Change management




Change Management Planning growth and change Successful Change Management through Emotional Intelligence Culture Change Personality Type Strategic Change Coaching / Mentoring Planning growth and change We're all familiar with the feeling that the environment has changed, people and approaches may seem in need of being refreshed; but how can we agree vision and objectives; what has to happen, and what are the priorities? We need to move forward: but what vision will inspire and motivate staff? what are the priorities for change? what is important to retain? how to make it happen? who needs to be involved? how can we achieve all this with limited time and effort? Objective: Reach agreement on where we are now. Understand what needs to change and why. (for example: culture, activities, relationships, organisation) Agree the timescale and activities likely to produce the change. Commit to a plan for action - or at least what needs to be done to achieve this. Workshop content This will depend on the situation at the start of the workshop. For example, it may be helpful to understand the current culture(s), before trying to initiate change. An early activity may be to quickly map the current culture, if this has not already been done. As another example, change is normally encouraged, enabled or constrained by the key personalities and their interaction. It may be important to gain early insight into the sort of personality-type issues which may help or hinder change. (You can choose whether or not you use this activity within the workshop as an opportunity for personal growth). The environment of the change will be mapped out, and the degree of consensus established on: vision for the future the nature and extent of the change the ways by which the change is to be achieved Successful Change Management through Emotional Intelligence A 2-Day Course designed to enable you to develop and deliver effective change management Learn how to develop and deliver successful change management Participants develop their change management skills through a highly interactive workshop. Participants take away an action plan for initiating an effective change management programme in their organisation. Learn How To : Map out exactly where you want to go – outputs, behaviours, culture Measure the gap between now and where you want to be Develop comprehensive levers for change Overcome common obstacles to effective change Plan an effective programme for change Address key people criteria crucial to the success of change programmes Often change programmes stumble because key people criteria are not addressed. This Two Day Course includes tools for dealing with the most common reasons for failure – people. Culture Change Defining your current culture and identifying how to move forward Developing your culture You know when you're comfortable with the way an organisation or voluntary group "feels", and you know when it doesn't seem right. But it can be hard to define this, and harder still to make changes to it. A culture development workshop enables you to hold up a mirror to your organisation, and agree what makes it different. Workshop participants have found it very helpful to see the real culture ("as is") in words and to recognise what they like about it. You can then see how to strengthen what you like, and to fill the gaps to provide the culture that you really want. Leaders of groups may find this process challenging, but will find that the insights gained will be of enormous help in their development of their leadership capability. Objective: Understand how to identify culture Reach agreement on the culture as is Explore how the culture may need to develop and change Consider how to achieve the culture change Workshop content Mapping culture; components of culture Difference between culture and vision Current culture Reconciling different views on culture Matching culture to external environment Possible changes Achieving cultural change - which actions produce which effects TAKING IT FORWARD Many organisations find the following: This process will not invent problems or discord. Where there are problems (every organisation has them) it will make them more visible, give you ways of talking about them, and hence allow any discussion about them to. What there is to act upon, and what you do about it, is up to you. Personality Type Understand what you need for your team to grow as individuals and work together with more synergy. Understanding yourself and others Why is it so hard to make real changes in your life - and what can you do about it? Why is it other people have different approaches, and we can't see eye to eye? What gets in the way of reaching agreement and taking action? Why do we sometimes keep struggling with issues that some others take in their stride? Be more in tune: with colleagues, with your partner, with your children This workshop can give you an initial understanding of personality-type^[1] and of how this knowledge can empower change.^[2] Objective: Understand personality types Understand the gifts and contribution of each personality type to the whole team Understand the possibilities (and challenges) of personal change from a personality-type perspective Recognise new ways to tackle problematic situations Workshop content Introduction to personality type Exercises to understand personality-type Pointers for further exploration Personality-type and problem-solving Exploration of personal growth constraints and options - path to wisdom and emotional intelligence? We also now run a public 2-day course on Better Projects by understanding personality-type (click for more details) Note: We subscribe fully to the ethics policy of the Centre for Applications of Psychological Type. Ultimately participants assess for themselves their own personality-type, and the results of any questionnaire are given only to the participant. In a team workshop, participants may agree to discuss their personality-type within the workshop. Strategic Change Coaching / Mentoring Depending on the scale, scope, nature and speed of the change required, major changes can be managed as either a single change project, or as a major change programme (essentially, a combination of projects, in which the considerations in our "Programme Management" services section apply.) In either case, we will be pleased to act as your strategic change coach. We will help you to Map out exactly where you want to go – outputs, behaviours, culture Measure the gap between now and where you want to be Develop comprehensive levers for change Overcome common obstacles to effective change Plan an effective programme for change Address key people criteria crucial to the success of change programmes "In my youth, my imagination had no limits. I dreamed of changing the world. But as I grew older and wiser, I found that the world would not change, so I decided to change my country. But it, too, seemed immovable. So, as I grew into my twilight years, in one last attempt, I settled for changing my family; but alas they would have none of it. Now on my deathbed I realise that - if I had only first changed myself, then by example, I might have changed my family, and through my family changed my country, through my country changed the world." - inscribed on the tomb of a bishop in Westminster Abbey^[3] We believe in personal change as a start-point for change elsewhere. Do you? If so, call us! [1] The phrase “personality-type” is used here to refer to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)., which is a registered trademark of Consulting Psychologists Press Inc. Myers Briggs Type Indicator™ and MBTI™ are trademarks of Consulting Psychologists Press Inc; in Europe these trademarks are licensed to OPP Ltd. Actalpha personality-type workshops are led by one or more qualified assessors of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator ® who have signed up to the OPP Ltd code of ethics for the use of the MBTI ® assessment. [Go back] [2] It is easy to be discouraged by personality-type theory if it is taught - incorrectly - in a deterministic way (in other words “you will always react this way because of your personality-type”) . We fundamentally agree with the Centre for Applications of Psychological Type in viewing a knowledge of personality-type as empowering, not constraining. [Go back] [3] (and thanks for this quote to "The Word for Today" by United Christian Broadcasters Feb-April 2001, PO Box 255, Stoke on Trent, ST4 8YY, England, website www.ucb.co.uk. UCB ask, if we quote from their work, that we make known the UCB address and make clear that free copies of their daily Bible notes are available from them). [Go back]