Seminar Change Management — Shaping and Managing Change Effectively and Efficiently

This seminar series is intended to support managers and leaders of key projects involved in corporate change. Change processes make great demands on line managers.

The task of leading a change project makes serious demands on leadership and methodology in themselves. However, all those who are responsible for change process also have to deal with the changes in their own role. This seminar supports them in overcoming the complex variety of requirements which are presented by the change process.

Aims:

• Support for change in the company
• Developing a new interpretation of the relevant roles: within the modern company every executive is a change manager
• Tackling the 'new' leadership task of being a change manager
• Extension of authority to act in relation to change processes

Content:

• How do people change? How do companies change?
• Review of personal attitudes and patterns of behaviour in the management of change processes
• Systematically deriving impulses for change from a strategy
• Phases of the change process - and the important factors in each phase
• Planning and managing the change process
• Features of successful change processes
• Creating a comprehensive understanding of leadership and organisation design among all executives
• Change processes as seen by the staff who are affected
• Styles of management and their effects
• Interrelations between leadership and management in the change process
• Intervention options for ensuring success
• Learning as the key to managing change
• Perceiving and responding to emotions involved in the change process
• Formation of resistance and dealing with it
• Overcoming crises in the change process
• Managers as individuals in the change process — their own states of mind
• Frequent errors in change processes

Target group: Executives in leadership positions and leaders of change projects