Leading Transformation

Imagine Your Change Efforts Being Wildly Successful

Imagine the benefits to your organization if:
…you could consistently increase your results from change
…your people were completely engaged
…the cost of change went down while the speed went up

Developing your change leadership skills will make this possible.

Learn the Eight Key Skills of a Successful Change Leader

In this program, you dramatically increase your ability to lead transformation successfully by developing eight key skills:

How to Clarify Your Case for Change, Scope and Desired Outcomes
How to Build a Change Strategy that Delivers the Results You Need
How to Establish Conditions for Success and Sustain Them
How to Build an Effective Change Process Roadmap
How to Engage Your People and Support Them to Contribute Fully
How to Model the Change so You Build Credibility
How to Make Change Communications Work
How to Monitor, Learn, and Course Correct Your Effort to Successful Completion

Avoid the Common Mistakes Others Make

Most organizations fail at change. In fact, research shows that “over seventy-percent of large change efforts fail to produce their expected ROI."

These failures cost organizations billions of dollars annually, damage employee morale, and weaken leaders' credibility. They also jeopardize organizations’ long-term market viability.

Benefit from 30 Years of Action Research

Because we were one of the first change management firms in existence, we have significant experience in virtually all types of change in every conceivable industry. Through this program, you benefit from our expansive research and practice by discovering the common mistakes most other leaders make and how to avoid them. You learn the key actions that we have found generate the greatest success. These insights will accelerate your change efforts, reduce their cost, and positively impact your people. What is the price of failed change in your organization?

What is at risk if your current change efforts do not succeed? Our research will enable you to avoid these failures and deliver increased results.

Conscious Transformation: Learn to See What Others Do Not See

Transformation carries with it many people and process dynamics that are different than those found in other less complex types of change.

Leaders fail when they do not see or understand these dynamics. Consequently, they rely on change and project management methodologies that are woefully inadequate. Their wheels spin with activity, but they achieve little traction because they are applying the wrong methods. Is this happening to you?

Succeeding at transformation requires you to expand your worldview and develop very different skills, behaviors, and practices. In this program, you develop these change leadership competencies by becoming conscious of the dynamics others do not see.

You learn to differentiate between the three types of change occurring in your organization. You learn which change strategies and techniques work for each type, and which do not. You discover the underlying causes of resistance and how to resolve them. You learn to see clearly what speeds and slows change so you can ensure that your organization transforms as fast as possible.

These insights enable you to develop a transformational change strategy and plan that delivers your intended business results while simultaneously transforming your culture and people.

Clarify Next Steps Using Being First’s Renown Change Leader’s Roadmap

In Leading Transformation, you are introduced to Being First’s renown nine-phase Change Leader’s Roadmap. You explore the strategic guidance this process model provides, as well as audit your own live change effort using this Methodology. You identify what key change tasks you are doing well, which you have skipped, and which you need to add to your change plan. This clarifies next steps, removes confusion, and produces a specific transformational change plan that you can implement immediately.

Discover How to Turn Resistance into Commitment and Contribution

Ultimately, your ability to manage the human and cultural dynamics triggered by your change effort will determine your level of success. Usually, these dynamics show up as “resistance,” and limit the ROI you get from change.

In Leading Transformation, you learn the human and cultural dynamics that underlie and cause resistance, and how to minimize them to increase commitment and contribution.

You discover unique approaches to employee engagement and communications. You learn the emotional transitions that all people go through as they adapt to change. And, you learn the most important human dynamic of all: how you must personally change—in thought, behavior and action—to be a better model of the change you are asking of your organization.

Engage Your People

Yes, Leading Transformation clarifies the human dynamics in change and how to manage them successfully. However, this is not just a course on “people dynamics.”

The power of this program resides in its integrated approach: you learn how to manage the people dynamics as part of the design and implementation of your organizational and technical changes.

With this approach, you minimize resistance by engaging your people in the real work of change. You learn how to involve them in planning and design, so they own implementation and continuous improvement. You get their willing contribution to the success of the change because you learn how to make it their change.

Learn the Proven Strategies and Practices You Need to Succeed

In this three-day session, you learn:

Which change strategies and practices to use for each type of change you face
The ten most common mistakes made in leading transformation and how your change effort rates on them
Change leadership styles that work for transformation, and those that do not
The eight key actions of a successful change leader
How to accurately scope your change effort and develop a compelling case for it
How to build a comprehensive change strategy that will produce your intended business results while simultaneously transforming your culture
How to design and implement your change process so that it integrates your organizational/technical changes and their required human/cultural initiatives into one unified effort
How to maximize employee engagement to get your entire organization committed to the change and collectively striving to make it successful
How to overtly model in behavior and attitude the changes you are asking of your organization
How to resolve the complex “people issues” catalyzed by transformation, such as resistance, politics, anger, fear, and loss
How to design your change communications to have the impact you need from them
How to best govern your change and build a change infrastructure that supports operational excellence while your organization changes
How to build your organization’s capacity for ongoing change while making your current change a success

Audience

This program is designed for senior and mid-level change leaders, project managers, change consultants, change project team members, and other leaders needing an in-depth understanding of how to successfully lead transformational change.

Program Materials

Program materials, included in the tuition, include The Change Leader’s Roadmap Overview and The Change Leader’s Roadmap Checklist, and a 150 page Training Manual complete with all the key models and tools.