Change Management

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Change Management

How you can facilitate change faster, easier and smoother

“You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” Many of us today find that this adage reflects what is happening in companies today. Businesses are continually making new omelettes and breaking more and more eggs. How to deal with the pieces is not the question. The question is: How can employees at all levels take charge of change – acting instead of reacting – on a personal and professional level? 

Change Management used to be a course that managers were sent to when an organization was about to go into a change process. However change has become so frequent that the ability to initiate, facilitate and stabilize change is now a basic skill set that managers on all levels need to master. How do you deal with change? How do you deal with others while being in a change process?

This highly interactive and experiential course aims to support you in finding answers to your individual change questions. We combine theory with real-life examples and apply all learnings to your real-life change case. You will leave your Comfort Zone and enter the Stretch Zone of Change, where you confidently face and master your change challenges.
You will get tools and experiences that will allow you to go through changes as well as take others along. Faster, easier and smoother.



You will…

  • Reflect on the driving forces behind change and their significance for your case
  • Experience the Change Curve: how people react to change and what you can do to lead yourself and others through change processes
  • Understand your own and others’ roles in change processes, why each role is valuable and how you can deal with each role
  • Gain insight into the “Change Iceberg” – what is going on at the organizational level and the personal level
  • Develop skills enabling you to de-stress and recharge in change situations
  • Be able to take the lead in change processes and motivate others to follow
  • Practice how to address the „human side“ of change and deal with the „people issues“
  • Learn how to create involvement and buy-in at all levels
  • Design a compelling future scenario
  • Practice to communicate your vision as well as your road plan in an inspiring way
  • Prepare for the unexpected
  • Practice to have crucial conversations
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfilment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Victor Frankl


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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Richard Buckmunister Fuller, American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor

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Faced with changing one's mind, or proving that there is no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith, influential Canadian-American economist

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty, American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company

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In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer, American social writer

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci


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Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle


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To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.

Emmerson


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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. Bruce Lee

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Change all you want, just know that execution happens at the speed of making sense. Bill Jensen

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It is generally much easier to kill an organization than change it substantially. Kevin Kelly, Out of Control

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When the speed of change outside the organization exceeds the speed of change within ... The end is in sight. Jack Welch, C.E.O., General Electric

If nothing changes, nothing changes! Think about it.

If nothing changes, nothing changes! Think about it.

If you always do what you always did — you'll always get what you always got.

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Dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied, we become obsolete. J. Willard Marriott

A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... unless you fail to make the turn.

Change happens, that is for sure, and not just in our modern, 21st century era. It seems that the stress of the new affects most people in every age. So the trick is not to resist it, but to go with it. The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change.

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Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. Marcus Aurelius

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Observe constantly that all things take place by change. Marcus Aurelius

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Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people. Napoleon Bonaparte