Guiding Constant Change (IN-PERSON)

Navigating and guiding continuous organizational change has now become a key organizational capability. It has become instrumental in enabling organizations to adapt to an evolving landscape, to be resilient in the midst of innovative technologies and to maintain an engaged workforce.

The outcome for this two-day in-person course is for leaders to come away with a new mindset and approach for guiding their organizations in an era of unprecedented and constant change. Focusing on developing core change skills, organizational leaders are taken on a journey to re-imagine how they perceive change, learning to lead with an incremental and iterative approach to change.

Together, we help you develop a sustainable change platform within your organization to enable you navigate emerging new ideas, concepts, challenges and opportunities.

​Key Topics

The course will cover a four-step model to guiding change from understanding your global systems, to designing an approach and change mapping. We will pull apart methods and practices from design thinking, traditional organizational change management and agile to help you better understand the why behind a tool so you can select a fit for purpose approach for your own organizational context.

We will focus in particular on:​

• Capabilities and Mindsets: the skills, capabilities, mindsets and principles for embedding a resilient approach to guiding change.
• Global Systems: Why we need to consider our influencers and degree of complexity before defining an approach to guiding change.
• Purpose definition: practical tools and tips for getting to WHY.
• Design: The basics of outcome identification
• Change implementation: how to do change mapping and the advantages and opportunities in leveraging agile approaches for organizational change implementation.

We will include the use of tools, models, frameworks and real-life stories to deepen the learning. The course builds on Agile, Design Thinking, Collaborative Design and ADKAR.

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding the drivers for a new approach to guiding constant change.
• Developing the ability to sponsor and implement new approaches to guiding constant change.

Who Should attend:

• Change managers, Agents of Change, Process Experts leading change.
• Organizational Leaders responsible for Change Product / Program.
• Individuals involved in modern digital transformation.

***As this course is in-person, coffee, snack and lunch will be provided****

About the Facilitators

Sandra Daniel, Openfield Institute

Sandra is a strategy and change designer and facilitator. She helps people design their own approaches for the emergence of new ways of working. Sandra’s specific expertise is in cultural transformation and public sector environments. 

Mack Adams, Alluvial Management Consulting, Inc 

Mack is an Management Consultant, Advisor and Facilitator who works with the leaders of organizations on aligning their teams, processes and products towards meeting strategic goals and outcomes.