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Most change initiatives fail, and for similar reasons: 80% of companies use a top-down, minimal-involvement approach that ignores the concerns of the affected people.1
Leading People Through Change® instead approaches change as an opportunity for high-involvement, collaborative leadership that invites all parties into the change process. This inclusive approach draws on research on leading organizational change and our 30 years of experience in the field.
Recent research shows that a high-involvement approach that uses dialogue between change leaders and employees can increase change success by 34% to 58%, decrease implementation time by 33%, and increase employee engagement by 38%.1
1. Gartner, Changing Change Management.
Change in organizations is often disruptive. But we know how to get you from where you are to where you need to be.
Leading People Through Change teaches leaders throughout your organization how to lead successful change initiatives. Leaders learn how to identify and address employees’ predictable questions and resolve their concerns around change in the workplace to increase their buy-in and commitment.
We created Leading People Through Change based on our 30 years of change leadership consulting experience. The course also builds upon academic research that finds that people are less resistant to change when they have opportunities to share their concerns and receive the appropriate leadership.
Deliver Leading People Through Change in person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or in a self-directed online version, so your leaders can learn how to lead change effectively wherever they are and whenever they have time.
Leading People Through Change can be delivered as a one-day course. This program teaches your leaders how to identify and address stages of concern that employees go through when asked to change and how to use the appropriate change strategy and corresponding behaviors to address that concern. This high-involvement approach decreases the feeling of being controlled and builds momentum for change.
Prework: LAUNCH — Engaging prework assignments, including an assessment, that explain key concepts
Day 1: FRAME — Activities that introduce the Stages of Concern. Explore Information, Personal, and Implementation Concerns.
Day 1: BUILD — Activities based on personal work challenges that develop new skills and introduce the components of a Gap Statement. Share and discuss the sample Gap Statement.
Day 1: STRENGTHEN — Introduces the third leadership strategy: Strengthen. Discuss outcomes and conduct paired discussions about Strengthen leader actions.
Day 1: ENTRUST — Introduces the fourth leadership strategy: Entrust. Describe and discuss outcomes.
The Leading People Through Change course can be delivered as four 90- to 120-minute sessions to an intact team working on a specific change initiative, or in an open enrollment format to build change leadership capability across your organization.
The Leading People Through Change curriculum offers a 35-minnute fully asynchronous Overview that allow learners to form new skills. Participants work their way through engaging activities, including videos, interactive exercises, case studies, and quizzes.
The Leading People Through Change Online Overview is a 35-minute course that teaches essential skills like identifying and addressing employees’ predictable questions and resolving their concerns to increase their buy-in and commitment. Practice opportunities follow content, ensuring participants learn the concepts.
Set of micro-activities, including videos, interactions, and worksheets, that learners can access in moments of need to support ongoing learning, performance support, reinforcement, and custom learning journeys.
2. Harvard Business Review, Cracking the Code of Change.
Leaders who can uncover, diagnose, and address their people’s predictable concerns reduce resistance and increase commitment to the change.
Organizational change initiatives that are led effectively are supported by employees and realize results faster.
Successful companies champion the capacity to change as part of their culture and become more resilient and agile.
Contact us today to learn how we can help your leaders learn the skills they need to lead successful organizational change initiatives.
