How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education

Lead the Charge: Become a Campus Change Agent

If you want to implement change on your campus, you need a framework to help you plan, work incrementally toward your goal, and position yourself for success.

This seminar gives you that framework.

If you would like to introduce a new or different concept to your campus, but you aren’t sure how to do it, this 40-minute seminar presents the change process as a multi-step methodology that you can adapt to any idea or endeavor.

Learning Goals

After this seminar, you will be able to:

• Create a sense of urgency around the change you want to lead
• Select a guiding coalition to lead the change
• Identify the key obstacles to the change you want to lead
• Empower employees to implement change by training, removing obstacles, and aligning evaluation systems
• Generate short-term wins related to change in order to build momentum for its successful implementation

This is a targeted seminar that delivers what you need to know about leading change.

Topics Covered

This seminar presents a proven framework that covers the various steps of the change process.

These include building a sense of urgency about a proposed change, building a coalition to lead the change, identifying obstacles, empowering individuals to overcome those obstacles, aligning evaluation systems, and generating incremental wins to prove progress and generate momentum.

Participants will also learn:

• That change doesn’t happen by authoritarian decree
• To work with colleagues to build a case for necessary change before launching a change initiative
• How to establish a guiding coalition to lead the change
• How to identify the key obstacles to address (and be sure you can address each obstacle before you ask others to commit to the change)
• How to generate quantifiable, short-term wins related to the change
• How to use those short-term wins to build momentum

Audience

How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education would be particularly useful for the following:

• Department chairs
• Deans
• Vice presidents
• Faculty members
• Anyone eager to have a department or school embrace a new concept, approach, or idea

Purchase

Fundamentally, change is not a decision. It is a process. Order today and begin your process.

Product Code: OC15AA