Leading change series

Introduction to Change Management

Designed to increase your essential knowledge and practical skills in managing planned and unplanned change across multiple health settings.

This online workshop equips you to move beyond adapting to change. You will be equipped to discuss what makes change challenging or difficult in your workplace and identify a process for guiding change efforts towards a safer, more collective future. This is an essential next step in preparing for leadership and managerial responsibilities.

Key topics include: 

• What is change management 

• Change for impact 

• Change resistance vs readiness 

• Stakeholder engagement 

• Dealing with transition 

Learning outcomes: 

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Discuss what makes change challenging or difficult. 

• Identify and select change management tools for weathering change in turbulent times. 

• Identify key factors leading to change resistance and choose appropriate strategies to address this. 

Ready & Set for Change

Learn how to get people ready for change based on data and insights. 

Here, we will explore different techniques for engaging people early in the change process, and learn how to identify change resistance and navigate emotions before and during change. 

Through this engaging online workshop, you will be ready to address how to get people ready and willing to adopt change, using data-driven tools to manage resistance and build collective buy-in for initiatives.

Key topics include: 

• Why does change fail? 

• Types of resistance 

• Reasons for resistance 

• Cognitive vs affective responses 

• Getting people on board for change 

Learning outcomes: 

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Prepare people for change through collective readiness, engagement and communication. 

• Employ stakeholder engagement tools to navigate emotions and respond to change resistance. 

• Identify cognitive and affective responses to change and choose strategies to address this for change readiness. 

Making Change Stick

Acquire practical skills and advanced knowledge to implement change through connection and collaboration with stakeholders who have been sought for delivering and making change happen. 

This interactive online workshop moves you past the "how-to" of change and into the "how-to-keep-it-going." By acquiring these skills, you position yourself as a proactive, influential leader capable of delivering the desired sustainable change.

Key topics include: 

• Making the transition 

• Making change stick 

• Change leadership and negotiation 

• Teamwork and communication 

• The role of culture in change 

Learning outcomes: 

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Discuss and choose different approaches for weathering change during change implementation. 

• Adopt multiple techniques for transitioning towards change. 

• Navigate emotions and respond to change resistance with confidence.

• Identify key elements for effective teamwork in change management. 

• Describe different change leadership styles (particularly adaptive leadership) for relating, engaging and influencing others. 

Preparing for Negotiation

Hone your essential negotiation skills to prepare for negotiations and create an influential win-win strategy. 

This online workshop is not about adversarial bargaining; it's about structured preparation, understanding dynamics, and achieving collaborative outcomes - these skills are critical for the integrated, multidisciplinary environment of health systems.

Key topics include: 

• Types and principles of negotiation 

• Negotiation strategy goal setting 

• Negotiation styles and dynamics 

• Rules of negotiation - what matters? 

Learning outcomes: 

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Apply essential negotiation skills to become an effective negotiator. 

• Identify different negotiation styles to better understand the negotiation dynamics for collaboration. 

• Develop a negotiation strategy to be ready for different types of negotiations. 

Influence to Impact

Strengthen your ability to influence and inspire your audience to achieve goals, make change, and gain support. 

Our online Influence to Impact workshop provides the essential framework for strengthening your influential leadership capability so you have the ability to drive positive change and attain the desired outcomes for those impacted by change.

Key topics include: 

• Influence tactics and principles 

• Ethical communication 

• Active listening and impact 

• Emotional intelligence 

Learning outcomes: 

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Boost your confidence to influence ethically. 

• Identify the environmental levers that influence both motivation and ability, and how to work these levers for directed behaviour change. 

• Apply tactics to influence with impact in any health setting.