Navigating Change through Teamwork
Business improvement projects invariably involve change and there are many reasons why such supporting change programmes falter.
People are the key to a successful implementation of change and team members must feel responsible for their contribution to the overall objectives of the company.
Successful change will have mobilised the hearts and minds of employees and teams, will make use of the most appropriate project management systems, and will monitor and measure the results.
Through this Lab, find out what generates personal and collective commitment to change, how to develop your team's capacity to deliver change and how to reinforce the benefits as change is taking place.
This Learning Lab will support your team by
- Pre-Lab work: Identifying a real business improvement project around which the intervention can be positioned. Providing relevant participant reading materials - Lab Notes - to support accelerated learning on the day. Taking a ‘barometer reading' of the organisation with an Organisational Change Profiling or Organisational Fitness Profiling questionnaire for the team.
- Exploring current methodology for managing / creating change e.g. the implications and applications of ‘E' and ‘O' Change theory in relation to your improvement project; dealing with ambiguity and complexity in times of change; problem-solving through a solution-centred approach
- Engaging team members in an experiential simulation, replicating a complex organisational scenario and its underpinning business processes and raising awareness of the need to align behaviours with a changing workplace environment
- Pinpointing specific areas of success & development for the team in their project approach
- Defining existing support mechanisms for teams experiencing change (resources, management, communication etc)
- A facilitated Thinking into Action & Road Mapping session
Post-Lab, we'd like to build on the momentum gained through the intervention and sustain the impact of the learning. Additional support may be required to ground the learning, provide coaching support to participants to review progress on Road Map action plans and identify and manage "road blocks" and "congestion"
Also within two to three months we will commit to re-running the questionnaire and compare this to initial baseline survey results. Carrying out a gap analysis will assist in identifying the extent to which the team is aligned with the improvement project change process, whilst indicating opportunities for future development.
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