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Slide 1: Change, Challenge & Innovation
Slide 2: Program Objectives (1 of 2)  Describe the basic dynamics of the change process -- the stages people go through and why.  Identify the challenges for the organization, the employee, and the manager during change situations.  Understand and apply specific guidelines in dealing with people’s natural resistance to change. www.readysetpresent.com Page 2
Slide 3: Program Objectives (2 of 2)  Use the opportunity of change to foster innovative ideas and solutions.  Generate an action plan to enhance your skills at dealing with change.  Learn why your leadership is so critical during change. www.readysetpresent.com Page 3
Slide 4: A Challenge Please write a One Sentence Definition of CHANGE. www.readysetpresent.com Page 4
Slide 5: Definition To cause to be different, to alter. www.readysetpresent.com Page 5
Slide 6: Organizational Change (1 of 4) Studies in the last 5 years show:  Organizations expect to cut an average of 15% of their workforce.  The one hundred biggest mergers in the U.S. during a recent year affected four and a half million workers.  In the past five years more than 12,000 U.S. companies and corporate divisions have changed hands. www.readysetpresent.com Page 6
Slide 7: Organizational Change (2 of 4) Studies in the last 5 years show  The takeover trend is increasing. It is more than double what it was in 1985.  U.S. manufacturing needs to increase productivity dramatically to remain competitive with foreign industry. www.readysetpresent.com Page 7
Slide 8: Organizational Change (3 of 4) Studies show that in the last 20 years The proportion of married women who work outside the home doubled, now including more than half of all wives. The proportion of families with at least two wage earners passed the 50 percent mark. www.readysetpresent.com Page 8
Slide 9: Organizational Change (4 of 4) Studies show that in the last 20 years The median amount of schooling of the whole labor force moved past a year of college. Flex-time has grown to around the 10 percent mark. G.M. and U.A.W. consummated the first "quality of work life" cooperative. www.readysetpresent.com Page 9
Slide 10: Responses to Change www.readysetpresent.com Page 10
Slide 11: Questions www.readysetpresent.com Page 11
Slide 12: Questions  What are the changes affecting your organization?  How is your organization responding to these changes?  How are your organization's responses to change affecting the way you manage people? www.readysetpresent.com Page 12
Slide 13: Quote  "The adaptive corporation needs a new kind of leadership. It needs 'managers of adaptation' equipped with a whole new set of non-linear skills. Above all the adaptive manager today must be... willing to think beyond the thinkable -- to re-conceptualize products, procedures, programs, and purposes before crisis makes drastic change inescapable.” • Alvin Toffler, The Adaptive Corporation. www.readysetpresent.com Page 13
Slide 14: Fantasies About Change www.readysetpresent.com Page 14
Slide 15: Recognizing Resistance www.readysetpresent.com Page 15
Slide 16: Turn Avoidance into Acceptance www.readysetpresent.com Page 16
Slide 17: What is your next step? www.readysetpresent.com Page 17
Slide 18: Download “Change” PowerPoint presentation at ReadySetPresent.com 125 slides include: organizational change, maintenance organization, parallel organization, fantasies about change, controlling change, describing change, 5 stages of change acceptance, turning avoidance into acceptance, understanding loss, resistance, the 4 phases of change transition, strategies for each phase, management of each phase, 3 standard stages of change, communicating about change, ways for stifling innovation and more. Royalty Free – Use Them Over and Over Again. www.readysetpresent.com Page 18