Course overview
This course is designed to equip leaders and senior management with the skills and knowledge to navigate the rapidly changing business environment driven by swift and often turbulent market shifts. Participants will have the opportunity to explore innovative alternatives to their current business models and gain proficiency in using strategic tools and planning techniques to guide their organizations through their next transformational journey.
Training methodology
Participants are encouraged to come prepared with current transformational business challenges. Throughout the course, they will be guided through the content, coached on utilizing relevant tools, and exposed to strategic models, business cases, and concepts that can be applied in their organizations.
Target competencies
- Leading Change
- Planning for Change
- Communicating Change
- Implementing Change Plans
- Managing Conflicts
- Emotional Intelligence
Course objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Develop a deep understanding of the importance of transformational change
- Assemble a team of key managers and influencers to drive the desired change
- Foster organizational acceptance and support for the transformation process
- Maintain open and effective communication throughout the transformational journey
- Create and implement a strategic plan to successfully lead transformational change
Course outline
Understanding Transformational Change
- Differentiating between transformational change and change management
- Prerequisites for transformational change – Beckhard’s approach
- Various approaches to transformational change
- Navigating the transitional phases of transformation
- Assessing the need and intensity for transformation
Establishing the Foundation for Transformational Change
- Characteristics and capabilities of transformational leaders
- Key factors for effective change management
- The challenge of leadership versus the status quo
- Understanding the psychological contract
- The emotional competence framework
The Transformational Change Model
- Overview of the model and intended results
- The process behind the transformational change model
- Aligning leadership characteristics with the model for success
- Creating a conducive climate for transformational change
- Engaging and enabling the organization
- Implementing and sustaining change
- Managing resistance to change
- Continuous process of transformational change
- Insights and lessons from transformational leaders
Communicating Transformational Change
- The leader’s role in communication
- Purposeful communication strategies
- Understanding and addressing stakeholder needs
- Key principles of communicating transformational change
- Measuring the effectiveness of the communication strategy
- The transformational change communication playbook
Formulating and Executing the Transformational Strategic Plan
- Key considerations for executing transformational strategic plans
- Core traits of organizational effectiveness
- Building blocks for executing transformational strategies
- Mapping improvements to strategic building blocks
- Testing the execution plan
- Delivering results and measuring success
- Preparing for future challenges and opportunities