1-day VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: Foundations of Change

WORKSHOP CONTENT AND KEY OUTCOMES

Module #1: Engage

Identify and Engage Your Stakeholders

• • Understand why “one-size-fits-all” thinking is flawed (The Fallacy of Average)
  • Gain tools to complete a comprehensive stakeholder analysis
  • Identify specific ways to address the needs of each stakeholder group

Module #2: Set the Stage

Develop an Environment of Mutual Trust and Transparency

• • Understand the role trust and transparency play in creating the foundation for change to occur (as well as challenges that arise when these are absent)
  • Learn practices that can be used to develop a culture of mutual trust and transparency
  • Engage in an activity that can be used with your team to enhance trust and transparency

Module #3: Shared Purpose

Create an Authentic and Aligned Vision for the Future

• • Understand how an authentic and shared purpose dramatically improves organizational performance, employee engagement, quality, customer service, and overall satisfaction
  • Develop leadership fluency in building and evolving your organization’s purpose, mission, vision, and values
  • Learn the process of “living” an organization’s purpose – it’s FAR more than printing T-shirts and updating employee performance management plans

Module #4: Communicate

Design a Comprehensive Change Communications Plan

• • Understand the roles of “Big C” and “little c” communication during change
  • Learn to build and implement a comprehensive change communication plan

Module #5: Prioritize

Identify Priorities to Chart Your Strategic Path Through Change

• • Access user-friendly tools to authentically include various stakeholders in the design and prioritization of your organization’s strategic path through change
  • Learn to conduct targeted gap analysis
  • Identify approaches for prioritizing and resourcing activities

Module #6: Operationalize

Build Meaningful, Actionable, Resourced Recommendations

• • Identify the right people for your “recommendation” teams
  • Understand the key elements necessary to facilitate a stakeholder-led recommendation process
  • Learn to attach organizational resources to your change initiative so that it has the energy and opportunity to be successful

Module #7: Make It Real

Measure and Sustain the Change

• • Understand how to create an implementation plan that is measurable and sustainable
  • Identify how to navigate typical challenges and pitfalls in implementation
  • Learn to schedule and conduct feedback sessions designed to ensure the change actually works