Leading Strategic Change
Using principle and casework synthesized from academics and experience, this course provides the key factors that differentiate between organizations that change successfully and those that do not. Upon completion, participants have a blueprint and action plan for a significant strategic change in their organizations, possessing a toolkit for assessing and executing strategic changes in the future.
Pre-work: Advance Assignments
- Online Self-Assessments
- Identification & Description of Potential Organizational Change
- Readings
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
- The forces driving change
- Reactions to change
- Causes of reactions
- Identify our personal characteristics that impact our reactions
- Techniques to develop support for organizational change
- A systematic plan to lead change
- Team practice analyzing a real organizational change
Day 1
- Overview of a Systematic Plan to Guide Effective, Efficient Change Management
- Evaluating Your Organization’s Readiness for Change
- The Range of Reactions to Change
- In-Class Exercises
Day 2
- Underlying Causes of Reactions to Change
- Impact of Attitudes Towards Change
- Impact of Personality
- Real Life: Interviews with organizational members about change experiences
- Techniques for Developing Support and Reducing Resistance
- In-Depth: A Systematic Plan to Guide Effective, Efficient Change Management
- In-Class Exercises
Faculty
Randall B. Dunham is Chair of the Management and Human Resources Department, Faculty Co-Director of the CIBER Center for International Activities, and Keenan A. Bennett Chair in the School of Business. He has taught management, organizational behavior, compensation, research methods, and doctoral seminars. He received the Larson Excellence in Teaching Award, the Robert A. Jerred Distinguished Service Award and the William J. Nasgovitz Award for Outstanding Teaching and Innovation. Dunham’s research was twice selected by the Society of Human Resource Management as best personnel research of the year. Current research includes organizational change and management issues in cross cultural boundaries. Dunham’s publications include six books and award-winning interactive multimedia software on motivation in organizations. He has provided management consulting and executive development services to a wide range of business organizations. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and The American Psychological Society, and a charter member of the Academy of Management’s Journals Hall of Fame.