Recommended for

Directors, senior and middle managers leading large scale change projects. Project managers, change managers, internal consultants and HR professionals who are tasked with achieving major change.

Course Overview

The majority of major change projects fail not because of a lack of commitment or intent of the organisations leaders but because the change process itself is inadequate for today’s world. It is sluggish, bureaucratic and fails to engage a critical mass of people who care about the outcomes.

This course looks at a new paradigm for achieving large scale organisation change and draws up on a remarkable case study, Britannia Group. Over the last six years Britannia have successfully transformed their culture, achieved number two in the Great Place to Work Survey and have outstanding levels of employee engagement.

Course Benefits

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Understand the key steps in an organisation wide change process

• Engage people in the change programme developing true ownership and commitment

• Use soft systems methodologies to manage the change programme

• Understand how to identify and mitigate the risks that will derail the change initiative

Course Content

Day 1

• Changing the way we think about change

• A new change paradigm

• The psychology of change

• The change process and soft systems methodologies

• Soft systems versus hard systems

• Change management governance

• Risk management

Day2

• Gaining “buy in” at the outset – The search conference

• Defining the future state – developing a compelling vision

• Stakeholder management

• Action research

• The leadership skills

• Putting individuals “in process”