Leading in Change
You and your team during tough time of transition
This workshop teaches a sensible, people-friendly and agile approach to difficult and complex changes in the organization.
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Are you looking for a program for a group of leaders in your company?
If you want to learn about the offer for this training (also in English) in a form tailored to your needs, please contact us at: biuro@leadersisland.com
Contents
Spis Treści
Workshop’s description
Leading in Change is a two-day workshop for leaders who want to be well prepared to effectively lead their team/organization through a period of difficult and complex changes.
Learn
During the workshop, you will learn adaptive strategies for dealing with changes in the organization and effective tools and frameworks, which you will have the opportunity to practice under the supervision of an experienced mentor.
Get inspired
You will have the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge and experience of your mentor. You will be inspired by the solutions used in the case studies discussed and you will receive a solid dose of knowledge and practical tips.
Put into practice
The most important element of this workshop is practice. By using the form of experiential learning, you will acquire and develop key competencies that will support you in your everyday work.
Not every change can be analyzed, planned in time, implemented, and then just followed by looking at the metrics and enjoying the result. In fact… we rarely see such a process, regardless of the number of advice-givers trying to introduce us to ready-made change management frameworks.
During this workshop, we will deal with changes that do not have a clearly defined final state and learn how to effectively manage such situations.
Workshop’s program - scope
“Leading in Change” are two days full of knowledge, practical exercises and specific tips that will give you a solid basis for conscious management of changes that evolve over time and do not have a clearly defined final state.
Recognizing the situation
We will start by looking at the three phases of the transition process as described by Bill Bridges: the “goodbye/ending phase”, the “neutral/no man's land” phase, and the “new beginnings phase”. We will practice the ability to properly close and end chapters in the team's life. We will learn to inventory losses and anticipate threats.
Changes and the emotional dimension
Changes are always accompanied by emotions. In the next step, we will learn the simplest and best way to organize reality by looking at and naming emotions in the workplace (especially those that accompany loss). We will solve several difficult case studies that will show different shades of emotions and we will learn to talk to employees about changes, ask them open, strong questions, and listen carefully.
Management strategy
Then we will develop a strategy on how to wisely lead the team at a time when the old one is gone and the new one is not yet visible. We will talk about how to maintain energy, motivation and willingness - so as to be ready to start work "anew" when the right time comes.
Commitment to change
In the last step, we will talk about self-organization, skin-in-the-game, giving responsibility and employee networks. We will unravel several cases where the change was not carried out well and the teams returned to the old order immediately after starting. We will practice in practice how to create new, strong habits in a team, how to close feedback loops, and how to forge new paths amid chaos.
What will be your takeaways from managing in change workshop?
- The ability to recognize what type of change you are dealing with and what tools are worth using.
- Practical case studies that will inspire you and guide you to action.
- Ability to listen and conduct natural, unforced conversations about emotions with employees.
- A simple and effective framework for communicating and asking questions that open up new solutions.
- Ability to conduct difficult conversations about loss in the process of change.
- Adaptive, evolutionary strategies for maintaining energy, motivation and willingness to change in the team.
- Ability to create informal structures to support change and reduce gossip.
What others think about this training
Leading in Change is a solid basis for conscious change management.
The trainings I took part in thanks to Leaders Island were a unique experience for me, something like a game that you can get into and don’t want to leave. What was particularly valuable to me was the intimate atmosphere, interesting case studies, workshop form of classes and immediate feedback, thanks to which I learned to methodically approach difficult challenges while feeling that I was in control of the situation at all times.
Well-prepared mentors and precisely refined scenarios of extreme managerial situations perfectly prepare you to deal with “ordinary” professional conversations. The mantra “expect the unexpected” and experiencing the truly unexpected gives you a sense of readiness to cope with even the most difficult situations. The best training I have ever attended.
So far, I have spent 5 days on Leader’s Island trainings with my team. This was enough to completely change my previous opinion about the development of soft skills. Moreover, the word “training” unimaginably reduces what happened during these meetings. What Leader’s Island gave us is a completely different level of approach, thanks to which the workshops are a profound experience that I recommend to everyone.
The level of knowledge that the gentlemen from LI have and the perfectly refined and attractive form of transmitting it is 100% engaging. Through this wide-open channel, knowledge flows into the mind in an extremely practical and experiential way. This is the other end of the spectrum from theories from books. Despite my analytical mind, I still don’t know how They do it. I feel like after leaving the cinema from the movie “Fight Club” and I will gladly go to the next screening 🙂
The training organized by Leaders Island is, above all, very well-suited to the level of knowledge and experience of the participants, and at the same time full of professionalism. The topics, stories and examples discussed are specific and authentic, and it seems that every Leader has or will soon encounter them in practice. In addition, the mentor’s extensive experience, incredible commitment and individual approach are admirable and influence the participants’ motivation to act, change and leave their comfort zone. And all this in a very friendly, natural atmosphere. I recommend experiencing it for yourself, because in fact, a leader at ANY level of advancement will be able to find valuable tips to implement in both their professional and private life.
Meet this training’s mentors
I lead agile transformations of complex organizations, talk to leaders and teach teams how to work in unpredictable environments.
I help current and future leaders find meaning in what is happening, love people, products and their users.
I have been serving as a leader (in the fields of User/Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Navigating Change) and a teacher and coach (Agile, Scrum) for many years.
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FAQ
You can find the nearest date above. If you want to know the next ones, write to us at: biuro@leadersisland.com
The workshop is held on-site in Krakow (Podole 60 street) and runs from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM / 5:00 PM (with a 1-hour lunch break); online, or at the client’s premises in the case of closed training sessions.
Yes. The “Leading in Change” training is also available in English, as well as online If you are looking for more information, write to us at: biuro@leadersisland.com
No. You just need to arrive at 9:00 AM at the Krakow Technology Park, at Podole 60 street (unless other organizational information was provided, e.g., for a closed group training).
At the main reception desk, you need to collect an access card and sign the attendance list, and then head to the training room. The way to the room is marked with “Leaders Island” signs. In case of any problems, please call: 885 548 003 (Aleksandra Stoch).
You can find all the information in our training regulations at this address. If you have any additional questions, write to us at: biuro@leadersisland.com
The ONLINE workshop does not differ in any way in terms of content or the value delivered, compared to the classroom training. All elements that influence the interactivity of the workshop, the engagement of the Participants, and the laboratory form of this experience have been preserved. We collect highly enthusiastic feedback in our surveys after online workshops.
Not at all. Our motto is building awareness and developing competencies in practice; theory is just an addition. The years of business and psychological experience of our practitioner-mentors, interactive exercises, time for feedback and conversation with the mentor, and group discussions build lasting change and enrich the “craft of a leader“. We also enrich the topics of the workshops with the results of the latest research in the field of business psychology and sociology, such as the “Leadership Competence Index“. Evidence-based development and conscious leadership are crucial to us.
The workshops cover, among other things: working with resistance to change, with difficult emotions of co-workers, communication during change, or planning a change that is changing 🙂 The program places great emphasis on working in difficult moments, under time pressure and emotions. We build a real “craft and toolkit” for leaders to help develop conscious leadership.
The main mentor of the workshops is Adam Jaworski, who implements change and builds teams operating effectively in change, in companies such as Dell or ABB. For many years, he has served as a leader (in the fields of User / Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Navigating through changes) as well as a teacher and coach (Agile, Scrum). He is also an organizational psychologist and a coach accredited by the International Coaching Federation. He is one of our many practitioners who have experience not only in working with leaders but also in extreme situations in a business context.
Yes, it is possible to organize a closed, dedicated program for company groups. We then work with the group on scenarios adapted to the company’s needs related to change in the organization.
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