The Directing Organizations through Change program equips top leaders with the strategic insights and methods needed to guide their organizations through cultural change. By focusing on overcoming resistance, aligning teams, and driving momentum, this program provides practical tools to create a robust change strategy, navigate challenges, and inspire engagement at every level. This program empowers leaders to take charge, drive results, and achieve lasting, impactful transformation.
Purpose
āTo equip senior leaders with the knowledge and strategic insights necessary to set up a robust change project and direct a cultural transformation that sticks.
Who For
This program is tailored for senior leadership teams and key stakeholders who are responsible for initiating and directing cultural change efforts within their organization.
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Results Expected
By the end of the program, participants will have the knowledge and tools to:
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Develop a robust cultural change strategy and an actionable roadmap
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Develop a measurement system that guides the transformation and tracks progress
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Design a system to identify and eliminate inhibitors throughout the change process
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Define clear roles and expectations for leaders at every level
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Set up systems to support team leaders in guiding their teams through the change
The program will also:
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Strengthen the alignment of the top team and buy-in to the change effort
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Develop a common language, skills, and methodology
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Duration
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1 day
How We Use This Program in Cultural-Change Projects
The Directing Change Program plays a key role in cultural-change efforts. We integrate key elements of this program into the workshop used to develop the organization’s change strategy, support structures, measurement tool, and implementation plan. Throughout the transformation process, we coach the management team using key concepts from the program, ensuring they have the skills and understanding needed to direct the change effectively at every step of the change process.
This program is part of our Pulscipline™ Cultural-Change System
INDICATIVE CONTENTS
Learning from Success and Failures
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Review cases studies to learn from the successes and failures of other organizations
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Common traps and blind spots that derail cultural-change initiatives
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Review best practices and must-do actions for directing cultural change
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The Realities of Cultural Change
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Understand the difference between cultural change and project management
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Understand how the current culture can either support or inhibit cultural change
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Learn how habits can resist change and how to change peoples' habits
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Overcoming Resistance
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Review the 6 types of inhibitors of change (resistance and derailment factors)
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Learn a method for breaking through the initial wall of resistance
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Understand how to overcome resistance from both leaders and employees
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Building a Powerful Measurement System
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Identify key elements for an effective measurement system for cultural change
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Learn how to create a measurement tool that gains buy-in and can guide the change
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Learn how to combine the data with training and coaching to maximize impactā
āāCreating a Robust Change Strategy
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Review elements often missing in cultural-change strategies
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Understand the natural flow of a cultural-change initiative, broken down into steps
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Develop strategies to identify and eliminate inhibitors of change
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Supporting Systems for Change
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Identify the structures and systems critical for supporting cultural change
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Identify needed leadership skills and how to develop them
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Understand the the support team leaders need to lead their teams through change
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Define Leadership's Role in the Change
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Review the role and responsibilities of the management team in directing the change
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Understand the different roles of the mid-level and first-level leaders
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Understand how to obtain buy in and spread engagement
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Managing the Energy of Change
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Learn how to create and maintain a positive environment for change
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Learn how to handle emotions that may be present at the onset of the change
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Learn how to build momentum throughout the transformation process