Planning and Facilitating Organizational Change

Objectives:

Competitive pressures require human resources professionals and business leaders to change their organizations to improve performance. These organizations want the change to be done to minimize individual and organizational stress, while maximizing efficiency and productivity. Often a change agent is designated to plan and facilitate the change. This two-day workshop will provide those individuals with the skills needed to make change happen successfully by enabling participants to:

• Understand the nature of individual and organizational change
• Identify major issues involved in organizational change
• Plan a major change strategy
• Facilitate the organizational change

Topics:

• How to assess the need for change
• Understanding change as it impacts the individual
• Evaluating the means, impact, and influence of the change
• The pros and cons of different change strategies
• Planning to bring about change smoothly
• Mapping the steps of the change process
• Your attitude and how it affect implementation efforts
• A key change-agent skill: facilitation
• Creating a change/transition support team
• Techniques to help manage transitional states
• Developing a communication strategy
• Dealing with resistance to change
• Why most change efforts fail

Who Will Benefit?

Human resources professionals and line managers with responsibility for designing and guiding a change process in their organizations.