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Managing Your Team in the Midst of Change

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Helping employees cope with organizational change is a critical leadership competency that today’s managers need to perfect. Too often we forget that the key to successful change lies in individuals’ willingness to modify their habits. As a manager, you have a vital role to play in gaining a better understanding of your employees and interacting with them in a meaningful way. How do people usually react in a situation of change? What are the underlying causes of resistance? How can you help them develop their capacity to tolerate change? During this seminar, you will become acquainted with a number of practical models and tools to effectively deal with the human aspect of change.

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GOALS

Become proficient in practical change management tools.
Gain a better understanding of the repercussions of change.
Assess employees’ concerns in a change scenario.
Take effective action to meet employees’ needs and help them embrace change.

IS THIS FOR YOU?

Professionals working in a supervisory capacity
Managers
Mid-level and senior executives

This program is for you if:

You are in the midst of an organizational change.
You are about to go through an organizational change.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Up-to-the-minute, concrete and hands-on content.
Exposure to new possibilities in terms of managing the human aspect of change by sharing ideas with other participants in similar circumstances.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Each participant will be given a complimentary copy of the book Gérer le volet humain du changement, written by the instructor. This seminar is held in conjunction with HEC Montréal’s Centre d’études en transformation des organisations (CETO) and Pôle Santé de HEC Montréal.

Former Course Title:

In the Throes of Transition: How to Interpret and Deal with Reactions to Change
Leading Your Team Through Organizational Transformation

Program

The human face of organizational change

Toward a better understanding of organizational change
Behaviours specific to the recipients of change
Questions that change sparks in the individual

How do your employees react to change?

Stages of concern model
Usual reactions based on personality types
Resistance to change
Dynamic models of individual experiences as recipients of change
Multiple changes: Helping employees adapt

The manager as an agent of change

Addressing employees’ concerns at each stage of the process
The winning question and conditions for success
Maintaining motivation
Resistance to change: Strategies and interpretations
Force field model
Understanding, buy-in, participation and transfer
Practical change management tools

TRAINING APPROACH

Practical exercises
Discussions
Case studies
Exercises in small groups

Instructors

Céline Bareil

MPs, PhD (Occupational and Organizational Psychology)

Professor, HEC Montréal