Training Workshop - Enhance your Change Management & Change Capabilities for todays VUCA environment

Learning Objective of Module "Change & Transformation Management Process"

Participants will learn new approaches, techniques and tools that have emerged from research and studies, as to the causes of the high rate of change failures, and the successes in navigating Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) faced by many organizations today. They will also learn how to Manage Change & Development in line with how human systems definitively learn developmentally, thereby working with and bringing out the best in human nature, rather than antagonising and degrading it. On completion participants will understand and have used the advanced UDT Change Model & Tools.

Time commitment to workshop

4 Hours

Materials Provided

Unitary Developmental Theory and Organization Development (Volume 2) e-book

Module hand-outs, presentations and exercises (Digital versions)

Context of this workshop

Existing models for change management though useful, are not sophisticated enough to address today's VUCA environment. Transformation and Change initiative failures; remain persistently high. Organizations' their environments and ecosystems have become complex and very dynamic, and until now our management science understandings have focused on individual domains people, process, systems, etc. individually and not reflected the integrated nature and 'Inters' (Relationships, Connections, Dependencies etc). UDT has brought unprecedented depth and integrated science covering Psychology, Systems Theory, Economics, Learning Theory to explain in detail how all organizations and team function and perform, how to calibrate change plans and actions to assure sustainable traction and improvement, where building change capabilities are embedded in the method and tools.

Leaders, Managers and Change agents are biased towards 'Solutions' usually at the expense of poor 'Diagnosis'. All change requires new and improved Capabilities at individual, team and organization levels. The existing relevant capabilities need to be understood, and gaps and improvements identified and included in change actions and plans, thus allowing for calibration of actions to assure traction and target outcomes are achieved and the root causes of change failure are prevented. UDT based diagnostic tools and change action guidance will enable better change and transformation outcomes.

Learning approach

• Presentation by tutor of topics, concept or information

• Tutor led discussion of topic, concept or information

• Individual and group exercises as appropriate

• Selection & definition of post class 'Change Management' individual action learning project

• Tutor support for student in-organization/team project

• Institute 'Change Catalyst' certification of student on completion of 'Change Catalyst' project if requested.

Workshop Topics (Change Management)

1. Background to UDT: Failure Rates, Personal Experience of exemplar Failure, Emergence of UDT

2. The Model: Run through the Levels with some allusion to the Psychology because it reveals how people feel within organizations, resistance to change, etc. Highlight the 2 Divisions, Agility, Resilience, etc. Cover 3 Mindset Orientations. Briefly cover what it adds to Culture Change, and Organization Development

3. Flesh out the Change-Management process presented in the Literature and Book

4. The group is presented with a scenario, and a discussion is facilitated in using the model

5. Exercise for participants: Plan a Change Management intervention using the UDT process and present and discuss.

6. Brief outline of the remaining Modules

7. Follow-up planning an assignment in an organization and coaching relationship