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Change Management
Planning growth and changeWe'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?
Objective:
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:
Successful Change Management through Emotional IntelligenceA 2-Day Course designed to enable you to develop and deliver effective change
management
Culture ChangeDefining 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:
Workshop content
TAKING IT FORWARD Many organisations find the following: This process will not invent problems or discord. Personality TypeUnderstand 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? This workshop can give you an initial understanding of personality-type[1] and of how this knowledge can empower change.[2] Objective:
Workshop content Introduction to personality type 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 / MentoringDepending 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
"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. [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] |
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