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Change Management

The purpose of this course is enable business leaders to anticipate, strategically direct and manage the emotional impact of change on people in order to become a master rather than a victim of change. 

Course Benefits

After completing this course, participants would be able to:

  • Understand the nature of change in the business environment 

  • Understand different forms of change in the business environment 

  • Understand the emotional impact of change on themselves and other people 

  • Understand why people have a natural resistance to change 

  • Develop emotional intelligence to manage resistance to change 

  • Analyse behavioural patterns caused by change 

  • Reflect on and acknowledge their own resistance to change 

  • Develop openness for personal change 

  • Identify and acknowledge own dysfunctional behavioural patterns 

  • Commit themselves to authentic behavioural change 

  • Develop leadership versatility to manage change with employees at different levels of empowerment 

  • Facilitate effective leadership change management interventions 

  • Engage effectively with employees during each of 7 phases of change 

  • Become a master rather than a victim of change 

Course Admin

Assessments and analysis:

Individual and Team openness assessment

Duration: 3 days

Dates: To be agreed upon with customer

Facilitator: Dr Niel Rall

Venue: To be agreed upon with customer

For facilitator details:

visit www.leadershipdynamics.co.za

Enquiries: Dr Niel Rall on 082 455 1093

Email: admin@leadershipdynamics.co.za

Part 1

Orientation to Change Management

  • Change forces shaping the business environment in the 4IR 

  • The realities of change in the business environment 

  • Fundamental and incremental change 

  • Business and emotional impact of change 

  • Typical organisational responses to change 

  • Team dynamics in change management 

  • Typical personal and team responses to change 

  • The need for change management 

  • Change management approaches and strategies 

  • The role of leadership in Change Management 

Part 2

Emotional Intelligence in Change Management

  • The emotional impact of change on people 

  • Natural emotional responses to change 

  • The impact of cognitive dissonance on change 

  • Dysfunctional behaviour patterns during change 

  • Managing the emotional impact of change 

  • Creating emotional openness for change 

  • The openness value structure 

  • Analysing team and individual openness levels for change 

  • Reflective openness for change 

  • Interactive openness for change 

  • Structural openness for change 

  • Developing an openness culture for change 

  • Emotional intelligence in behavioural change 

  • Authentic behavioural change 

Part 3

Developing agility to manage personal change

  • Managing the impact of own personality on personal change

  • Emotional forces resisting personal change 

  • Dysfunctional behavioural patterns during change processes 

  • Developing agility for personal change 

  • Facilitating authentic personal behavioural change 

  • Recognising and admitting own dysfunctional behaviours 

  • Committing to personal behavioural change 

  • Developing an emotionally supportive culture for personal change 

Part 4

Change management leadership

  • Managing changes in leadership 

  • Developing leadership versatility to manage change 

  • Creating a common vision and alignment of purpose 

  • The role of leadership communication in change management 

  • Involving people in the change process 

  • Enrolling people in change management 

  • Empowering leadership in change management 

  • Developing an innovative organisational culture 

Part 5

Managing Transitional phases of change

  • Recognising and managing denial of the need for change 

  • Understanding and managing resistance to change 

  • Assisting people to internalise the need for change 

  • Helping people to explore options and benefits of change 

  • Developing commitment and ownership of change 

  • Supporting people to promote change 

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