Senior Management Leadership Program: Managing Organizational Change and Leading Transformation West

Course details

Leading an organizational change can be difficult, even for a senior management executive with considerable influence. The change may be complex and require dozens or even hundreds of managers and supervisors to be committed and aligned in implementing the shared vision; resistance to change will be considerable; and the change have to be accomplished while the company continues to serve its customer base.

A merger or acquisition, a new business model, an ERP implementation, or a host of other catalysts may precipitate the change. Most seasoned executives are skilled at drawing up a strategic plan, and charting a course of action. However, to design and execute a strategic roadmap that successfully engages the people of the enterprise to lead the changes remains elusive. Most change initiatives are met with enormous resistance, resulting in failure to achieve the desired outcomes. It is therefore critical that the skills and planning tools for engaging people throughout the organization to lead the changes, become known and practiced.

In this two-day senior management leadership program, you will learn how to successfully manage changes in your organization and eventually lead the change initiative to a transformational one. You will discover how to create a compelling vision and climate for successful organizational change, develop a robust change management plan and powerfully communicate the need for change and mobilize people to be committed and aligned in executing a shared vision. Participants will also learn from Harvard Business School case studies on how successful companies such as Apple have led successful change management plans and transformation changes in their organizations. Finally, you will discover how to sustain these changes and build improvements to create transformational changes. Through hands-on experience and in-depth analysis drawn from real-life examples, you and your peers will leave with new perspectives and tangible action plans for leading change in your organizations.

This program will be led by Felicity McRobb – a Founding Member of Insigniam’s Asia practice. Felicity has previously led and facilitated the following programs: ‘Executive Director’s Leadership Program,’ ‘Leading a High Performance Organization,’ and ‘Coaching for Extraordinary Results,’ in both Singapore and Sydney, Australia. Her programs have consistently become one of the most highly-rated executive programs at Clariden.

What You Can Expect

You will learn the critical skills and tools to design and implement change. This is a highly participatory and practical program. The secret to success is in your participation and the application of what you learn.

In this intensive two-day executive program, you will learn how to:

• Design a case for change that will give you competitive advantage, whether or not you have a “burning platform.”
• Establish a sense of urgency to accomplish the changes
• Create a leadership coalition committ ed to leading the changes, and aligned on a set of objectives
• Design an organizational context to empower the changes
• Define ‘breakthrough results’ and the kind of leadership required to produce unprecedented results
• Draw up a plan to engage key stakeholders from various cross functional groups to lead the vision
• Overcome people’s resistance to change
• Plan and execute the three key phases of successful change
• Make complex change manageable and break it down into ‘bite-sized’ pieces
• Install a culture with high levels of trust, accountability and performance
• Communicate effectively to accomplish your objectives, inspire and motivate yourself and others
• Rapidly resolve issues, problems and obstacles
• Practice acknowledgement and appreciation – the most under-utilized leadership tool

Who Will Benefit Most

This executive program is designed for

• Directors, Vice Presidents, Managing Directors, Managing Partners, Senior Directors, Senior VPs, General Managers and C-Level executives who have strategic responsibilities in their organization and are seeking the critical tools to “how to’s” to change their organizations for competitive advantage
• HR Leaders in organizations who are involved in implementing organizational changes or are advising their C-level executives on successful strategies to implement changes
• High potential global leaders and senior executives who are leading and managing teams, and wish to be able to engage people across their organizations in new possibilities that produce unprecedented results

Program Outline

DAY 1

• The Case for Change
• Creating a Leadership Coalition Committ ed to Leading the Changes, and aligned on a Set of Outcomes
• The Power of How Your Message is Received
• Developing a Plan to Engage Individual Stakeholders and Stakeholder Groups

DAY 2

• Developing a Critical Mass of People Across The Organization to Lead the Vision
• It All Boils Down to the Actions People Stop Doing and Start Doing
• Developing Short Term, Long Term and Medium Term Wins
• How to Rapidly Resolve Inevitable breakdowns (Interruptions to Your Commitment)