Course Outline
What It Really Means – Attempts to Define the Concept of Change
- Definitions of change
- What does managing change mean?
- Why all this – about factors triggering the need for change in organizations
- How to grasp it? – different models and approaches to change in business
Change Is Made by People – Psychological Aspects of Change
- Change – opportunity or necessity?
- About the non-existent scary dragon – fear and stereotypes regarding change
- Let's go to battle – preparing people for change
- The specifics and role of communication during change implementation
Is It Time Yet – When Are We Ready for Change?
- Really already ????? – internal and external causes of change
- Maybe better not to… – different types of resistance to change, recognizing them, and ways to overcome them
- When we fear unnecessarily – Albee and his model for understanding and reducing stress
- Pro and con – when we react positively to changes and when negatively
An Organization Is Like a Person – It Develops – Proposal for Analyzing Organizational Development Using Greiner’s Model
- Stages of organizational development in Greiner’s model
- Instruction manual for change – guidelines for implementers on how to react and manage in different phases
Self-Motivation, Positive Attitudes, and Creativity in the Change Implementation and Management Process
- Change begins within us – recognizing our own emotions, attitudes, stances, and reactions to change
- There is always another way – seeking new solutions in familiar situations
How to Do It Step by Step – The Stages of Change Management:
- Establishing the overall organizational goal,
- The scope and magnitude of the change,
- Change and the company’s organizational culture,
- Warning signals – the need to identify critical limitations.
Building a Change Project, Including:
- Step by step – division into stages,
- Who is who – i.e., separating functions,
- It can vary – awareness of potential drops in motivation,
- Observation and evaluation – methods for monitoring and measuring results
Lead, Oh Leader! – The Role of the Leader in the Change Process
- The leader's role in the face of change
- Selecting tools and management styles in change situations
- Can anyone be a change leader? – competency profile of a change leader
Alone or in a Group? – Involving Employees in the Change Process – Drucker’s Model.
- What we didn’t expect – sudden success, failure, or external events,
- The world of imagination vs. the real world – discrepancies between expectations and facts,
- The change process as an indicator of the need for innovation
- Sudden death or a smile from fortune? – Changes that catch everyone off guard.
Effective Influence by the Change Leader
- How to build trust and acceptance of organizational changes
- Persuasion – convincing people to change
- Influencing people in change situations – the models of K. Barnes and R. Cialdini
Requirements
The course is general in nature and participation in it does not require specialist knowledge
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