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Opleiding: Change Management Workshop

Learning purpose

Panta rei, Greek proverb meaning, everything changes.

Everything is subject to a constant evolving process. Markets, products and technology change. As change becomes cumulative, the systems they affect become more complex, while uncertainty increases, resulting in a decline in productivity and commitment for those in the trench-lines. The outcome: assured losses in resources, both economic and human, and an immense likelihood of adding to the alarming rate of failure that accompanies change processes.

 

It is therefore evident that the single most important core competency to develop today, both for organizations and the executives who manage them, is to learn how to consistently and effectively manage the emotional and rational aspects of change and the positive implications change processes can offer their organizations.

 

IE Business School’s Change Management Workshop offers an in-depth view of the step-by-step process: conceptual, disruptive, theoretical, practical and finally, tactical approaches to change as well as, the holistic frameworks needed to understand how the process of change affects the core pillars of organizational strategic management: capital, talent and technology, and how firms can learn to harness them to obtain their given business objectives.

 

Target audience

The workshop has been designed to improve the leadership capabilities and skills of professionals who detect the necessity and/or are immersed in change processes within their organizations, including those who are in the process of, or are about to take on concrete change processes, such as, mergers or acquisitions, implantation of IT solutions, strategic or operational management shifts, to just name a few. The program is oriented towards a multidisciplinary, cross-industry and international audience.

 

The program is particularly targeted at:

• CEOs.
• Managing Directors.
• Senior and General Managers.
• Divisional and Functional Managers.
• Business Development Managers.
• Strategy Consultants.
• Chief Project Officers and Project Managers.
• M&A Managers.
• Human Resource Department Heads.

 

Programme

IE Business School’s Change Management Workshop is taught by Professors Jesús V. Izquierdo and Miguel Ángel Serrano who address numerous issues of concern, including:

 

Understanding the philosophical structure of change
These sessions will explain how change often has external drivers and forces that can be detected, corrected and/or rebalanced with the use of organizational resources.

 

Grasping the conceptual structure of change
During these sessions diagnostic tools, source selection processes, indicator identification and strategic analysis will be presented to foresee difficulties in change processes.

 

Guiding your organization through change processes
Change does not necessarily imply revolution. Understanding change as a part of life is required to prepare organizations to adequately affront adaptive changes and shifts. The ability to correct the ship’s course offers a distinctive cost-effective driver.

 

Change management: Changing management thinking
There are several types of change, and not all of them require the same mindset or preparation. Different types of thinking serve different types of change processes.

 

The backbone: Your Corporate Values
When managing change processes we may loose sight of some fundamental concepts such as, corporate values. That is why looking at the DNA of the organization is a fundamental step to ensure the correct change strategy.

 

Systemic thinking for change management
Organizations are open systems. Understanding the fundamental structure of systems and how they function can help to better decide which drivers, levers or resources may be crucial for specific change processes.

 

External and internal markets
External and internal markets send signals and messages to corporate systems that can help management to recommend better change alternatives for their organizations.

 

Disruptive thinking
Through the use of disruptive thinking tools, we will discover the key to generating new thinking methods that assist change processes.

 

Innovation and Institutionalization: Spark, hub, take off
Innovation is, through its multiple facets, the perfect ally for change. Understanding the environmental conditions that drive creativity is a priceless tool when generating a culture of risk-taking that supports new project developments.

 

Changing culture and leadership
At the end of the day a successful change process should also provoke a cultural rebirth within the organization, transforming it into a flexible learning system. Leadership is the key channel for this process.

 

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