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Responses to Change: Leading People Through Transition
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Responses to Change: Leading People Through Transition
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If you want to lead people to somewhere new, then you need to meet them where they are. One of the prevailing constants in contemporary organizational life is the experience of compounding waves of complex transition and change. The best laid plans for organizational and structural change are frequently undermined by a failure to exert strong leadership around the softer people issues.
Whether arising from economic, political, technological, cultural, or societal sources, the pace and complexity of change contribute to intense emotions that play out in organizations (and outside them as well). Such reactions as fear, insecurity, uncertainty, frustration, resentment, anger, sadness, depression, guilt, distrust, and a sense of unfairness and betrayal can make it difficult for leaders to set direction, encourage alignment, and gain commitment from the people who comprise their organizations.
This webinar presents a way of thinking about your response to change and about how others may respond.
This session will provide:
- Guidance in helping others to understand, manage, and cope with the ambiguity and transition of contemporary organizational life.
- Increased understanding of the different kinds of individual and organizational responses to change, and what you can do as a leader to help people move successfully through periods of transition.
- A framework to assess people's comfort/readiness with change and their ability to learn/capacity for change.
- Tips for leading yourself and others through a successful transition.
Maximizing the Value of the Webinar
- Invite others to participate. Structure a group "lunch and learn" session and invite other colleagues to attend.
- Debrief the lessons learned. Set aside time at the end of the Webinar to discuss takeaways, and how they apply to your group or organization
- Tap into your training budget. Ask your HR group or manager to underwrite the Webinar as part of your organization's ongoing staff development effort.
About the Presenter
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Kerry A. Bunker, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow and Manager of the Awareness Program for Executive Excellence (APEX)®. As Manager of APEX, Kerry oversees and delivers an intensive individual assessment, feedback, and coaching experience designed exclusively to help the most senior-level executives enhance their effectiveness as leaders. Included on the APEX client list are CEOs, presidents, and vice-presidents from Fortune 500 companies and a variety of other organizations in the United States, Europe and Canada. Kerry is also the Manager of Leading People Through Transition, a custom intervention aimed at helping leaders respond to the challenges of transition, ambiguity, change, mergers, and downsizing. In that capacity, Kerry serves as project manager and team leader for transition-based leadership development initiatives involving more than 2800 senior executives in organizations such as the Canadian Federal Public Service and the United States Postal Service. Prior to joining the Center in 1987, Kerry spent 11 years in a variety of Executive Development roles at AT&T Corporate Headquarters. His experience at AT&T included research on the nature of leadership and management during periods of ambiguity, change, and organizational transition, and on the unique challenges and stresses confronting women in leadership roles. Kerry also served as Co-Director of AT&T's Advanced Management Potential Assessment Program, the most senior-level assessment center in operation in the U.S. at that time. He has published books, articles and chapters in numerous areas of management and psychology. Some of his more recent publications include a book entitled Leading with Authenticity in Times of Transition, a Harvard Business Review article entitled "The Young and the Clueless" and a chapter in The CCL Handbook of Coaching entitled "Coaching Leaders Through Change and Transition." He appears frequently as a keynote speaker and workshop leader for major corporations, public sector agencies, and professional associations. Kerry is an industrial/organizational psychologist with a B.A. from the University of Montana, a M.A. from Western Michigan University, and a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. |
