The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Short training courses

Content of Navigating Change - gaining buy-in and taking charge

DAY 1


Lessons from previous waves of change

  • forces for change: what’s going on in the big wide world?
  • why is change necessary? What’s your role?
  • the Change Equation

Human reactions to change

  • trying out your business case for change: how did the stakeholder react?
  • the buy-in curve: emotions, the brain, defensiveness, negative reactions, individual needs
  • recovering performance

Managing endings

  • the timeline technique: individual and groups, letting go of baggage, holding on to what matters
  • emotional intelligence: making change sustainable, looking after yourself and others


DAY 2


 

Releasing and focusing the energy


 

Thinking outside the box

  • breakthrough thinking: change without stress and imagining the future
  • your change project plan

 

Conversations to engage people

  • including the heart and the passion: what do you want to create?
  • working through resistance: methods to achieve contact and responsibility-taking

Mobilising the wider organisation

  • organisational politics: tops, front-liners and hams
  • Kotter’s biggest mistakes and the eight steps
  • stakeholder analysis: who to involve?
  • mobilising teams and follow-through: quick wins, measuring, communicating, rewarding, re-visioning

Action planning and feedback.