Using Change as an Opportunity Sample Agenda

Goals

• Understand the cycles of change and the roles different people play in the process.
• Recognize and adapt to the emotional cycles associated with change.
• Learn effective strategies and skills for navigating through transitions.
• Use Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to help develop individual and group strategies for managing change.

Pre-Work

• Team members read the short book, Who Moved My Cheese, in order provide a common foundation for discussing change issues.

Morning Outline

• Interactive team challenge designed to help the team examine the way they manage change.
• Large group discusses strategies for staying positive and productive during periods of change.
• Exchange of personal change stories leading to common themes and helpful strategies.
• Large group discussion of strategies for change management given overall group MBTI preference.
• Breakout into functional groups to complete discussion questions about the Ladder of Inference.

Afternoon Outline

• Presentation of William Bridges Transition model that stages of transition associated with change.
• Large group explores current beliefs and behaviors that might inhibit change and identifies new beliefs and specific behaviors that may facilitate the transition through change.

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