” The issue that most change programmes fail to address is all to do with implementation. The pertinent questions that have been asked time and again by organisations around the world......

“How do we modify the existing operations model to accommodate new work practices, processes and routines?”

“How do we intentionally create tomorrow while we simultaneously execute today’s business model?”

“How do we nurture the talent we have today to become more viable and productive for tomorrow; in particular the sales team?”

“How do we lead the plethora of changes required to make this business a success?’

Leading Change™ is a facilitated / interactive workshop experience for leaders in all organizations who are facing the challenge of implementing change, motivating their teams to do something new, increase the urgency and to think differently. Based on years of research from some of the world’s foremost thought-leaders, Leading Change™ (LC™) takes a refreshingly simple but highly effective look at the challenges change presents for managers and leaders alike. Not only that, it is highly engaging, informative and motivational. It gets people to do take action…NOW.

Using the best principles of Accelerated Learning, this workshop engages, stimulates and educates the learner in a way that ensures retention and application of knowledge is maximised. LC™ works by engaging leaders at all levels to become an active part of the change effort; to understand the principles of effective change and provide leadership and support necessary to make change stick. LC™ is based on the belief that leading change, when done right and supported at all levels, is not only a competitive advantage - it is a fun, meaningful and engaging way of life at work.

LEADING CHANGE™ WORKSHOP: Learning Outcome for Certification
Leaders of Change: Creating Change Leaders at all Levels

For Leaders developing key Change skills
Learning Outcomes:
Highly engaged and motivated teams.Individuals will want to take action and be responsible for taking action.Employees will have a high sense of urgency.Learn core Leadership and Management competencies.Understand and adapt your own leadership style in the context of change. Learn principles and strategies for leading the emotional side of change (individual vs corporate aspects of change).Understand and use a process and toolkit for leading the change process.Create a personal & business action plan for a current or future change you are responsible for.Apply an easy to use Change model to a current change focus. Build readiness for change by creating a high sense of urgency. Learn how to overcome the fear of change.Understand that people react differently to change.Help people feel more comfortable with change and understand change. Unleash leadership at all levels to build greater commitment to change. Understand habits and behaviours as they relate to change.Understand how to transition from where we are now to where we want to be.Apply the combination of leadership and management to optimise results.Identify unique individual strengths that produce greater results.Apply a simple change model to a specific change initiative. Understand the indicators of change progress within the Bridges (personal) and Kotter (business) models. Learn how intact teams accelerate change. Use a change scorecard to assess change readiness.Create an action plan to implement a given change.Develop a self-directed change leadership development plan.Understand change motivationsPassion driven changeIntellect driven changeStructure driven change Note: we believe that the more people embrace change, the easier change becomes, hence we define leaders at all levels because we believe that everyone in their own way is a leader and everyone can make a difference.

Workshop overview:
A short pre-reading work is highly recommended once you register.
     •using a story about a colony of penguins trapped on a melting iceberg
     •through highly engaging, interactive and stimulating facilitation methods that ensure full learner engagement.

Finally, delegates learn a process for leading the change journey using the 8-Step process for change developed by John Kotter. Once again, this is reinforced through activities and exercises linked to the story of penguins on a melting iceberg as well as relating the process steps to change in the delegates’ own organizations.

The workshop culminates with the completion of a Leading Change™ scorecard and action plan to capture the delegates’ learning and actions against all of the elements of the programme.

How do we do this?
Discovery learning – pre-work introduces concepts and the workshop draws out this information to develop skill and insights.
Activity based learning – engage participants in a series of exercises and activities to apply key learning to their current change focus.
Application based – results in a structured action plan to assign accountability for next steps and guide team activities.
Contextually relevant – real-life examples to build a common language for change.
Research Based – leverage the 30+ years of the top thought leaders’ applied research on Leadership and Change from Harvard Business School plus the experience of the facilitator who has worked in the corporate world for 25 years having held various senior executive positions.
Practical examples – Our Master Facilitator has had over 25 years of practical experience in the corporate world. We share these experiences with participants in the workshop.

Testimonials
"This is the most impactful training we have ever received...great for leadership initiatives, great for my sales team, great for general motivation and it got departments talking to each other."

"Thank you for delivering such a dynamic class. This was the best module in the MBA Leadership Programme"

"The learning was direct and practical with an immediate action plan to deploy. The sales, factory, accounts and the marketing teams are now working as one."

“All I can say is WOW - motivating, stimulating and practical. Why did we take so long to get you in here? I look forward to my team attending the next session.”

The best workshop I have ever attended, thank you. I can apply what I have learnt to my personal and professional life.

This is what leadership is all about… making things happen. Too often we sit in our offices and think about taking action. We do not take action. These past two days has moved me to take action. Thank you. Just the kick I needed, lots and lots of ideas. I loved your practical approach. Why not rebrand the workshop “Taking Action” ?