Leading Change Through People - Understanding Your Style

Discover your change style and learn to lead change through self-awareness, style, implementation strategies and methods

What you'll learn

Students will learn about the change cycle and the different dimensions of change.

Students will learn to identify their change style (conserver, pragmatic, originator), how to identify the style of others and how to lead for a style.

Students will gain knowledge and strategies for implementing change in an organization.

Students will learn about how to select a change method that is appropriate for the type of change and the stage of the organization.

Requirements

There are no prerequisite for this course. It is change management for all levels of learners. Those participating in a change process and those who lead change would equally benefit from this curriculum.

Description

Leading change can be challenging. Change is constant and learning to adapt to change or lead others through change is a process. This course will lead the learner through an understanding of the change cycle and how individuals and organizations progress through that cycle. Self-awareness is critical for change leadership. Understanding your personal reactions to change and then understanding how others react will enable you to be effective throughout the process.  The course will introduce you to the Change Style Indicator assessment and give you a tool for effective leadership through understanding of self and others. Change styles are along a continuum including conserver, pragmatic and originators. Each of us will have a preferred change style. To effectively lead others through the change process, communicating through their preferred style will ease the transition. The course will engage the learner in the process for implementing change and which methods to use in various situations. There are several aspects within the change process that are consistent across all methods of change. This course will introduce the learners to the commonalities within each of the methods. Finally, there are more than 60 change methods that can be used when defining the strategy for change. The most important aspect for the learner is to understand how a method should be selected. This course will outline five categories of change methods and provide examples of the types of projects that fall within each of the categories.  This course will include video and exercises to apply the knowledge that has been gained throughout the course.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: What is Change

Lecture 2 Introduction to What is Change

Lecture 3 What is Change

Lecture 4 The Change Process

Lecture 5 The Dimensions of Change

Lecture 6 What is Change Summary

Section 3: Change Style Indicator - What is Your Preferred Style

Lecture 7 What is a change preference

Lecture 8 What are the different change preferences

Lecture 9 The Change Style Indicator Continuum

Lecture 10 The structure of the change styles

Lecture 11 How the different styles respond effectively to change

Lecture 12 When facing change, Conservers will? Characteristics of a Conserver.

Lecture 13 When facing change, Originators will? Characteristics of an Originator.

Lecture 14 When facing change, Pragmatics will? Characteristics of a Pragmatic.

Lecture 15 Perceptions of One Style to Another

Lecture 16 How to communicate change by style

Lecture 17 Change Style Preference Summary and CSI Assessment

Section 4: Implementing Change - How to effectively lead a change process

Lecture 18 Who owns the change process

Lecture 19 The Two Ways to Implment Change

Lecture 20 Connect the People with the Purpose of the Change

Lecture 21 Unleashing the Individual's Contribution

Lecture 22 The Whole Person

Lecture 23 The Whole System - the Change Process

Lecture 24 The 5 Methods of Change

Lecture 25 The Adaptive Method

Lecture 26 The Planning Method

Lecture 27 The Structuring Method

Lecture 28 The Improving Method

Lecture 29 The Supportive Method

Section 5: Summary of Learning

Lecture 30 Summary of this Course

This course is intended for people who want to understand the change process. Learners who are curious about their own reaction to change and how others may be different will also benefit. Finally, for those preparing to lead a change initiative, clearly defined steps will be presented.