Gain the knowledge and skills you need to help shape the future of your organization. Explore various tools for understanding and facilitating change and strategies for managing and shaping change. Discover the endless possibilities to exercise true leadership.
Who Should Attend?
Supervisors, managers, branch chiefs, division heads, team leaders and professionals in influential positions.
Syllabus -- Leading Change, MGMT7201D, Grad. School, USDA
Day one
Introduction and expectations
Building a learning community
Effective leadership characteristics and personality qualities required to support them
Big picture with Margaret Wheatley
Systems thinking
Leading change assessment
Change models integration
Readings: Harvard Business Review articles
Day two
Key learnings review
Emotional Intelligence and its impact on personal and organization change
Change dynamics
Building your own change model
Reading: Harvard Business case study
Day three
Key learnings review
Drucker and Senge: Leading in a Time of Change
Tools for understanding and facilitating change
Case study preparation and presentation. Please note that the presentations of the case study are scheduled to take place during the evening up to 8:00 p.m.
