Overview
The success of your organisation’s strategy depends on managers communicating and managing change. As a manager you are at the forefront of delivering change within your organisation, however you need the full support of your staff to achieve this.
By gaining senior buy-in, engendering an appreciation for change amongst your staff, and communicating your strategy to key stakeholders, you will be able to create a change-ready public sector organisation.
This course gives you the necessary tools to utilise your leadership skills to deliver change. Learn how to engage and manage staff through the change process, communicate change to your staff and overcome structural and organisational barriers to change.
Attend this Effectively Communicating and Managing Change training course to gain the necessary change management tools to identify and overcome obstacles to communicating and delivering change.
Attend this course as a stand-alone one day course or as part of our management series.
If you would like to attend more than one course in our management series, there are multiple booking discounts available: £100 off if you book two days and £200 off if you book three days. For more information please call 0800 542 9440.
David is a change management and commercial expert, with a passion for helping to create more effective services. He works with a wide range of organisations and their staff on developing their commercial awareness, bringing about culture change and developing and implementing effective strategies.
He has worked extensively across the public and private sectors, working with over 50 local authorities, many NHS Trusts, Central Government departments and Science Councils in the last three years.
David is passionate about translating strategy into action in a way that engages staff and develops buy-in and high levels of productivity. Read more
Learning Outcomes
- Engender the appreciation for change amongst your staff
- Develop communication strategies to enable change
- Gain buy-in from senior managers and staff
- Engage and manage staff through the change process
- Identify and overcome obstacles to cultural change
Agenda
- Part 2 – Effectively Communicating and Managing Change
- Part 1 – Effective Coaching and Mentoring for Managers
- Part 3 – People Performance Management
Registration
Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives
Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles to Change
- Assess structural, cultural and organisational barriers
- Examine practical examples of an organisation that has used change management tools to improve a service
- Utilise your leadership skills to overcome obstacles to change in a practical way
- Work in groups, to determine how you are going to bring about change within your organisation
- Utilise management techniques to influence the change process
Morning Break
Effectively Communicating Change to Staff
- Develop communication strategies to inform your staff about change
- Communicate your vision to your staff and key stakeholders
- Utilise practical tools to communicate change in a fast-paced environment
Communicating Change to Senior Managers
- Identify the key managers to speak to by using mapping techniques
- Learn how to pitch your vision to senior managers
- Effectively demonstrate the ROI for change to your senior managers
- Use effective language, style and tone to create persuasive communications
- Manage effective conversations with senior managers
Lunch
Workshop: Engaging and Managing Staff through the Change Process
- Engender an appreciation for change amongst your staff
- Highlight the benefits for change to your staff: career progression and professional development
- Gain full buy-in from all your staff
- Align your staff to your organisation’s corporate objectives
- Learn how to manage difficult staff throughout the change process
- Maintain morale throughout the change process
Afternoon Break
Workshop: Develop Organisational Strategies to Managing and Communicating Change
- Take a pragmatic approach to delivering change
- In groups and with the trainer take back an action plan to engage key stakeholders
- Ensure your organisation is ‘change-ready’
- Take to your organisation evaluation tools to ensure success
- Develop effective strategies to deliver change within your organisation
Feedback, Evaluation & Close
Registration
Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives
Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring Tools and Techniques
In this sessions delegates will be introduced to key tools and techniques including:
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- Coaching and mentoring models (GROW, OSCAR, CLEAR)
- Using the key skills of:
- Building rapport
- Listening
- Using intuition
- Questioning
- Providing feedback
- Language style
Morning Break
Part 1: Embedding Coaching and Mentoring Tools
Delegates will learn in the session the application methods of the following tools and techniques:
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- Action learning sets
- Perceptual positioning
- The rule of 3
Lunch
Part 2: Embedding Coaching and Mentoring Models
In this interactive session, delegates will develop key strategies for embedding the following coaching and mentoring techniques:
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- The stop model
- The NIP model for feedback
- The precision model
- The coaching circle
- STOKER
Feedback and Evaluation
Registration
Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives
The Principles of People Performance Management
- The performance pyramid – linking the individual to the organisation’s objectives
- 121s and appraisal
- Skills needed for effective performance management
Morning Break
Setting Performance Standards
- Developing your performance management matrix
- Setting individual objectives
- Getting the most out of role-modelling
Lunch
Make Performance Management Work for Everyone
- The performance management cycle
- Drivers of performance and understanding difference
- Structuring, preparing and sharing responsibility
How to Manage Difficult Performance Management Conversations
- The underperformer
- The superstar (and frustrated) performer
- The ‘does just enough’ performer
Action Planning
- Develop techniques to continuously evaluate staff performance
- Create practical strategies to improve performance
- Ensure your staff’s performance is matched to your organisations strategic goals
- Take back an action plan for people performance management
Feedback, Evaluation and Close
Venue
etc. Venues – The Hatton, London
