Preparing for Change
Preparing for Change Training Benefits & Deliverables:
- Become more effective in accepting and supporting change
- Understand the upsides to change and growth while preparing for change
- Learn what happens when you choose not to change or grow
- Accept and implement change more quickly, completely and successfully
- Help smooth change transition and help overcome resistance
- Do your part in overcoming negativity in the workplace during change
- Understand the true reasons why we resist and fear change while we are preparing for change
- Anticipate your reactions by applying the “Change Cycle” behavioral model
- Become a more influential and positive role model for co-workers during change
- Learn how you can become a catalyst for change as we are preparing for change
- Deal with your emotional impacts of change more effectively
- Better understand the effect of change on you and your personality
- Improve interpersonal communication to reduce defensiveness during change
- Do your part in reducing conflict in the workplace during change
Course Outline:
I. Understanding and Preparing for Change
- Identify the foundation necessary to support change
- Identify the most common reasons change fails
- Learn the biggest reasons why change succeeds
- Know the truths and myths about change
- Accept the challenge of change
- Become a catalyst for change in your organization
- Know what happens when you choose not to change
II. Increase Your Positive Influence during Change
- Inspire co-worker trust and confidence during change
- Identify how different personalities respond and react to change
- Identify what personality types are the best role models during change
- Fine tune your personality style
- Work more positively with different types of people & personalities during change
- Use the most communication styles to introduce and implement change
- Establish the infrastructure necessary to receive and support change
- Put yourself through a Change Readiness Assessment
III. Understand How People and Organizations Process Change
- Apply “the “Change Cycle” to interpersonal and organizational change
- Learn the 4 stages of change that people and organizations go through
- Identify and anticipate the most common reactions to the stages of change
- Develop proactive individual responses to curb negative reactions
- Prepare yourself for the 4 emotional responses to change
- Accept change in the most positive manner to reduce fear and resistance
- Overcome your co-workers negativity, complaints, apathy or withdrawal
- Identify and manage your risks of change
- Develop a cohesive and strong communication strategy with your manager during change
- Identify how much feedback you require during change
IV. Deal with Challenges during Change
- Motivate yourself to accept the challenges of change
- Learn how not to participate in the rumor mill and gossip during change
- Take steps to keep negativity from becoming contagious
- Develop effective personal strategies to successfully deal with change
- Identify the keys to successfully preparing yourself to effectively change
- Develop an action plan how we can work together more effectively during change
