Details

Change perspectives include — but are not limited to — learning, innovation and reactive and proactive processes. Managing Individual and Organizational Change will initially focus on individuals in managerial roles responsible for leading, managing and driving 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.

The fee covers all program materials, program-related meals and housing in a private room at the Inn at Darden for the specified program dates.

This program counts as one week toward earning a Certificate of Specialization.

Audience

• 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.

Participant Profile 

• Chief, Operations Support Branch
• Contract Specialist
• Managers all areas
• Procurement Analyst
• Senior Directors/Directors all functions
• Senior Leader Development Specialist
• Senior Project Manager
• SVPs/VPs all functional areas

Recently Attending Organizations

Benefits

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.

This program counts as one week toward earning a Certificate of Specialization.

Topics

• 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  

Faculty

Martin N. Davidson
Associate Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Alexander B. Horniman
Faculty Leader. Kilgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration; Senior Fellow, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics