Change perspectives include—but are not limited to—learning, innovation, and reactive and proactive processes. Participants in Managing Individual and Organizational Change will initially focus on individuals in managerial roles who are trying to lead, manage, and deal with the change process. The focus then shifts to groups and perspectives around the total organization. Throughout the program, emphasis is placed on the individual as both a manager and a model of change.

• Executives responsible for planning and managing firm-wide changes in strategy and technology.
• Managers and professionals seeking to improve their individual skills and abilities in adjusting to change in their work roles, organizations, and overall lifestyles.
• Those tasked with managing culture changes within their businesses.

Participants will return to the workplace with:

• A sharpened ability to manage personal change and change for others.
• An enhanced capability to analyze, understand, and manage change.
• Development of social/psychological strategies for effectively managing change in organizations.
• Discovery of the self-management dimensions of change.
• Increased understanding of the individual psychological and social aspects of the change process.
• Recognition of the significance of principles and values in managing the change process.
• The knowledge to differentiate between proactive and reactive change, as well as innovation, creativity, and learning.
• Understanding of the purpose and alignment of factors necessary to effect organizational change.

• Change as Growth: The Ultimate Personal Perspective
• Managing in Organizations: Organizational Change in Strategic Perspective
• Models and Concepts for Change: An Individual Perspective
• Organizational and Individual Change Issues
• Processes and Stages of Change: Individual to Organizational Perspective

• Chief, Operations Support Branch
• Director, Learning and Organizational Development
• Language Production Manager
• Manager, Network Operations
• Procurement Analyst
• Vice President/Chief Engineering and Technology Officer

Q. What's the best way to take advantage of this program? I know a number of people in my department who would like to take it. 
A. We encourage organizations to send several managers at once. This helps develop the critical mass needed to make change a part of your culture.

Q. I am not responsible for corporate change, but I am interested in this program. Is it for me? 
A. Managing Individual and Organizational Change has been designed for individuals interested in increasing their capacities for change and in helping their organizations change.

Alexander B. Horniman
Killgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration and Senior Fellow, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, The Darden School, University of Virginia.

Jeanne M. Liedtka
Professor of Business Administration, The Darden School, University of Virginia.