A 2008 Corporate Issues Survey by The Ken Blanchard Companies ranked "managing change" as the #2 top management challenge. Now, the leadership experts at the Center for Creative Leadership offer a comprehensive Facilitator's Guide and workshop package that provides sound research, solid frameworks, and practical resources to help participants assess both individual and organizational patterns of leadership behavior in the face of change. Leaders who complete the program will be able to more clearly assess their impact and learn how to meet the demands of both managing the business and leading their people.

Leading Through Transitions: Facilitator's Guide

Business & Money

Wakefield, Michael

Bunker, Kerry

Management & Leadership

Pfeiffer

mastering the human side of change
Leaders are constantly challenged with the daunting task ofmanaging ongoing change and transition. Not only do they need tocope with the structural side (creating a vision, reorganizing, andrestructuring), but they are also on the front lines of the peoplepart of change (grieving, letting go, building hope, andlearning).
The Leading Through Transitions workshop and accompanyingParticipant Workbook provide you with the important information andtools needed to develop the key leadership skills that are socritical while facing unrelenting change.
As a participant in this dynamic one-day workshop, you will beintroduced to the Authentic Leadership Paradox Wheel, and you willbegin exploring the dynamic tension between six pairs of seeminglyparadoxical leadership attributes:
<ul>
<li>Being tough while simultaneously expressing appropriateempathy</li>
<li>Catalyzing change while understanding transition</li>
<li>Expressing a sense of urgency while retaining the capacity forrealistic patience</li>
<li>Being self-reliant yet trusting others</li>
<li>Radiating both optimism and realism</li>
<li>Capitalizing on strengths while fostering the capacity to goagainst the grain</li>
</ul>
Once you strike a balance with these behaviors, you can achieveauthenticity and trust. The maintenance of trust is the coreingredient required to lead others through difficult times.
The Leading Through Transitions workshop is based on soundresearch, solid frameworks, and practical resources. It is designedto help you assess your individual and organizational patterns ofleadership behavior. During the workshop, you will be given thetools to evaluate what's working, what's not working, and what'smissing. This grounded, real world learning experience will giveyou the confidence to meet the demands of both managing thebusiness and leading your people.

Leading Through Transitions: Participant Workbook

Help your leaders master the human side of change. 
Change and transition -- in most of today's organizations, theyare unexpected and frequent, monumental in scope, relentless, andincreasingly complex. Flux has become the natural state of mostorganizations. Many leaders are skilled at effecting and respondingto the structural side of change: creating a vision, reorganizing,and restructuring. But it is rare that they have mastered theskills to constructively manage the human side of change: grieving,letting go, building hope, and learning.
The Leading Through Transitions Facilitator's Guideprovides the information and tools facilitators need to conduct aneffective program that helps participants gain a deep understandingof the need to balance the dynamic tension between six pairs ofseemingly paradoxical leadership attributes related to managingchange:
<ul>
<li>Being tough while simultaneously expressing appropriateempathy.</li>
<li>Catalyzing change while understanding transition.</li>
<li>Expressing a sense of urgency while retaining the capacity forrealistic patience.</li>
<li>Being self-reliant yet trusting others.</li>
<li>Radiating both optimism and realism.</li>
<li>Capitalizing on strengths while fostering the capacity to goagainst the grain.</li>
</ul>
This comprehensive package includes background information onleading with authenticity in times of transition and introduces theAuthentic Leadership Paradox Wheel. It provides detailedinstructions for preparing and following up after one-day andtwo-day workshops and scripts for workshop delivery. The packagealso includes the two sample Participant Workbooks, a Wheel Poster,a Wheel Handout, and a flash drive that contains an electronic copyof this Facilitator's Guide, workshop agendas, and supportingPowerPoint slides.
 Praise for Leading Through Transitions:
"Wakefield and Bunker use the sum of their experience to capturea dynamic and flexible agenda to engage in the most relevantaspects leaders need to understand, experience and apply." -- Timothy T. Conlon , vice president, Human Resources, GlobalBusiness and Services Group, XEROX

Leading Through Transitions: Facilitator's Guide Set

mastering the human side of change Leaders are constantly challenged with the daunting task of managing ongoing change and transition. Not only do they need to cope with the structural side (creating a vision, reorganizing, and restructuring), but they are also on the front lines of the people part of change (grieving, letting go, building hope, and learning). The Leading Through Transitions workshop and accompanying Participant Workbook provide you with the important information and tools needed to develop the key leadership skills that are so critical while facing unrelenting change. As a participant in this dynamic two-day workshop, you will fully explore the Authentic Leadership Paradox Wheel, and you will learn what it takes to balance the dynamic tension between six pairs of seemingly paradoxical leadership attributes:   Being tough while simultaneously expressing appropriate empathy   Catalyzing change while understanding transition   Expressing a sense of urgency while retaining the capacity for realistic patience   Being self-reliant yet trusting others   Radiating both optimism and realism   Capitalizing on strengths while fostering the capacity to go against the grain   Once you strike a balance with these behaviors, you can achieve the authenticity and trust that are needed to lead change initiatives. The maintenance of trust is the core ingredient required to lead others through difficult times. The Leading Through Transitions workshop is based on sound research, solid frameworks, and practical resources. It is designed to help you assess your individual and organizational patterns of leadership behavior. During the workshop, you will be given the tools to evaluate what's working, what's not working, and what's missing. This grounded, real world learning experience will give you the confidence to more clearly assess your impact and learn how to meet the demands of both managing the business and leading your people.

Leading Through Transitions: Participant Workbook, 2-Day

The ongoing state of many organizations is one of change. People who experience major change tend to exhibit one of four patterns of response: entrenched, overwhelmed, poser, or learner. As a leader, you need to understand the patterns of response that people express and to customize intervention strategies to help them make the transition. People can pass through a given response stage and move to one that is more effective--especially if you provide timely intervention and support. This guidebook will help you understand how people, including yourself, are responding to change and what you can do to help them move forward.

Responses to Change: Helping People Make Transitions

Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)