Is your organization experiencing growth, driving innovation or navigating disruption? If so, you’re not alone. Organizational change is inevitable in the modern business world and, for those who want to remain competitive, the ability to manage change is critical.
In this online program, you’ll learn to develop a strategy for sustainable change and gain the knowledge required to implement and oversee change initiatives while managing resistance from stakeholders. You’ll also develop the insight to maintain agility, effectively manage aversion to change, and ensure that change is sustainable through building and leading a learning-ready organization. Most participants can expect to dedicate 4-6 hours per week to watching the lectures, participating in discussions and completing exercises.
Programme Content
Module 1: Formulating a Strategy for Change
Understand the importance of strategy to create change and learn to write an effective strategy statement
Identify the key elements of an effective strategy statement
Practice writing a strategy statement
Critique an organization's strategy statement
Interview with Juli Duty, Founder and Executive Director, United Sound, Inc. – "Redefining Executive Strategy"
Module 2: Organizing for Change
Explore the importance of designing an organization effectively to manage change
Relate the importance of an organization's structure to its competitive advantage
Articulate the best approach to change an organization's design
Module 3: Metrics and Motivating for Change
Explore how the application of metrics can create motivation for change
Use metrics and measurement to motivate for change
Analyze data to determine the alignment between an organization's strategy and structure
Determine how an organization should change to align its strategy and structure
Module 4: Organizing for Execution and Innovation
Explore the use of social network structures as a way to foster execution and innovation
Articulate how to organize for closure versus brokerage
Determine whether an organization is designed for closure or brokerage
Analyze an organization's informal social networks and deduce whether it is structured for execution or innovation
Recommend changes to an organization's informal social networks to foster execution and innovation
Module 5: Building and Leading Learning-Ready Organizations
Develop a framework for creating a learning-ready organization for a competitive advantage
Identify the core concepts of a learning-ready organization
Determine the learning-readiness of an organization
Apply the concept of learning-readiness to organizational alliances
Deduce appropriate social networks to facilitate a learning-ready organization
Module 6: Becoming and Remaining Agile
Discover the importance of strategic and organizational agility to implementing change
Identify what agility is and discuss it in the context of organizational strategy
Indicate ways to become more agile
Apply tools to increase strategic and organizational agility
Module 7: Managing Resistance to Change
Examine the hurdles to implementing change and ways to overcome them
Identify different types of innovation and how innovation leads to resistance
Determine the risks associated with stakeholder perception to disruptive innovation
Recommend ideas to manage resistance to change
Interview with Adam Galinsky, Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business; Chair of Management Division, Columbia Business School, Columbia University – “Creating a Sense of Disruption”
Interview with Loran Nordgren, Associate Professor of Management & Organizations – “Managing Resistance to Change and the Importance of Persuasion”
Interview with Nicholas Pearce, Clinical Associate Professor of Management & Organizations – “Leadership, Purpose and Courage”
Module 8: Making Change Sustainable
Ensure the long-term survival of your change management plan
Understand the difference between installing change and implementing change
Investigate an organization's ability to sustain change
Predict whether a change management plan is likely to be sustained or not
Interview with Sally Blount, Michael L. Nemmers Professor of Strategy – “Sustaining Change”
Interview with Stephen King, Adjunct Professor of Executive Education – “Forming a Culture and Using Dialogue that Sustains Change”
Programme Audience
Senior and middle managers who want to drive strategic change at a company, as well as team level
Decision makers who need to navigate disruption in their industry with a change management strategy
Professionals in change management and HR who need to implement large-scale change in an organization
Leaders of small businesses looking to effectively manage growth and scaling
Programme Benefits
Develop a strategic approach to change management that aligns with your organizational strategy and design
Gain the practical tools for implementing sustainable change in your business, while managing resistance from stakeholders
Understand how to build a learning-ready organization in order to remain agile and gain a strategic competitive edge
Learn from expert Kellogg School of Management faculty
Engage with an international network of like-minded professionals
Testimonials
"I thoroughly enjoyed my experience taking this course. I thought the content was both engaging and informative. The mix of forums, readings and videos kept me engaged throughout the course. I've already identified several ways in which I plan to bring information learned via this course back to my organization to better arm us to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment."
Anonymous
"It was really impressive. The knowledge was jumping out of the videos, the articles and the case studies. It seemed so real you forget that it was an online course. An excellent learning experience, not too easy and not too hard. The interaction with the classmates was very interesting and helpful, very glad to share experiences and opinions with other people with different perspectives."
Anonymous
"My company is currently going through several deep change initiatives to position us for future success. This program has prepared me to help lead my company through these initiatives. This is a must take program for anyone looking to progress their careers in leadership!"
Anonymous
"Having worked in strategy for a little while now, Ive always been highly interested in how organizations and mostly the humans in them can navigate ambiguity and change. The capacity to align, on an ongoing basis, the strategy to an organizational structure and culture is critical to drive success and react to disruption. I wanted to get better at understanding how to achieve this."
Anonymous
"Ive been lucky enough to complete the Strategic Change Management program from Northwestern Universitys Kellogg Executive Education. In addition to being the perfect mix of theoretical backbone and practical tools thoughts it made me think about how much I could become a better leader."
Anonymous
"Hats off to Prof. Ned Smith, PhD for building this program, it exceeded my high expectations."
Anonymous
"Not only am I very happy to have completed it, I am now looking about whats the next step to pursue that interest as it sparked a desire to explore even more."
