Five Good Ideas for making organizational change work

In this session, you will learn about how to make meaningful and sustainable change in your organization. How do you integrate a new function or program into your current structure? How do you communicate with your teams to ensure that the change is not disruptive or disengaging? What implications are there for the existing teams and culture and how do you manage that? What issues do you need to anticipate and account for? Non-profit consultant Claire Forster will address these and other questions in her presentation.

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Five Good Ideas

1. Start with the end in mind
2. Communicate what it isn’t
3. Understand that employees and stakeholders have the answers
4. Be opportunistic and leverage change to reinforce culture
5. It’s not over when you think it is

Resources

• Book: Organization Design: The Practitioner’s Guide by Naomi Stanford
• Magazine: Journal of Organization Change Management
• Ted Talk: What Leaders Need to Know About Change – Taylor Harrell
• Magazine: Harvard Business Review
• Book: Leading Change – John Kotter