Tackling Change Management - A Workshop for Professional Practices
Introduction
This in-person workshop will focus on how to lead and drive change in a professional practice. It is aimed at law, accountancy and surveying firms.
As well as providing strategies for effective leadership styles and driving change, the session will also explore solutions to some of the most common challenges faced.
What You Will Learn
This course will cover the following:
- Why is change so difficult?
- What is change management?
- Change vs. transition
- Cultural issues within partnerships and the professions
- Common barriers
- Creating your change management programme
- Aims (vision and mission)
- Plans (identifying key issues and strategy development)
- Execution (project planning and management)
- Maintaining momentum
- Leading change
- What is great leadership? Management vs Leadership
- Styles of leadership
- Situational leadership and the task, team and individual model
- Emotional intelligence
- Motivation - People centred implementation
- Team development, delegation and succession
- Creating a learning organisation
- Breaking out of the comfort zone - Supporting individual change
- Psychology of human behaviour
- The change cycle
- Changing yourself
- Changing the behaviour of others - comfort zones, stress and nudging
- Understanding personalities, attitudes, motivation and resistance
- Generational differences
- The role of training, delegation and coaching
- Breaking out of complacency - Supporting organisational change
- Organisational metaphors
- Creating the need for change
- Clarity on mission and a compelling vision
- Overview of leading change management models
- Planning for effective change
- Incremental and fundamental approaches
- Employee engagement
- Aligning recognition and reward systems
- Performance management
- Change management insights
- 20 tips and tools to help you change your management programme