Leading Change People, Process, and Purpose

Build your capacity to lead technical and operational change that actually works. You'll learn why change efforts stall, from resistance and burnout to poor rollout planning, and how to build change initiatives that stick using research-backed frameworks grounded in systems thinking and job and organizational design.

Most business courses that address change focus narrowly on communications or change management techniques. This course builds your capacity to solve the human and organizational issues that stall improvement.

You'll assess your organization's readiness for change, analyze real case studies of successful and failed change efforts, receive structured peer feedback on your own change challenge, and build a change strategy, implementation plan, and action plan to bring back to your team.

Who Should Attend?

  • Engineering and Project Professionals: Program Leaders, Project Engineers, Technical Specialists, and Engineering Teams
  • Operational Leaders: Frontline Leaders, Operations Managers, Engineering Managers, and Continuous Improvement Leaders
  • Strategic Leaders: Directors and Senior Leaders in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Supply Chain sponsoring or leading technical change initiatives

What You Will Learn

  • Explain why change efforts succeed or fail, and what causes resistance and burnout.
  • Assess your organization's readiness for change across five key work system dimensions.
  • Apply job and organizational design principles to redesign roles and shape organizational culture during a change effort.
  • Analyze real case studies of successful and failed change efforts.
  • Give and get feedback on your change challenge through structured peer coaching.
  • Build a comprehensive change strategy, implementation plan, and action plan to bring back to your team.