All Change Is Personal Even For Leaders

"Change" - It is a word that just won’t go away. One only needs to turn on the television, open a newspaper or look at the computer to recognize that regardless of your industry or market, you and your organization are facing more change, more ambiguity, and more flux than ever before. Whether change is viewed in a positive light or as a challenge, everyone is affected by change.  Change is hard because it means letting go of the familiar and approaching a new, unfamiliar and often uncertain, future. The resulting uncertainty often leads to wide spread anxiety within an organization, and it is this anxiety that often drives resistance to the imposing change initiatives.

The research reports that approximately 70% of all organizational change initiatives fail to reach their intended goals. For organizations to be effective in implementing change, they will need to learn how to win over both the hearts and minds of their people to enable them to be flexible and open to new ways of doing things AND stay productive through the change process – an essential element for any organization that wants to stay competitive and successful, both today and in the future.

The Virtual Workshops

These virtual workshops are rooted in IHHP’s emotional intelligence principals and will provide participants with a new understanding of the emotional side of change and simple-to-apply strategies.  Participants will be taken through an intensive, practice-driven learning process to help develop the skills needed to both personally manage change, as well as have a positive impact on others during change.  It will provide a “how-to” proactive approach to managing resistance before problems arise and important change initiatives are derailed.  Finally, it will provide the foundational elements to ensure people feel valued, supported and heard during any type of change event.  The result of these workshops will be that people and organizations will be able to remain connected and stable even if the environment around them is not.

The first workshop will focus on the personal nature of change and the second workshop will focus on tools to lead a team through change.

Workshop #1:

• Examine the personal side of change and the driving science behind why people, teams, and organizations respond the way they do to impending change;
• Increase self-awareness of the potentially negative impact that change has on you and your relationshipsand how to influence these dynamics for positive results;
• Explore the 3 states of change that all people and organizations move through and learn how to use them as an engine for positive change propulsion versus an excuse for negative change resistance.
• Learn how to manage the emotions that inevitably come up during times of uncertainty and practice techniques to increase your “uncertainty tolerance quotient”.

Workshop #2:

• Identify points in the change process where you can have the biggest impact on overcoming resistance and learn how to build clarity foryourpeople,engaging them in the new future stateof change more quickly;
• Practice techniques to communicate effectively during difficult and complex change initiatives even when you don’t have all the answers;
• Learn how to uncover the deeper, underlying driving emotions behind change resistance and apply strategies to help coach your people through the difficult transitions of change in a way that ensures they feel heard, respected, and invested in the long-term goals of change.
• Understand the power of small wins in moving and sustaining important change initiatives.