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Program Outline
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Drive Organizational Change
Changing Mindsets & Behaviors
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Drive Organizational Change
Crafting a Change Story
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Drive Organizational Change
Managing Stakeholders for Change
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Drive Organizational Change
Creating Change Momentum
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Drive Organizational Change
Sustaining Change
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Make Meetings Count
Framing & Synthesizing Meetings
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Make Meetings Count
Planning High-Impact Meetings
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Make Meetings Count
Effective Meeting Facilitation
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Make Meetings Count
Creating Accountability for Action
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Resolve Conflict
Disagreeing Productively
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Resolve Conflict
Tailoring Conflict Resolution Style
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Drive Organizational Change
Changing Mindsets & Behaviors
Influence people mindsets and behaviors to kickstart, drive, and reinforce change
Why this matter?
Change is hard and easy to resist. Great leaders recognize what change is critical and inspire people to do the hard work of doing things in a new way.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Analyze drivers of resistance to organizational change
- Learn the 4 levers for influencing others’ mindsets + behaviors
Drive Organizational Change
Crafting a Change Story
Craft a narrative to build conviction around the change you want to drive
Why this matter?
Change is hard. In fact, the majority of organizational change initiatives fail. To increase the odds of success, you need to communicate intentionally and build collective conviction.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Review the elements of a great change story
- Draft a change story to describe one company's situation
- Revise your change story to make it pop
Drive Organizational Change
Managing Stakeholders for Change
Lead change by managing key players thoughtfully
Why this matter?
One of the biggest reasons change initiatives fail is that teams spend too much time figuring out the technical details and not enough time on the human side of change. To drive large-scale change, you just have to bring people along.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Build empathy for stakeholders involved in organizational change
- Prioritize stakeholders to identify the key players
- Make a plan to engage each stakeholder and get them on board for change
Drive Organizational Change
Creating Change Momentum
Design and run small change experiments to build momentum for your larger goals
Why this matter?
Change is hard to initiate. Get change off the ground by taking strategic steps to build momentum for bigger change later on.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Identify common drivers of resistance to change
- Review 3 steps for building momentum
- Apply these 3 steps to one company's situation
Drive Organizational Change
Sustaining Change
Make change stick by weaving it into structured systems and processes of your organization
Why this matter?
Sustaining change is hard. Take intentional steps to keep the momentum and make change resilient to the issues you'll face along the way.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Identify 3 levers for sustaining change
- Practice pulling each lever to help change stick at one organization
Make Meetings Count
Framing & Synthesizing Meetings
Start and end the meeting for maximum engagement and impact
Why this matter?
Meetings can easily feel unstructured and long-winded. Great meeting leaders know how to masterfully focus the conversation and distill insights throughout the session.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Understand the importance of a meeting's opening and closing
- Practice how to deliver clear, compelling, and concise upfront framing and final synthesis for a meeting
- Apply it to your own role
Make Meetings Count
Planning High-Impact Meetings
Prepare meetings to move both minds and hearts of the participants
Why this matter?
Meetings, at their core, are about people. Great meeting leaders put participants at the center of meeting design to make the sessions truly impactful.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Draft a meeting plan for one company's situation
- Review mind and heart objectives for meetings
- Revise your original meeting plan to include these objectives
Make Meetings Count
Effective Meeting Facilitation
Facilitate your meetings intentionally to unlock everyone's best contribution
Why this matter?
Meetings are inevitably dynamic and unpredictable and upfront planning is often not enough to prepare. A big part of meeting success comes down to noticing what's being said, what’s left unsaid, and making real-time adjustments.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Analyze the factors that commonly derail meetings
- Review the People-Processes-Tools checklist for facilitating meetings
- Learn strategies to intervene and keep meetings on track
Make Meetings Count
Creating Accountability for Action
Establish meeting next steps with clear agreements
Why this matter?
A major pain point in many meetings is when they don't lead to any real progress. This is a common, huge driver of inefficiency in many workplaces.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Understand the consequences of sloppy agreements
- Learn what makes an agreement impeccable
- Practice making agreements impeccable
- Think about how to introduce impeccable agreements to your team
Resolve Conflict
Disagreeing Productively
Disagree with curiosity and tact to make the most out of your conversation
Why this matter?
While disagreements may be uncomfortable in the moment, if handled well, they’re a powerful force for change and innovation. What's key is disagreeing productively and respectfully.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Review 4 tactics for disagreeing productively
- Apply the tactics to handle a workplace disagreement
- Exchange feedback, reflections, and plans to apply it in real life
Resolve Conflict
Tailoring Conflict Resolution Style
Strategically adjust your conflict resolution approach by the nature of the issue and the parties involved
Why this matter?
The best way to handle a conflict differs by context. You'll be more successful by strategically tailoring your approach to conflict, instead of relying simply on a style you find most comfortable.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Learn the dual concern model
- Understand the pros and cons of different conflict styles
- Practice the model on a scenario
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