Change Management and Leadership Programme

Workshop Overview

In recent times, managing knowledge and software intensive businesses was more about managing software than managing business. Business just happened.
Tomorrow will no more be the future of yesterday.
The process of dealing the change will involve abilities to conceptualize and deploy strategies, structures and processes, which not only help manage performance for the present and but also aid in building critical and ‘business relevant’ capabilities for the future.
Further, it will necessitate an organization wide culture where its people continuously revisit a set of fundamental questions...

• Are we learning the right things, and thereby making the right Changes and obtaining business benefits from those Changes fast enough?
• Why should we Change?
• Will we like what we Change to?
• Who will support us while we Change? 
• How will we be acknowledged?
• Will we have the skill sets to survive in the Changed world? ….and so on.

Workshop Objective and Deliverables

This course is proposed to provide:

• Appreciation, that management of Change is an exercise in business strategy and people management
• Hands on knowledge and “real life” skill sets required to deal with Change, including an end-to-end session on Scenario building
• Experience of creating a Change Plan, customized to one’s personal and work/business environment
• Insights and practices from best of global cases in Change Management

Who should Attend

• CEOs and senior management

• Managers of technology Change and process improvement programmes

• Internal and external consultants

• HR & SEPG(SM) managers

• Academia researching the possibilities of Change Management

Workshop Contents

• What is “real” Change Management?

  • Understanding the criticality of Aligning Structure with Culture

  • Change and productivity

  • Understanding an “Organizational Energy Map”

  • Handling resistance Change Management in a Knowledge Corporation

• Understanding the ‘High Performing Knowledge Organization’

  • How to Build a Commitment based organization?

  • Using critical leverages for managing Change

  • Sustaining High Performance

• Developing a Personal Vision

• Developing an Organizational/ Group Vision

  • Understanding Purpose

  • Plotting Key milestones

  • Appreciating reputation with stakeholders

  • Developing the internal work environment, including values and feelings

• Building Scenarios

  • Understanding drivers of business

  • Creating a set of relevant scenarios based on business logic

• Validating Vision in light of Scenarios

• Analyzing Current Reality

• Constructing a TOWS matrix and generating action points

• Checking for consistency between action points generated and validated Vision(s)

• Plotting High leverage activities and drafting a Change Plan

  • Blueprinting initiatives, metrices, responsibilities and deadlines

• Lessons in Change Management: learning from global cases including payoffs

• Operationalising Change through optimal leadership and decision style(s)

This will be a live opportunity to use tools for…

• Scenario Building

• Vision Deployment 

• Personal Visioning

• Organizational Visioning

• TOWS matrix

• Change Decision Tree