Generations in the Workplace




CHANGE

Adapting to Change (DDI)
Dealing With Changes (Achieve Global)
Helping Others Adapt to Change (DDI)
Leadership: Facilitating Change (DDI)
Managing Change (Achieve Global)
Personal Strategies for Navigating Change (Achieve Global)
Positive Responses to Change (Achieve Global)


Adapting to Change (4 hours)

If people wince, stonewall, or rebel when a change in routine is mentioned, there is a solution. When employees can adapt quickly, the entire organization becomes faster, more flexible, and better able to answer the demands of an increasingly competitive marketplace. This course develops the confidence and skills needed to face change and welcome it as an opportunity to grow and learn. (Techniques for a High-Performance Workforce - Personal Effectiveness)


Dealing With Changes (2-3 hours)

Explores the active role employees can take to help themselves and their organization adapt to change. Participants learn to understand the reasons behind the changes and to become participants rather than victims. (Working)

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Helping Others Adapt to Change (8 hours)

What is the cost and impact to your organization if workers are disoriented by change? This course focuses on the crucial role leaders have in effectively exploring change, introducing change, and helping others overcome resistance typically associated with change. Leaders learn how to conduct effective change discussions that minimize the potentially negative effects of change on morale, processes, and productivity. (Interaction Management - Tactics for Effective Leadership)

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Leadership: Facilitating Change (8 hours)

How your company handles change depends on how your leaders help people move from the disorientation stage to integration and acceptance. This module shows leaders how to make change a positive experience for others by focusing people on a shared vision, building business partnerships, championing ongoing improvement, and creating an environment in which learning is encouraged. (Interaction Management - Strategies for Effective Leadership)

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Managing Change (4 hours)

Participants learn ways to help employees turn potential threats into opportunities to contribute. (FrontLine Leadership)

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Personal Strategies for Navigating Change (4 hours)

The pressures of competition and technology are changing today's workplace. People need skills to deal with often-massive changes in work processes and to learn how people work together. This unit presents an approach anyone can use to navigate change and to develop personal strategies for dealing effectively with difficult transitions. (Learning to Lead)

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Positive Responses to Change (2 hours)

This course helps participants come to grips with their own resistance, weigh their options, find positive responses and encourage others to do the same. It fosters practical optimism by helping participants see the positive aspects of a new situation, rather than dwelling on what is lost. Participants: explore several reasons why people resist change; learn about the change dilemma: people naturally resist change, yet organizations need flexible people; and learn a wide variety of behaviors they can use to respond positively to change. (Work Skills)

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