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Leadership & Change:
Master the art and science of successfully leading change!

Effective problem solving and implementation of improvements is rare these days. All too frequently people are faced with having to find solutions to stubborn problems. They run into difficulties like people not working well together or work not being focused on achieving desired results. Organizational processes, policies and guidelines further hinder moving forward.

Yet in the midst of all this, people are asked to:

• Increase productivity and solve problems

• Enhance quality, customer service and business results

• Develop and keep a competitive edge against increasing competition

• Work through changes in management, strategy or the organization

The typical approach is to analyze the situation, design the change and then throw it over the partition wall and expect it to be implemented. The result is frustration both by those designing the change and those who are supposed to implement the change. Then there are the people who criticize what is wrong and some even know what the solution is, but very few have roadmaps on how to get there.

The Leadership and Change Workshop provides a roadmap to design changes that have an impact on making continuous improvement. In the workshop you use an approach to change in your own real situation which guides you from where things are today to where you want them to be - your desired end point.

These are the 6 key steps in the interactive learning model which significantly raises the probability of successful problem solving, design, and implementation . . .

Assess - look at what's going on and discover ways of solving problems.

Design - decide where you want to be.

Transition and Action Plans - plan how you're going to convince others that the proposed changes are good and get them to help.

Leadership - make the changes happen.

Challenge Yourself - question your own views and generate new ideas.

Implementation - you successfully implement!

Leadership and Change is a workshop in which you do real work that is targeted for on-the-job implementation in a situation you choose. The work directly puts the information and tools into practice.

The Benefits

• Stay flexible and adaptable--deal with change confidently.

• Know more about what's going on now and what needs to happen.

• Increase your skills and become more adept at successful implementation.

• Discover problem areas and ways of solving them.

• Understand the psychology of change and its impact on you and others.

• Make real changes happen!

Who Should Attend

• Senior and Middle Managers who are initiating and implementing positive change.

• Program and project managers, staff, quality and technical experts who have important ideas to implement through teams or across departments.

• Those with tough productivity problems that don't seem to get solved.

View a sample workshop agenda for Leadership and Change.

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