Change Communication'

Activities Cover:- Change in the workplace; Developing goals for change; Change and self-development; Accepting change; Understanding change;

Training Methods: 25 activities involve group discussions; 13 questionnaires and instruments highlight current; perceptions and identify resistance to change; 6 role-play scenarios aid the transfer of learning from the workshop to the workplace; 6 written exercises provide an opportunity to express personal thoughts, and reactions to change.

420 pages /3-ring binder /Code...50AC/ $149.95

The Program includes a Questionnaire with guidlines to help participants develop a personal Action Plan, as well as a comprehensive Leader's Guide, which provides information on implementation and scoring.

ChangeAbilitator is a powerful tool for:

• Organizational development - identify employee concerns in order to prepare for the obstacles of change
• Team building - gain insight into the dynamics of a group and its ability to accept change
•  Leadership development - learn to implement changes effectively by understanding employees' concerns

One complete Leader's Guide Plus one questionnaire for $34.95

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

What about changing your organization? Can a small group of thoughtful, committed employees change the organization’s culture? Having been part of several major culture change efforts in both for profit and non-profit organizations, I learned the following lessons about how to change the culture:

• The most important lesson of all is that change is not about technology, or systems, or procedures, or cost. Change is first and foremost about people. Even when the change is due to the introduction of new technology, it is still about people, not technology. A change initiative that does not pay attention to people will almost certainly fail. Most of the reengineering efforts of the nineties failed because they focused on the procedural aspects of work, ignoring the crucial human side.
• Make sure you have several champions of change at the leadership level and get them involved from the start.
• Get a large enough group of good, positive, and energetic employees to participate in a number of teams, focusing on the various aspects of the change initiative; process redesign, training, organizational communication, systems, measurements, ideas, etc.
• Provide only the broad highlights of the goals of the culture change effort. Let people come up with the ideas and detailed action plans themselves. Only when employees participate in the design will they be committed to the change. The more employees at all levels to participate, the more successful the change initiative will be. In fact, a significant part of the culture change takes place merely because people, through participation, feel empowered to shape their own work environment.
• Use organization-wide communication through town-meetings, publications, intranet, and other media to share information, articulate the mission, and celebrate every success. Communication is a crucial tool for supporting the change effort.
• Measure the key elements you want to change before and after. Without measurements, you will never know that you've succeeded.

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Illustrate the need for change / Develop a strategy for implementing change / Understand the effects of change on the organization / Equip managers with the skills they require to ensure a smooth transition

256 pp/ 3-ring binder/Code..HRACMC/ $69.95

"The Tool Kit is an outstanding piece of work...project management concepts are explained in understandable terms and will equip project leaders and teams in any functional area with the tools they need to deliver their projects."

- Tamara Patrick, Director, Global Organization and Leader Development, Whirlpool Corporation

The Project Management Tool Kit is a comprehensive resource that identifies the competencies for successful project managers and organizations; provides reproducible assessments to measure organization and individual strengths; facilitates developmental action planning; includes comprehensive facilitator instructions (including handouts and transparency masters for a half- and full-day training program); and has self-instructional job aids and a case study.

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• Introduce competency orientation to your project management
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• Conduct group training
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• Analyze your current project management processes

The Project Management Tool Kit includes:

• Comprehensive Facilitator's Guide (3-Ring Binder with overhead masters and PowerPointTM slide disk)
• A half-day and full-day training program
• Two reproducible competency assessments with a developmental resource guide for action planning
• Two reproducible organization readiness assessments with recommended actions
• Four copies of the "Knowledge Management Case Study" to illustrate the use of project management principles and tools

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Far off in the sea is an island, born of the erupting volcano, with the wind and rain and the pounding waves. And on this island is a wonderful, wide, white sand beach. Since the birth of the island, this beach would not stay put. The sea would take back the white sand when a big storm struck and leave only rough-black volcanic rock. Then the winds would die down, and the surf settle and the white sand would return to the shore and become once again a beautiful, wide beach. It would be wider and whiter than it was before, and the storm would bring more fish to the island, to feed the birds and the animals. It was like this every few years after a storm, for ten thousand storms. The storm would be frightening. Everything would look different for a while. But the beach would always come back, bringing more fish than before.

All of the living things of the island understood and accepted. Until the humans came.

A Question for Reflection: How is the storm a metaphor for the change that we are experiencing in many aspects of our lives (i.e., global changes, economy, careers and family)?

This metaphor is just one of many utilized by the video-based training programs: Leading the Change (for managers) and (Making the Change) for all employees. See below for more information.

LEADING THE CHANGE. MAKING THE CHANGE - Two powerful video based training programs: 'Leading the Change' for leaders, and 'Making the Change' for employees to help organizations manage and accept changing workplace realities and relationships. $625 Each.

These extraordinary 2 video training programs bring together a distinguished collection of practitioners and researchers who are leading private and public sector organizations through these fundamental transformations. CEO's, managers, line workers and consultants discuss why changes are occurring and how they impact employees and managers alike, sharing their visions of how we can most benefit from the turbulence we find ourselves in.

The 'Communicating Change' segment below offers one of the metaphors used in this training program.

Flexible Training: Each segment of the video can be viewed separately and the suggested questions, exercises and activities in the guide used as part of a facilitation process. If all the material contained in the guide is used with The New Workplace videos, it can constitute a two day training program.

Support Materials: The videos are accompanied by a 46 page Facilitator's Guide which includes 9 participant handouts, a bibliography, a dictionary of new business terms, activities, exercises and questions for discussion. With the purchase of The New Workplace series, you are granted license to make as many copies of the Facilitator's Guide or the handout pages as your organization needs.

Available in versions for unionized and non-unionized workplaces. Leading the Change is also available in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese.

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To effectively manage change, you must be able to communicate about it effectively. Our Best Seller Communication Plan Template is the tool that helped people in leading organizations effectively communicate change to all employees and other stake-holders.

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