Supporting and Sustaining Strategic Change
The final stages of a successful change initiative involve thoughtful planning and an ongoing effort to ensure lasting and meaningful impact. The Supporting and Sustaining Strategic Change course guides leaders on how to create a broader context that facilitates change. The course takes a thoughtful approach to building systems and processes as well as promoting skills and abilities that support and reinforce the change vision and desired culture.
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The final stages of a successful change initiative involve thoughtful planning and an ongoing effort to ensure lasting and meaningful impact. The Supporting and Sustaining Strategic Change course guides leaders on how to create a broader context that facilitates change. The course takes a thoughtful approach to building systems and processes as well as promoting skills and abilities that support and reinforce the change vision and desired culture.
The final stages of a successful change initiative involve thoughtful planning and an ongoing effort to ensure lasting and meaningful impact. The Supporting and Sustaining Strategic Change course guides leaders on how to create a broader context that facilitates change. The course takes a thoughtful approach to building systems and processes as well as promoting skills and abilities that support and reinforce the change vision and desired culture.
Discover how you can support your change initiative through a continuous process of planning, monitoring, and leading. Ultimately, you will also explore how to develop a congruent and adaptable organization.
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Learning objectives
- Skills to determine how to optimize systems and processes while maintaining organizational congruence.
- The ability to design systems and processes to support and reinforce the desired culture.
- Methods to incorporate feedback into your change initiative.
- The ability to propose approaches to sustainability that increase the likelihood of a successful change effort.
- Skills to determine how to optimize systems and processes while maintaining organizational congruence.
- The ability to design systems and processes to support and reinforce the desired culture.
- Methods to incorporate feedback into your change initiative.
- The ability to propose approaches to sustainability that increase the likelihood of a successful change effort.
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Review course materials
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Refresh your understanding of the course concepts by reviewing the provided materials. This will help you reinforce your knowledge and prepare for upcoming assessments.
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Review lecture notes, readings, and assignments
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Summarize key concepts and create study aids
Understand systems thinking
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Start by familiarizing yourself with systems thinking approaches and techniques to build a stronger foundation for understanding organizational change.
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Systems Thinking
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Review online resources on systems thinking
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Identify a real-world example of a system and analyze its components and interactions
Read Leading Change
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Gain insights from a seminal work on change management. Kotter's framework will provide a solid foundation for understanding the process and challenges of leading change.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads for Executive Teams
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Read the book and take notes on Kotter's 8-step process for leading change
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Identify examples from your own experience or observations that illustrate each step
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Participate in a mock change initiative
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Simulate a change initiative by working with a team to identify a problem, develop a solution, and implement it. This will provide hands-on experience in applying the course concepts.
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Change Management
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Form a team and identify a change challenge
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Analyze the current situation and identify stakeholders
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Develop a change plan and strategy
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Implement the change plan and monitor progress
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Evaluate the outcomes and make necessary adjustments
Design a change management plan for a specific organizational challenge
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Apply your understanding of change management to a real-world challenge. By developing a plan, you will practice applying the concepts and tools learned in the course.
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Identify an organizational challenge that requires change
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Analyze the current situation and stakeholders
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Develop a change management plan that outlines the goals, strategies, and timeline
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Present your plan to a group of peers or colleagues
Share your knowledge with a mentee
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Reinforce your understanding of the course content by explaining it to someone else. By mentoring another student, you can solidify your knowledge and develop your communication skills.
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Identify a mentee who is interested in learning about change management
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Meet with your mentee regularly to discuss course concepts and answer their questions
Develop a change management toolkit
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Create a collection of resources, such as templates, checklists, or case studies, that you can use to support change initiatives in your organization. This will help you apply the course learnings in a practical way.
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Identify the key tools and frameworks needed for change management
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Develop or gather resources that cover these tools and frameworks
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Organize the resources into a coherent toolkit
Review course materials
Show steps
Refresh your understanding of the course concepts by reviewing the provided materials. This will help you reinforce your knowledge and prepare for upcoming assessments.
Show steps
- Review lecture notes, readings, and assignments
- Summarize key concepts and create study aids
Understand systems thinking
Show steps
Start by familiarizing yourself with systems thinking approaches and techniques to build a stronger foundation for understanding organizational change.
Browse courses on
Systems Thinking
Show steps
- Review online resources on systems thinking
- Identify a real-world example of a system and analyze its components and interactions
Read Leading Change
Show steps
Gain insights from a seminal work on change management. Kotter's framework will provide a solid foundation for understanding the process and challenges of leading change.
View
HBR's 10 Must Reads for Executive Teams
on Amazon
Show steps
- Read the book and take notes on Kotter's 8-step process for leading change
- Identify examples from your own experience or observations that illustrate each step
Participate in a mock change initiative
Show steps
Simulate a change initiative by working with a team to identify a problem, develop a solution, and implement it. This will provide hands-on experience in applying the course concepts.
Browse courses on
Change Management
Show steps
- Form a team and identify a change challenge
- Analyze the current situation and identify stakeholders
- Develop a change plan and strategy
- Implement the change plan and monitor progress
- Evaluate the outcomes and make necessary adjustments
Design a change management plan for a specific organizational challenge
Show steps
Apply your understanding of change management to a real-world challenge. By developing a plan, you will practice applying the concepts and tools learned in the course.
Show steps
- Identify an organizational challenge that requires change
- Analyze the current situation and stakeholders
- Develop a change management plan that outlines the goals, strategies, and timeline
- Present your plan to a group of peers or colleagues
Share your knowledge with a mentee
Show steps
Reinforce your understanding of the course content by explaining it to someone else. By mentoring another student, you can solidify your knowledge and develop your communication skills.
Show steps
- Identify a mentee who is interested in learning about change management
- Meet with your mentee regularly to discuss course concepts and answer their questions
Develop a change management toolkit
Show steps
Create a collection of resources, such as templates, checklists, or case studies, that you can use to support change initiatives in your organization. This will help you apply the course learnings in a practical way.
Show steps
- Identify the key tools and frameworks needed for change management
- Develop or gather resources that cover these tools and frameworks
- Organize the resources into a coherent toolkit
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