Why Attend This Training Course?

Change is a constant in many of our lives. All around technologies, processes, people, ideas, methods, and us often change, affecting the way we perform daily tasks and live our lives. This program will give any leader tools to implement changes more smoothly and to have those changes better accepted. This workshop will also give all participants an understanding of how change is implemented and some tools for managing their reactions to change.

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What Is The Training Course Methodology?

This training course methodology depends on enabling participants to interact and exchange experiences, explore their competencies and achieve their career aspirations, using forward-thinking training arts, such as theoretical lectures and/or open discussion to exchange opinions and experiences, scenarios, innovative thinking brainstorming. Participants will receive an agenda including training material as a reference, in addition to some extra notes and booklets. 

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Who Should Attend This Training Course?

This training course is designed for:

•  Middle and Senior Managers

• Head of departments and supervisors

• All those interested in planning, evaluating and improving performance

• Public Relations and personnel working in institutions both public and private sectors

• Governmental departments staff who are involved in applying e-government, and management development

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What Are The Training Course Objectives?

• List the steps necessary for preparing a change strategy and building support for the change

• Describe the WIFM – the individual motivators for change

• Identify the concept of corporation change management and the areas targeted by the business organizations

• Use needed components to develop a change management and communications plans, and to list implementation strategies

• Identify the corporate change planning stages and its strategies and approaches

• Employ strategies for gathering data, addressing concerns and issues, evaluating options and adapting a change direction

• Utilize methods for leading change project status meetings, celebrating a successful change implementation, and sharing the results and benefits

• Describe the four states of Appreciative Inquiry, its purposes, and sample uses in case studies

• Identify leadership role in the corporation change management process

• Use strategies for aligning people with a change, appealing to emotions and facts

• Describe the importance of resiliency in the context of change, and employ strategies the change leader and individual change participant can use to foster resiliency

• Explain the importance of flexibility in the context of change, and demonstrate methods the change leader and individual change participant can use to promote flexibility

• Identify leadership role in resistance to change process and methods of dealing with it

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What Is The Training Course Curriculum?

Basic Concepts in the Corporate Change Management

• Concept of change management and managing corporate change

• Importance, objectives, and tasks of change management

• Driving forces for change at organizations

• Methods of managing change

• The areas targeted by the change at the organization

• Stages of the change process

• Types and forms of change

• Preparing for change

  • Defining your strategy

  • Build the team

• Identifying the WIFM

  • What’s in it for me?

  • Building support

  • Don’t judge

• Redirects and guidelines index to manage change effectively

Process of Planning and Implementation Corporate Change

• Understanding change

  • Influences on change

  • Common reactions to change

  • Tools to help the change process

• Leading and managing the change

  • Preparing and planning

  • Delegating

  • Keep the lines of communication open

  • Coping with pushback

• Five Stages of change

  • Stage I: Recognition of the need for change and its importance (Use of SWOT & PEST analysis)

  • Stage II: Set a strategy for change

  • Stage III: Identifying and designing alternatives / change approaches and work streams

  • Stage IV: Implementation of the change process

  • Stage V: Evaluate and modify the process of change

 Leadership Role in Corporate Change Management

• Leadership (Concept, importance, elements, attributes)

• Gaining support

  • Gathering data

  • Addressing concerns and issues

  • Evaluating and adopting

• Making it all worthwhile

  • Leading status meetings

  • Celebrating successes

  • Sharing the results and benefits

• Using appreciative inquiry

  • The four stages

  • The purposes of appreciative inquiry

  • Examples and case studies

• Leading change (Concept, importance, aspects, dimension)

• Role of transformational leadership in managing the change process 

Leadership towards the Resistance of Corporate Change

•  Resistance to change (Concept and Reasons)

• Bringing people to your side

  • A dash of emotion

  • Plenty of facts

• Forms of workers response to change process and methods of dealing with it

• Managing cultural change (give a commitment to change)

• Cost and return of change

• Open discussion

Building Resiliency

• What is resiliency?

• Why is it important?

• Five easy steps for the leader and the individual

• Building flexibility

  • What is flexibility?

  • Why is it important?

  • Five easy steps for the leader and the individual

• Wrapping up: Open discussion