Change, Challenge & Innovation

Program Objectives (1 of 2) Describe the basic dynamics of the change process -- the stages people go through and why. Identify the challenges for the organization, the employee, and the manager during change situations. Understand and apply specific guidelines in dealing with people’s natural resistance to change. www.readysetpresent.com Page 2

Program Objectives (2 of 2) Use the opportunity of change to foster innovative ideas and solutions. Generate an action plan to enhance your skills at dealing with change. Learn why your leadership is so critical during change. www.readysetpresent.com Page 3

A Challenge Please write a One Sentence Definition of CHANGE. www.readysetpresent.com Page 4

Definition To cause to be different, to alter. www.readysetpresent.com Page 5

Organizational Change (1 of 4) Studies in the last 5 years show: Organizations expect to cut an average of 15% of their workforce. The one hundred biggest mergers in the U.S. during a recent year affected four and a half million workers. In the past five years more than 12,000 U.S. companies and corporate divisions have changed hands. www.readysetpresent.com Page 6

Organizational Change (2 of 4) Studies in the last 5 years show The takeover trend is increasing. It is more than double what it was in 1985. U.S. manufacturing needs to increase productivity dramatically to remain competitive with foreign industry. www.readysetpresent.com Page 7

Organizational Change (3 of 4) Studies show that in the last 20 years The proportion of married women who work outside the home doubled, now including more than half of all wives. The proportion of families with at least two wage earners passed the 50 percent mark. www.readysetpresent.com Page 8

Organizational Change (4 of 4) Studies show that in the last 20 years The median amount of schooling of the whole labor force moved past a year of college. Flex-time has grown to around the 10 percent mark. G.M. and U.A.W. consummated the first "quality of work life" cooperative. www.readysetpresent.com Page 9

Responses to Change www.readysetpresent.com Page 10

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Questions What are the changes affecting your organization? How is your organization responding to these changes? How are your organization's responses to change affecting the way you manage people? www.readysetpresent.com Page 12

Quote "The adaptive corporation needs a new kind of leadership. It needs 'managers of adaptation' equipped with a whole new set of non-linear skills. Above all the adaptive manager today must be... willing to think beyond the thinkable -- to re-conceptualize products, procedures, programs, and purposes before crisis makes drastic change inescapable.” Alvin Toffler, The Adaptive Corporation. www.readysetpresent.com Page 13

Fantasies About Change www.readysetpresent.com Page 14

Recognizing Resistance www.readysetpresent.com Page 15

Turn Avoidance into Acceptance www.readysetpresent.com Page 16

What is your next step? www.readysetpresent.com Page 17

Download “Change” PowerPoint presentation at ReadySetPresent.com 125 slides include: organizational change, maintenance organization, parallel organization, fantasies about change, controlling change, describing change, 5 stages of change acceptance, turning avoidance into acceptance, understanding loss, resistance, the 4 phases of change transition, strategies for each phase, management of each phase, 3 standard stages of change, communicating about change, ways for stifling innovation and more. Royalty Free – Use Them Over and Over Again. www.readysetpresent.com Page 18