This course is all about the importance of change and how to adapt to it. Change is a constant that happens quite often whether in the life of a student or corporate employee.

Change is a constant in our lives. All around us, technologies, processes, people, ideas, and methods often change, affecting the way we perform daily tasks and live our lives. This workshop will give any leader tools to implement changes more smoothly and to have those changes better accepted. This workshop will also give all participants an understanding of how change is implemented and some tools for managing their reactions to change.

Course Objectives / Goals

Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, the learning occurs more easily and rapidly. With that in mind, let’s review our goals for today.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

·        List the steps necessary for preparing a change strategy and building support for the change

·        Describe the WIFM – the individual motivators for change

·        Use needed components to develop a change management and communications plans, and to list implementation strategies

·        Employ strategies for gathering data, addressing concerns and issues, evaluating options and adapting a change direction

·        Utilize methods for leading change project status meetings, celebrating a successful change implementation, and sharing the results and benefits

·        Describe the four states of Appreciative Inquiry and its purposes

·        Use strategies for aligning people with a change, appealing to emotions and facts

·        Describe the importance of resiliency in the context of change, and employ strategies the change leader and individual change participant can use to foster resiliency

·        Explain the importance of flexibility in the context of change, and demonstrate methods the change leader and individual change participant can use to promote flexibility