Business Excellence Consortium

Leading Change

Leaders impacting change

The one-day Leading Change module explores the essential need for committed leaders during Lean Manufacturing implementation. Participants will learn how leaders impact the change process and the fundamentals of effectively leading the organization through the transformation. The module focuses on establishing an environment for the successful implementation of Lean Manufacturing.

Topics include:

• Types of change?
• Why is change so difficult? Barriers to change
• Stages of change
• What is a change agent?
• The relationship of leadership and management to successful change
• Skills required to effectively implement change  
• Providing support for change
• What is culture? What does it mean to you?
• How does culture effect change?
• How do cultures resist change
• How to overcome resistance
• Planning and designing a change model
• Kotter’s eight-stage change process

Upon completion, you will be able to:

• Know how to successfully implement organizational change
• Know the skills and techniques for effectively leading change
• Understand why change often fails
• Understanding of current culture and its impact on change efforts
• Understand how leaders impact change
• Understand the role of the leader on the team
• Know an effective model for implementing and sustaining change