In Embracing Change, you'll learn...
- How to understand and overcome resistance to change
- The secrets to working effectively when everything is changing around you
- How to increase risk-taking behavior and become more flexible
- The 5 stages of adjustment following a dramatic change
- And much more!
More than ever before, organizations are evolving, innovating and changing to stay alive and competitive. And they’re depending on their employees to accept and support difficult changes in leadership, technologies, policies or management approaches vital to future success. Unfortunately, most employees initially resist workplace change and defend the status quo—it’s human nature.
With this valuable seminar, we make it easy and convenient for you and your organization to avoid resistance that can seriously impact your efforts, productivity and morale and ensure employees don’t just “survive” inevitable changes in the workplace—but flourish in the process.
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Understanding change+
- Identifying the pros and cons to our changing environment
- Understanding global change
- Learning how people respond to change
- Why some people thrive on change
- Uncovering the 4 types of organizational change
- Understanding the resistance to change
- Identifying the 3 steps in the change process
- How many days to break a habit?
- Understanding the principles for the individual in a fast-changing organization
How to work effectively, especially when everything is changing+
- Determining your internal and external obstacles to getting results
- Identifying and setting priorities
- How can we get the important 1’s and 2’s done first?
- What are the benefits and payoffs for getting the important things done first?
- A priority planning model everyone can use
- Understanding the 2 kinds of priorities
- How the Pareto Principle applies to change
- How to set ACTION goals
- Why organizing your priorities will help you transition through change
- How to analyze your daily task list
- Know your prime time
Tools to help you handle major obstacles to maintaining efficiency in a changing workplace environment+
- How to handle interruptions that keep you from getting things done
- How to use the USA method when you have to say “no”
- Taking ownership of the telephone
- How to take advantage of technology to save time
- Meetings, meetings, meetings—taking control!
The personal side of change+
- How to increase your risk-taking behavior and become more flexible
- The characteristics of personal hardiness
- Discovering the strategies to improve your personal hardiness
- Understanding the stages of adjustment following dramatic change
- Identifying how vulnerable you are to stress
- Typical signs of excessive stress
- How to cope with workplace anxiety
- Uncovering the ways we mishandle anger and how to work through anger related to change
- Understanding human needs and how to utilize that information when it comes to dealing with change
