Why do so many changes fail? Change is essential to organizational growth and progress, yet researchers report that more than 60 percent of new strategic plans, re-engineering projects and mergers fail to achieve intended results. The reasons for failure include false assumptions and inadequate planning for key issues, including people issues.
This hands-on, action workshop draws the best insights and newest techniques from change research. Learn the frameworks, models, and strategies that will make your change project succeed. Learn to avoid the mistakes that foil other projects. Teaching methods include cases, videos, exercises, simulation, feedback questionnaires and mini-lectures. Attendees are encouraged to bring a change project about which to strategize and receive feedback from others.
DATES:
Fall 2010 - TBD
COST:
$2,700 - Includes tuition, textbook, instructional materials, continental breakfast, and lunch.
REGISTRATION:
Register online >
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
In this intensely focused program, you will learn best practices for leading change and hear first hand from successful change leaders. Upon completing the program, you will:
- Understand where change initiatives go wrong
- Have assessed your temperament and style as a change leader
- Learn how to create a change vision and ignite a burning platform
- Experience new techniques for accelerating change implementation
- Learn the essential steps for managing big projects and transformations
- Identify best practices leaders use to guide change
- Learn tools to influence others to embrace change
- Identify and plan for key change roles, including change champion and change sponsor
- Know how to engage both hardware and software for change.
- Know how to build a management coalition that will sustain change
- Create a detailed plan that will anticipate and eradicate barriers to change
FORMAT:
Three-day program
Classes run from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Owen Graduate School of Management, unless otherwise noted.
INSTRUCTOR:
Richard L. Daft
Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management
Professor Daft is among the most published and most frequently cited scholars in the fields of change management, leadership and organizational performance. Along with developing and managing the Center for Change Leadership, he has published 12 books (and is currently working on two new additions to that list) and dozens of articles, served as editor of two leading journals, and presented papers at more than 45 universities around the world. Daft also has been involved in management development and consulting for organizations ranging from Bridgestone Firestone, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford Motor Company, Pratt & Whitney, Nortel, State Farm Insurance, Allstate Insurance, the U.S. Air Force and Bell Canada.
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Up to three guest speakers will describe their experiences implementing projects such as a high performance culture, enterprise software or other specific initiatives.
