Organisational Change Workshop: How to Prepare and Manage Your Workforce

Who should attend this workshop?

Many of today’s managers have never experienced the challenges of major change. This workshop gives you practical guidelines to help you gain insight and understanding into this very sensitive business imperative, as it will play out in your own environment.

The workshop is designed to help Human Resources Staff and Line Managers to work through the critical steps when anticipating or managing organisational change to ensure the best possible outcome for all stakeholders:

• Developing the vision and strategy to take the organisation forward
• Managing the communication to ongoing stakeholders – initial and ongoing, internal and external
• Ensuring employee engagement with the new vision and strategy

Learning outcomes

The workshop is highly interactive. Participants will engage in facilitated discussions and group exercises to address the following areas:

• Consultation and involvement during the change process - with whom, about what, how much should employees be involved?
• Compiling the Organisational Change Checklist.
• The positive use of the principle of Audience Advocacy, i.e. understanding that to achieve a call to action the audience must be brought into equal focus with the Executive Team’s objectives.
• How to determine your staff’s wants, fears and needs.
• Compiling and delivering a compelling message, which will address your staff’s wants, fears and needs.
• How to manage difficult responses – emotion, anger, distress, disinterest and disengagement.
• What to expect post change announcements.
• Understanding the critical responsibilities of the management team in the early stages of change.
• The real costs of mismanagement of organisational change.