April 28-29, 2020

LEADING & INSPIRING CHANGE

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INSPIRE A NEW DIRECTION

Change is constant. It’s how you skillfully navigate the process that sets you apart. Leading & Inspiring Change is designed to help you become a change agent and better understand reactions to change while elevating your overall skill set. You will learn how to create buy-in and direct major strategic shifts within your organization.

  • Course Length

    At Goizueta Business School

  • Typical Class Size

    For senior managers, leaders, and change agents who seek to understand the effects of change on both individuals and organizations

  • Course Investment

    Breakfast and lunch included

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This short course will run on April 28-29, 2020 and will fill up quickly.
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HOW IT WORKS

Over the course of two days, you’ll explore methods for identifying opportunities for change, change models and frameworks. You’ll look at how the change process works, including methods designed to help you anticipate both acceptance and resistance to change and how best to manage expectations. This course applies to the C-Suite Certificate with a concentration in Change Management and Qualifies as an elective for the C-Suite, Leadership, and Advanced Certificates.

Change with Confidence

Explore change models and frameworks to help uncover opportunities for positive change in your organization and strengthen your skills in overcoming the natural resistance to change. Learn how to build buy-in and raise morale, increase productivity, and lead the change process.

  • Assess the Current State

    Explore the current state of your organization to identify opportunities for change, and understand approaches to mapping change strategies for executing change initiatives.

  • Organizational Culture

    Uncover your organization’s culture and its anticipated acceptance of change initiatives.

  • Overcome Obstacles

    Identify strategies to uncover resistance to change and ways to acceptance of new approaches.

Course Takeaways

  • Examine Change Management

    Build practical frameworks for managing change by understanding and practicing tactics for influencing change in your organization.

  • Reduce Change Fatigue

    Understand the change process in the context of your organization’s culture so you can predict areas of resistance and develop strategies to reduce uncertainty and change fatigue.

  • Achieve Buy-in

    Utilize change management frameworks to organize initiatives and gain broad-based support.

Faculty Spotlight

  • Peter Topping

    Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management

    Experience-driven understanding and insights

    Peter’s expertise spans leadership, organizational change, human capital strategy and management, leading high-performance teams, cross-cultural leadership, negotiations, and conflict management. His courses include insights from working with organizational clients across industries, national boundaries, firm sizes, and sectors. As a consultant and executive coach, he understands the challenges facing today’s leading executives and offers practical knowledge that takes leadership to the next level.

  • Karl Kuhnert

    Professor in the Practice of Organization and Management

    Putting the “development” into leadership development

    Karl has built a career centered on growing executive talent. His expertise spans leadership development and assessment, decision-making AI, organizational change and development, and survey design and evaluation. Karl’s approach eclipses typical coursework by accelerating leaders’ maturation in how they see themselves and others, enabling them to become better leaders. He brings diverse consulting expertise – international companies, non-profits, and government – into the classroom, helping leaders foster stronger teams and develop more productive cultures.

  • Molly Epstein

    Professor in the Practice of Organization and Management

    Proven leader in communications and professional development—fluent in both

    Molly brings her expertise on change communication and intergenerational communication to bear in the negotiations and communications courses she teaches. Her grounding in business and language helps students speak the language of business confidently. Molly is known for her work in gender communication and consults regularly with Delta Air Lines. As Scholar-in-Residence at the Southeast’s fourth largest public accounting firm, she manages personnel development for its 1,000+ professionals. This expands her understanding of current challenges and opportunities facing today’s executives.

  • Richard Berlin

    Affiliate Faculty

    Specialist in strategic planning, organization development, and team effectiveness

    Richard Berlin is the North America Market Lead for Change Enablement at Avanade, a division of Accenture, and brings nearly 30 years of experience in business consulting. His areas of expertise include strategic planning, organization development, change management, board governance, team building, leadership development, new business start ups, and operations. Richard’s experience includes a successful track record with self-funded businesses, venture capital businesses, public companies, and non-profit organizations.

POWER UP YOUR CAREER

In our short courses, you will develop keen insight and build connections with leaders from around the country at Georgia’s only globally ranked Executive Education program.
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