Executive Program in Leading Sustainable Strategic Change
A complete list of topics for this 5-day program.
Exploring The Nature Of Leading Successful Change Initiatives
Successful change requires leadership – the capacity in the organization for someone to step forward, articulate their vision of the future and move toward that future. This session will build your leadership capacity to lead new business initiatives.
- Effective Change Approaches
- Explore models of leadership and your organization’s style of leadership
- Explore your leadership story and develop your capacity to lead
- Develop your leadership brand and your orientation toward change.
Apply Your New Learning Tools:
- Your personal brand
- Your Leadership Narrative
Day 2
Developing Your Capacity for Change
Change initiatives require leaders who create compelling visions for the future. This session explores tools and techniques for presenting your plan and engaging your team to commit to action.
- Building the Business Case for Change and Creating a Compelling Vision.
- Defining the value proposition of your change
- Understanding the nature of change and its 3 key challenges
- Framing the scope of change
- Challenging the status quo: framing and reframing and strategic analysis
Apply Your New Learning Tools:
- Vision Mapping
- Framing the Scope of Change
Day 3
Managing The Transition
Successful change leadership enables others to act. This session helps you evaluate change alternatives, assign key stakeholder roles and manage resistance.
- Uncovering Obstacles and Developing Strategies to Address Them
- Evaluating your change alternatives
- Identifying and aligning key stakeholders
- Identifying critical roles to support successful change
- Managing resistance and risk
- Stakeholder analysis and framing
Apply Your New Learning Tools:
- Stakeholder analysis and framing
- Reframing change through multiple lenses
Day 4
The Computer Simulation – GlobalTech
As a powerful applied learning tool, this course will employ a computer simulation which will provide a hands-on experience with the change process. Participants will work to diagnose, design, implement and measure a change initiative.
- Try out your newly acquired tools and techniques, and receive feedback (in terms of buy-in and budget) on your plan
- See a change from start to finish
- Experience leading a strategic change initiative with a workforce that does not share the sense of urgency or vision
- Establish budget and buy-in requirement that measures success in real-time
Apply Your New Learning Tools:
- The simulation is foundational for the course, giving you the opportunity to work in groups on a common problem.
- Additionally, we will look at change initiatives that participants are leading and apply our learning to move these initiatives forward.
Day 5
Integrating, Engaging and Moving Forward
The course wrap-up lets you establish next steps. Identifying critical success factors for leading and managing sustainable change within your organizational structure.
- Leading, managing, transitioning – the critical elements of sustainable change
- Ensuring alignment among the people, processes and purpose
- Developing your personal leadership development plan
- Developing your organizational change plan
- Maintaining and fostering sustainability
- Agile and organizational change
