Effectively Driving Change

Change & AdaptationManagement & LeadershipManagers≈ 20 min

Key skill: Change management

Summary

Make a change stick for the long run: diagnose the real reasons for acting, overcome team resistance, then roll out the transformation in three steps and embed it durably into company habits.

Target audience

Any manager or project lead tasked with promoting and supporting change within their organisation.

Learning objectives

Diagnose the 4 good reasons for leading change at work.
Understand what people do, why they do it that way, and what essential change is needed for greater productivity.
Reduce your teams' resistance to change
Roll out change in 3 steps: Unfreeze, Change, and Refreeze.

Module outline

ArticlesChanging for greater productivity, with Yves Morieux · Change is no longer a one-off event: the importance of a company's nervous system (leadership, cooperation, engagement)
Expert videoAn overview of Kurt Lewin's model (Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze) and its analogy with transforming a block of ice into a cone
AnchoringA quiz and true/false exercise to explore the topic further and cement what you've learned
Memo cardDownloadable memo card: the key takeaways from the expert video
CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment

Models & methods

Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze model; three-step context analysis (what they do, why, changing the context).

Research-based

Kurt Lewin's three-phase model, social psychology researcher; Yves Morieux's principles of context analysis.