Length: Half day session
Audience: All employees
The frequency of change in organizations and worksites requires leaders and employees to shift from thinking of change as an exception, to managing change as an ongoing part of professional life. Your ability to manage is imperative to your career success. Change often produces conflict as people follow a natural tendency to resist it.
The challenge is to build resilience or the capacity to recover quickly from change and the potential difficulties arising from change. Individual resilience involves behaviors, thoughts, and actions that promote personal wellbeing in the face of change.
People can develop the ability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from constant change - and maintain or return to a state of personal wellbeing - by using effective coping strategies. Strategies for improving our tolerance to change can help improve our productivity.
Desired Applications in the Workplace after attending the course:
- Become sophisticated in your understanding of change, and increase your resiliency during constant change
- Implement strategies to help yourself and others navigate in ever-changing environments
- Gain awareness of your ability to embrace change and create an action plan to improve this ability
Learning Objectives:
This introductory workshop will provide an understanding of the complexity of change, and how change is a constant in organizations.
This workshop will explore how to be an effective agent of change through motivating, inspiring, catalyzing, and potentially leading the change process.
Participants will learn techniques to increase their own resilience and skills for adaptability during times of change.
Facilitator: External - Jill Stewart (Holland College)
Location - Virtual
Upcoming Session: More sessions TBA in Fall 2024