Coping with Change

Today, change is the rule – not the exception. Whether it’s your personal, professional, or organisational life, change is coming more rapidly than ever before. It can leave your head spinning and your stomach churning.

To thrive in times like these, people need to change their perspective. They need to remember that all progress is the result of change. Without making some changes, taking some risks, they may not grow, succeed, or even survive as a person or as an organisation.

However people also need to enhance their skills. Leaders need the tools for creating an environment that is conducive to change, an environment that encourages mutual trust, creative ideas and innovation. Everyone needs to leave their comfort zones, take intelligent risks, and implement new and better approaches.

Whether you’re a leader or a team member, this programme will give you the tools you need to take charge of change. You can expect to gain insights, learn skills, be involved, have fun, and get results.

OBJECTIVES:

  • To outline and understand the reasons we resist change and risk taking
  • To learn strategies that overcome resistance to change
  • To build a positive attitude towards change
  • To understand the dynamics of change, what works and doesn’t work
  • To make constructive risk taking a larger part of one’s personal and professional life
  • To master a process that helps people accept, lead, or implement change

SAMPLE PROGRAMME OUTLINE

UNDERSTANDING CHANGE

  • Knowing the seven prerequisites to positive change
  • Identifying seven blocks to change
  • Determining four phases of change
  • Describing effective responses to the four phases
  • Outlining five negative emotional reactions to change

BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS TO CHANGE

  • Selling the need for change
  • Helping others let go of the past
  • Challenging resistance
  • Communicating endlessly
  • Involving people in forums
  • Providing support and training

LEADING CHANGE

  • Implanting a vision
  • Firing up commitment to and ownership of change
  • Reinvigorating a change-weary workforce
  • Facilitating change without intimidation
  • Taking people through phases of change
  • Removing rules that stifle innovation
  • Serving as an example
  • Avoiding organisational implementation blunders

GETTING YOURSELF TO CHANGE

  • Costs of the comfort zone
  • Adopting an appropriate risk style
  • Evaluating the advisability of a risk
  • Taking the five risks of high performers
  • Learning to be flexible, proactive and resilient
  • Managing seven troubling reactions to change