Change Management Training for Corporate Leaders & Employees
Managing Corporate Change©
Moments of change — however disorienting, however uncertain — are not just opportunities to survive, but to thrive.
Thousands of individuals have now participated in Managing Corporate Change© throughout the United States and internationally. Managing Corporate Change© helps people at all levels in corporations gain the skills necessary to cope with change both inside and outside of work.
Change is necessary to survive in today’s business climate. The question is will people successfully adjust to these changes or will they be overwhelmed by them?
This Workshop Is For Teams Facing:
Mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures
Major restructuring or organizational redesign
New leadership at the top
Rapid growth that’s outpacing culture
Any moment where the old way of doing things no longer works
What your leaders will walk away with:
A clear framework for leading teams through uncertainty without losing people
Communication strategies that build trust when everything feels unstable
Tools for keeping top performers engaged — and keeping them, period
A playbook for preserving culture through structural change
The confidence to lead through what’s coming, whatever it is
Change isn’t the enemy. The organizations that thrive are the ones with leaders who know how to use it.
Why Managing Corporate Change© Works
In the 30 years that we have been offering Managing Corporate Change©, the course has helped individuals and organizations adjust to change in a variety of settings, all with impressive results. Procter & Gamble has used Managing Corporate Change© in nine different locations training every level in the organization. At every site, production records were broken while projects came in ahead of schedule.
When Hewlett Packard was faced with a large reorganization, people were resisting the changes, and production goals were not being met. After the employees and managers attended Managing Corporate Change© the individuals became so productive that the overall project came in ahead of schedule when that was considered a total impossibility.
Emotional Reaction
The first thing that happens to people when they are faced with change is they have an emotional reaction. Most programs on change totally ignore this fact, in spite of participants telling us year after year that this is the hardest part of dealing with change. This is the first thing we address in our course. If people don’t get over their fear, anger, betrayal, anxiety or resentment THEY DON'T HANDLE THE CHANGE WELL no matter how logical and beneficial the change may be. Understanding this emotional component of changes helps managers cope and intervene effectively.
Disciplined Creative Thinking Reaction
In the third part of the course we teach participants a disciplined creative thinking process so they can actually turn the change into something useful for themselves. No manager can show every employee how to make the change work for them. In this process individuals can see how they can take responsibility for themselves in the change process.
The Psychology of Change
Why do people seem to overreact and otherwise reasonable people become completely irrational? In the second part of the course we take a deep look into the psychology of change and why people react the way that they do. Without an understanding of what is going on managers misinterpret the behaviors and actions of employees in very negative ways. Those misinterpretations cause more bad decisions and actually slow the change process down even more. Managers at this point will “re-explain” the need for change making employees feel as though they are being treated as if they are stupid. Further damaging trust and relationships.
Asking for Help is OK
Lastly we teach requesting skills to get them beyond the normal “up by your bootstraps, do it on your own” approach to causing action. The vast majority of people when faced with a change become more self-reliant. It is unconscious and automatic isolating them from the support that is available.