How can you lead your team through change without losing sight of your performance objectives?
How can you engage your team members in change and maintain collective drive throughout the process?
Demonstrate your leadership qualities and draw up your change-management road map.           

For whom

Line and cross-functional managers
In companies that are:
- currently going through a period of change
- and want to rapidly implement changes

Objectives

Find out about your own profile as a change leader and identify your team members' profiles .
Clarify the objectives behind the decision to change and explain them to your team.
Engage your team members and nurture a proactive approach to change.
Build a productive network in a changing environment.
Succeed in your 'first steps' towards change.

Brief Program

 1st talent: YOU embody change
- The four change-leadership styles.

2nd talent: your clarity in choosing a strategy
- Five principles for clear thinking.
- Being resilient and preparing to change and create change.
- Objective-based strategy.
- Being clear about the advantages of not changing and the negative consequences of successful changes.
- The seven criteria for an achievable change objective.

3rd talent: your ability to create the future
- Metaphors supporting change.
- The table of purposes.

4th talent: your network of allies
- Three principles for building a network of allies.
- What are networks for?
- Identifying allies in the team or project group.
- Network types.
- Which network to choose?
- What to expect in the change assimilation process?

5th talent: your fist steps
- Quick wins improve chances of success.
- Planning your progress: changes achievable within the timeframe.

Benefits for the participant

Confidence in your role as change leader.
Solutions rather than problems.
Increase your power of influence by building an effective network of allies.
Accelerate your professional development by becoming more adaptable and more agile.

Benefits for the company

Greater strategic alignment.
More dedicated and motivated teams.
Teams that achieve objectives (productivity, deadlines, quality, etc).
More proactive teams to deal with an ever-changing environment.

Concept

Your five talents for successful change

1] Your ability to embody change
2] Your clarity in choosing a strategy
3] Your ability to create the future, i.e. anticipate and deal with people’s reactions, communicate and persuade
4] Your social capital, i.e. creating and using networks
5] Your first steps: roll out change for quick wins

Lead change in tense times such as today
- Incorporate the changes into your management: change is a constant!
- Move from a classic ‘revolt, mourning, acceptance’ pattern to an ‘opportunity, driver, action’ pattern
- Change happens fast, so move faster: change management calls for instant action and agile responses

Highlights: experience the five talents first-hand
Explore your leadership style
Peer coaching and self-assessment:
- Bridges the gap between understanding the different styles to applying them in your everyday management role.
Making a clear-sighted, sound choice of strategy
Work in sub-groups on participants’ own experiences:
- The problems that arise during change do not compromise your chances of achieving your objectives.
The metaphor game
This game will help you learn how to convince people and spur them into action:
- Motivate and engage your team members or other project stakeholders
Analysis and diagnosis
Your network of allies:
- Make the network part of your change-management strategy
Achieving change
Peer coaching, and personal action plans discussed in sub-groups:
- Plan the next change and take the first steps now