Avoid the pitfalls of change

In generations past, change was slower and easier to manage.

Today, change is sudden, often dramatic and filled with a delicate mix of danger and opportunity.

Modern rates of change summon the best of us forward to embrace the opportunities and grow through the challenges.

In the 21st century change is driven by a variety of factors and influences - some within your control, and some outside of it. Factors which impact how and when your oprganisation and life changes include globalisation, rapid advances in technology, communication and information overload, a fluctuating economy, market needs and consumer demands, changes in legislation, high immigration brain drain, and so much more!

Badly managed change leads to decay and unhappiness
Poor talent retention, breakdowns in communication, low morale, diminished productivity and performance, confusion, loss of market share and brand damage, are just some of the obstacles that lie in the path of successful change.

Join us on this invigorating one-day workshop experience and experience how effective change management can lead to growth and high returns:

• Stronger, more cohesive teams,
• Trim the fat
• Clarity of focus and priorities
• A renewed sense of purpose
• Postivie new habits
• Gains in market share - and increased turnover and profits

Fill your change management toolbox with proven, easy-to-implement tools!

• Cutting edge change leadership tools to positively accelerate moving any change process
• Highly-effective strategies for you to maximise the hidden opportunities created by the change process
• Communication techniques to neutralise potential change-based hazards.

This workshop can be run as an intervention workshop for organisations moving through a change process, or as a risk-management initiative to strengthen your organisation's resilience.

• Junior Managers
• Senior Managers
• Marketing Managers
• Heads of Department
• Project Managers
• Anyone involved in managing staff

• The kite process
  Before change can be managed, all role players must have clarity and buy-in on the following 3 aspects of the change process, defined as the "kite change model":
  • Where are we now?
  • The Cause
    • Clarify the cause of the change.
    • Is the change internally or externally driven?
    • Understand that disempowered people assign blame to the perceived cause of change.
  • The Stage
    • Learn to identify the current stage of the change process.
• Where we do want the change to take us?
  • The Objective
    • Define or understand the clear objectives of where the change process must land. Communicate the goals and get buy in from all players (and everyone in the system is a player).
  • What the primary obstacles are to positive change?
  • The kite cross bar
    • Define the primary challenging dynamics towards positive change, learn to use the cross bar of challenge to fly the kite.
• The 3 pillars of successful change management
  Learn the 3 pillars of managing successful change
  • Empowerment: to be able to create positive change
  • Equal-to: being equipped to cope with the stress and fear of the change process
  • Engaged: being personally engaged and committed to the positive outcome of the change process
• Tools to manage & lead change
  Gain the tools to build the 3 pillars of successful change management.
  • CHANGE MANAGEMENT Empowerment TOOL
    The "power formula" – empower yourself and others through the change process Learn the "Power Formula" a simple formula that when understood equips people to become proactive, responsible positive contributors within the change process. Boosting morale and retaining talent. Understand that change causes 2 key responses in people – it can empower OR disempower. Use the "power formula" to move people to an empowered place of being equipped to face and even welcome change.
  • CHANGE MANAGEMENT Equal-to TOOL
    The Equal-To feared outcomes tool – don't let fear be the backseat drive of the change process Equip yourself and others to challenge the fear and the "mental" concepts of feared outcomes that keep people from moving proactively and positively towards reaching their desired goals. Fear cripples and disempowers any change process. Learn specific and simply tools to transform fear into power.
  • CHANGE MANAGEMENT Engaging TOOL
    The kite alignment tool - People will buy into change if they can see a direct and clear connection between their personal goals and values and the objectives of the change process. Learn "engaging communication" tools to help people to authentically buy-in to the change process.
• The role of change
  • See the deeper significance and positive role of change, using nature as an analogy and teacher.

Leave equipped, inspired and motivated to become positive change agents.

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