Change management

OBJECTIVES OF THE SEMINAR
  • Make management aware about the importance and specifics of change today
  • Convince them that it is better to anticipate, i.e. provoke change rather than undergo it by force
  • Make them conscious that each individual can benefit from newly created dynamics, in order to guarantee long-term survival of the company
  • Help them discover what is their own attitude towards change
  • Identify with them the appropriate attitude management should adopt in the face of change
  • Teach them the behaviour to observe in order to be proactive rather than reactive
  • Incite them to create the conditions that favour mental flexibility of their staffmembers and that allow true dynamic action
  • Help them discover why there is resistance to change in organisations and in individuals
  • Propose solutions which diminish resistance to change
  • Give them practical methods and tools to identify what should be changed in their department, to put it in place and to consolidate it
  • Agree on how to proceed in the future when confronted with accelerated changes in all fields
PROGRAM OF THE SEMINAR
  • Why has change management become a key task for the manager today ?
    • Characteristics and specifics of change today
    • How companies disappear : the "dinosaurus" effect
    • The conditions to fulfill to ensure perennial survival of the company in a competitive environment
  • Which are the attitudes and behaviour to develop to favour anticipation and rapid adaptation to change ?
    • Different business cultures
    • The concept of proactivity
    • Characteristics of the proactive enterprise
  • Analysis of strengths and weaknesses of our organisation in light of change
    • Diagnostics
    • Inventory of priority corrective actions to put in place
  • The manager facing change
    • Testing our own degree of changeability
    • How to become more proactive
  • How to manage resistance to change
    • The different elements hindering change
    • The origins of human resistance
    • How to identify them ?
    • How to avoid or diminish them
    • Rules to observe to facilitate acceptance
  • Strategies and tactics for implementing change
    • Base approach to succeed change
    • Advantages of the soft approach
    • Projection techniques to improve efficiency of the process
    • Steps to observe when reflecting
    • Key questions to ask
    • Conditions of success and pitfalls to avoid