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Leading Organizational Change
Program Details
About the Program
Staying competitive in an ever-changing business environment requires a sophisticated understanding of organizational change management. You not only have to appropriately respond to changing markets but lead others through the transition as well. Leaders who excel in this role draw on their expertise in multiple business and leadership areas.
Experience & Results
This course prepares you to lead through organizational change as you:
- Learn the elements of a clear and compelling organizational vision and how this drives major change initiatives
- Model change behaviors and learn to develop a culture of teamwork and collaboration that supports transformation
- Learn fundamental elements of strategic management and how a firm’s strategy and strategic changes can enable organizational change
- Acquire tools and techniques for effectively leading and motivating organizational change
- Understand why transformation initiatives often face resistance and address the root causes
- Learn how to design and reshape organizational structures and systems to support organizational change and transformation
Please note that "Leading Organizational Change" was previously called "Leading Transformational Change."
Learn how you can customize this program for your organization.
Program Contact
- Email: croeckle@umn.edu
- Phone: 612-625-5412
- REQUEST COURSE CATALOG
Who Should Take This Course & Why
- Leaders involved with developing or implementing change initiatives, in any functional area
- Leaders with P&L or significant project/functional responsibility
- C-Suite
- Identify organizational change readiness
- Successfully plan, execute, and sustain significant change initiatives
- Avoid common change-related pitfalls and missteps
- Cultivate an organization that embraces change
- Establish leadership credibility in times of transition
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Schedule
Session Overview
- Understand the Need for Change: Learn how strategic changes can enable organizational change.
- Planning for Change: Learn how to support organizational change and transformation.
- Executing Change: Discover how various organizational functions and leadership roles support change.
- Change Simulation: Practice implementing an organization-wide change.
Session Overview
- Strategy and Change: Learn the fundamental elements of strategic management.
- Strategic Decision-Making and Judgment: Understand how to successfully navigate decision making.
Session Overview
- Leading Change from the Top: Acquire tools and techniques for effectively leading and motivating organizational change.
- Leadership Visibility as a Critical Success Factor to Change Success: Learn to lead visibly through change situations.
- The Human Element of Change: Reshape organizational structures and systems to support organizational change.
Session Overview
- Understand the Need for Change: Learn how strategic changes can enable organizational change.
- Planning for Change: Learn how to support organizational change and transformation.
- Executing Change: Discover how various organizational functions and leadership roles support change.
- Change Simulation: Practice implementing an organization-wide change.
Session Overview
- Strategy and Change: Learn the fundamental elements of strategic management.
- Strategic Decision-Making and Judgment: Understand how to successfully navigate decision making.
Session Overview
- Leading Change from the Top: Acquire tools and techniques for effectively leading and motivating organizational change.
- Leadership Visibility as a Critical Success Factor to Change Success: Learn to lead visibly through change situations.
- The Human Element of Change: Reshape organizational structures and systems to support organizational change.
Faculty
Mary Benner is the Department Chair and Professor in the Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship Department. She has a PhD in management from Columbia University, an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, and a BS in economics from the University of Minnesota. She joined the Carlson School in 2010.
Jeffrey Kaufmann is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship group at the Carlson School of Management where he teaches courses on Strategy, Managing the Strategic Process, Ethics, Leadership, and Competitive Economics. His interests focus on syst
Nathan R. Kuncel is the Marvin D. Dunnette Distinguished Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a McKnight Presidential Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Professor Kuncel, a nationally recognized leader in the field of industrial-organizational psychology, received his PhD from the University of Minnesota.
Alison Smith loves leaders and her passion is to inspire and support them to create extraordinary organizations. She is the founder of The Really Useful People Group, provides leadership development and leads the purpose ministry at Wooddale Church, and is part of the adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota and the University of St Thomas.
Dr. Zellmer-Bruhn is the Associate Dean of MBA and MS Programs and Professor in the Work and Organizations Department of the Carlson School of Management. She received a bachelor's degree in marketing, a master's degree in management, and a Ph.D.