Course Methodology
From the outset, participants are requested to come prepared with
transformational business challenges they are currently facing. Throughout the
course they are guided through the course content and material, and coached on
how to use relevant tools, business cases, and strategic models and concepts.
Ultimately, they will produce a transformational business plan they can
present, share and discuss with their teams upon their return, and prepare the
grounds for the next steps in leading a transformational change within their
organizations.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Build awareness and understanding
about the significance of transformational change
- Select a team of key managers and
opinion formers who will drive the desired change
- Generate acceptance across the
organization towards the overall process of transformation
- Maintain strong and open channels
of communication around the transformational journey
- Formulate and execute a strategic
plan toward implementing transformational change
Target Audience
Leaders, heads of departments, managers, supervisors, project managers,
change agents and sponsors and all those involved in driving transformational
change
Target Competencies
- Leading change
- Planning for change
- Communicating change
- Implementing change plans
- Managing conflicts
- Emotional intelligence
- Evaluating cost associated with change
- Leading and managing teams
- Creative thinking and problem solving
- Motivating employees
Understanding transformational change
- Transformational change versus change management
- Prerequisites for transformational change – the
Beckhard approach
- Approaches to transformational change
- Transforming through the different transitional
phases
- Measuring the intensity and the need to transform
Establishing the foundation for transformational change
- Characteristics and capabilities of
transformational leaders
- Key factors in effective change management
- The battle between leadership and the status quo
- The psychological contract
- The emotional competence framework
The transformational change model
- The model and the intended results
- The process behind the model
- The model and the desired leadership
characteristics to succeed
- Creating the climate for transformational change
- Engaging and enabling the organization
- Implementing and sustaining
- Working through the resistance
- The ongoing process of transformational change
- Insights from transformational leaders
Communicating transformational change
- The role of the leader
- Communicating with a purpose
- Analyzing and understanding the needs of the
stakeholders
- The fundamentals of communicating transformational
change
- Measuring the effectiveness of the communication
plan
- The transformational change communication playbook
Formulating and executing the transformational strategic plan
- What matters most when executing transformational
strategic plans
- Fundamental traits of organizational effectiveness
- The building blocks of executing transformational
strategic plans
- Decision rights
- Information
- Structure
- Motivators
- Mapping improvement to the building blocks
- Test driving the execution plan
- Delivering the results and measuring success
- Looking ahead
Personal Action Plan
