Description
This Package, equips managers to predict and respond to Change so that they can avoid or mitigate anticipated problems and exploit new opportunities. It provides a system, which can be, readily, incorporated into an organization’s routine procedures.
Training Materials
- Session Leader’s Guide
- Powerpoint Presentation
- Delegate Exercises (3)
- Delegates’ Briefing Notes
- Team Tutors’ Briefing Notes
Target Group
All levels of management and staff
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the Session, delegates will:
- Understand the essential nature and function of Organizations.
- Be able to identify and analyse Change in their Organizational Environment, evaluate its impact and develop suitable plans to respond.
Content and Structure
What is Change? – Group discussion and agreement on definitions.
Practical Exercise – Individual task, responding to the question, ‘What is an Organization?’. General Session debrief of Exercise and Tutor-led discussion to establish generic, organizational characteristics.
How Organizations Work – An examination of how all Organizations function; How an Organization interfaces with the Environment, in which it must conduct its affairs.
The Organizational Environment – The uniqueness of every Organization’s Environment; Identifying the influencing Factors in the Organizational Environment.
Team Task – In suitably structured teams, delegates identify and describe the Factors, in their own Organizational Environments and consider how events, occurring, within the Factors can exert influence on their Organizations.
Identifying and Evaluating Change – Delegates are fully briefed on the principles and application of the Change Action Model, memorialized in the acronym, VIPER.
V – Vigilance
I – Information
P – Processing
E – Evaluation
R – Response
The VIPER Team – Selecting team members; The four stages of team development.
Team ‘Modus Operandi’ – Briefing the VIPER team; The six stage Team Task Achievement Plan.
Team Task – In teams, the delegates apply the VIPER model, to Change, currently confronting their own Organizations. It is anticipated that, adopting the Workshop approach, will generate a range of imaginative options to deal with both positive and negative aspects of Change, that the delegates’ own Organizations need to deal with.
Final Questions and Session Summary
