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Middle Manager as Change Champion

14 February 2025

This change leadership course for middle managers takes a systems approach to understanding change.

An important cornerstone of inspirational leadership is the ability to champion change (Zenger Folkman). This includes the ability to be forward looking, to possess a growth mindset, and to convey a continuous improvement orientation to the day-to-day work

HOW TO APPLY

Become a Change Champion and Empower Those Around You

Duration: 2 days

Price: $2,100 pp

Next Start Date: Tuesday 29 April 2025

Middle Manager as Change Champion: A Course Overview

This two-day learning event provides an opportunity to work through the key elements of managing and leading others during times of organisational transition at three levels of implementation:听 the organisation鈥檚 change strategy, aligning teams to support the change, and preparing team leads to support their members through individual transition.

The Business Case

New research shows that having more top-performing middle managers leads to much better financial outcomes (McKinsey). Leaders who are one below the executive-suite play a critical role in translating the organisation鈥檚 vision and strategic goals into reality through the effective leadership of change and transition.

Research has found that an important cornerstone of inspiring and motivating others is the ability to champion change (Zenger Folkman). This includes the ability to be forward-looking, to possess a growth mindset, and to convey a continuous improvement orientation to the day-to-day work.听

This two-day learning event provides a foundational framework for looking at change through three levels of implementation: the organisation, teams, and individual transition.

What this Course is about:

This change leadership course for middle managers takes a systems approach to understanding change.听 That is, the change is looked at considering the context 鈥 the interaction of structures, processes and people that contribute to successful outcomes.

At the organisational level, group discussion will centre on how the environment supports the 鈥榗ontagion鈥 of new ideas and how leaders can support the change through their efforts to 鈥榖ring to life鈥 how the change can have a positive impact on the organisation.听 We will look at what it means to be an inspirational leader and how this approach to leading change can help build strong advocacy or support for the change.听听

At the team level the course content will consider the fundamental elements of a change management process and the leader鈥檚 role in helping teams understand how their work aligns with the vision for change and the potential impacts on ways-of-working and shifting mindsets.听 Stepping through a well-established (Kotter) eight-step process for introducing, implementing and sustaining the change, we look at how the leader can support others through early awareness to readiness for implementation.

Finally, the third part of the course builds a practical approach for understanding and addressing the psychological process of personal transition and behaviour change.听 By understanding what is needed to bring about behavioural change for individuals, we draft a plan to manage resistance, buy-in and change readiness.听

Key outcomes for this two-day programme include:

DAY 1:

  • Measuring and evaluating success through assessment of change readiness and impact
  • Understanding complex change based on Malcolm Gladwell鈥檚 Tipping Point concepts听
  • Recognising two key aspects of a changing organisational system and defining your organisation鈥檚 seven levers of change听
  • Analysis of success/failure through a technology change case simulation
  • Understanding important archetypes found in organisational change dynamics


DAY 2:

  • Mapping eight steps to managing sustained change听
  • Creating and presenting a compelling 鈥榳hy鈥 for change
  • Building a communication strategy for managing resistance and building buy-in
  • Equipping team leads to support the transition process of endings to new beginnings
  • Understanding psychological enablers and barriers to transition听

Outcomes:

As a result of participation in the course participants will:

  1. Develop a change plan that emphasises the leader鈥檚 role in inspiring and motivating others听
  2. Design a bespoke approach for assessing your teams鈥 change readiness听
  3. Identify forces for and against the change and create a set of actions for mitigating potential setbacks in change management
  4. Assess your organisation鈥檚 level of change management maturity听

Who should attend:

This course is ideal for managers responsible for implementing a change strategy.听It will also benefit coaches and HR professionals who support mid-level managers in building change leadership capabilities.

Course Facilitator听

Michelle Shields

Dr Michelle Shields, MS Organisational Development; PhD Psychology, is a strengths-based HRD/OD practitioner.听 As principal consultant with Fulcrum Associates Ltd., she uses strengths-based approaches to help teams with strategy formation and culture change.听 She is an international partner of the Zenger Folkman Extraordinary Leadership practice employing strengths-based development for leveraging leadership at all levels.听 She has over thirty-years鈥 experience as a practitioner in New 麻豆传媒高清 and the US, is the founder of Culture First Canterbury, and is a Chartered Member of the Human Resource Institute of New 麻豆传媒高清.

Upcoming course dates

  • Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 April, 2025

Please note this course commences at 9:00am and runs until 4:30pm.听

If you wish to pay by invoice, please email us.

Location

Ilam Campus, 麻豆传媒高清

Price

$2,100 (including GST)

Course fees include catering (all dietary requirements catered for) and booking fees.

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