W1-204 - Change Management for Project Managers
Date: Monday, April 14 - Tuesday, April 15 - 8:30am – 4:30pm
Description
Management is faced with two conflicting situations;
a) We must implement all Change that is necessary and,
b) We must resist all Change that isn't.
These are both obviously true and therefore pose a paradox and a Management Challenge;
a) How can we get people to embrace the Change that is necessary?
b) How can we create an environment that allows rational resistance?
This session examines the tools available to organizations to help them achieve what at first glance appears as an unsolvable conundrum.
Details: The presentation is interactive, thought provoking and guaranteed to generate good, deep, discussion about how Change is, and should be, implemented in an organization. An interactive discussion about Change itself. A presentation of the Virginia Satir Change process model, which consists of the following concepts:
Status Quo - What happens before the Change takes place. Foreign Element - The event that initiates the Change process. Resistance - Exactly WHY do people resist? Denial - What it is, and what you can do about it.
Chaos - The beginning of the learning curve.
Integration - Exactly how we regain competence.
New Status Quo - The reinstatement of the Status Quo.
An interactive exercise to demonstrate the validity of the model
Examples of applying the model in a work environment
Learning Objectives
Change is not an event, it is a process that takes time and has distinct stages
A certain amount of 'resistance to change' is crucial to ANY organization
People do not really 'resist' change, they resist being changed and uncertainty
The overriding importance and value of clear, constant, honest communications
Skill Level: Everyone
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Peter de Jager,
de Jager & Co. Limited
Peter de Jager is a speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to the Rational Assimilation of the Future. He has published hundreds of articles on topics ranging from Problem Solving, Creativity and Change to the impact of technology on areas such as privacy, security and business. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist and Scientific American.
He is best known to IT audiences for his efforts to create responsible awareness of the Y2K issue – For which he received several awards from IT associations and Govt. Agencies.
In addition to presentations and seminars on the topics above, he's written about a dozen regular columns. These include; Association Trends, CIPS across Canada, Enterprise, Globe & Mail online and Municipal World -
He’s spoken in more than 35 countries and is recognized worldwide as an exciting, humorous, provocative and engaging speaker. His audiences have included the World Economic Forum, The World Bank and The Bank for International Settlements.
His presentations and workshops are highly interactive, fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas and most distinctively - provocative. He forces you, by demonstrating conflicts between your stated beliefs and behaviours, to think differently about what you thought you knew. You can read much of his work in the publications section of www.technobility.com
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