Change is inevitable. Disruption is certain. Is your team prepared? This new one-day course in Leading Organizational Change will bring to the surface unproductive leadership habits - and teach and reinforce better ones.
Whether it is integrating a new division or a shift in business priorities, those companies that manage change and buy-in well are resilient and gain or retain an competitive advantage.
This executive level workshop will give participants the confidence and competence to face disruption head-on with an immediate skill set to ensure their organization will thrive and endure.
Seats are limited to the first 30 applicants. A wait list will be available. This class is offered twice a year, and those on the wait list would have priority seating for the next iteration.
10/1/2020 8:30 AM - 10/1/2020 4:30 AM
James M. Collins Executive Education Center
$1,495; Group discounts available when multiple attendees from the same organization register together. Register 30 days before the program starts for a $200 early registration discount.
Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a certificate.
To learn more about the program, contact us at 214.768.3335 or exed@smu.edu
Manage expectations and reality
This helps employees set appropriate expectations for dealing with the challenges of change. Rather than ignoring the effects of change, provide employees with the tools and skills to be successful, then hold them accountable for using them.
Celebrate inconspicuous success
During times of change, productivity drops are unavoidable. Manage the depth and duration of these drops by helping employees create and celebrate short-term successes which will lead to long-term organizational success.
Communicate, communicate, communicate
A proper amount of communication is needed in order [something]. The correct amount of information and frequency and communication of the messages help ease the period where employees need for information is the greatest and management's ability to provide the information is the weakest.
Take more personal responsibility for results
Focus your energy on the things within your control and produce tangible results, rather than react poorly, place blame, point fingers and make excuses in the name of the boss, bureaucracy or other factors over which there is little or no immediate control.
You'll also learn:
To compete and succeed, companies need leaders in every department who can speak the dollars-and-cents language of business. Managers who can interpret financial reports, assess the impact of decisions and communicate operating strategies have a definite career advantage.
Diverse perspectives open doors to enhanced business success. A recent Boston Consulting Group study suggests that greater leadership diversity spurs innovation and boosts financial performance. On average, diverse companies enjoyed a 19% increase in revenue compared to their less diverse counterparts, and SMU Cox Executive Education offers award-winning programs to raise up the diverse perspectives within your own organization.
You are challenged everyday to uncover ways to create value for ever more demanding customers and their rapidly changing needs. A sound strategy can guide what you choose to do and how you choose to do it to survive, grow, and prosper.