Leading Through Transitions Participant Workbook One-Day Workshop

By Kerry A. Bunker and Michael Wakefield

The Leading Through Transitions workshop and accompanying Participant Workbook provide you with the important information and tools needed to developthe key leadership skills that are so critical while facing unrelenting change.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership
• Release date: Sep 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781604918953

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Introductions

1.  Your name

2.  What you do in your role (try not to use titles and jargon)

3.  What are your hopes for the session? (If you leave this workshop saying it was a good experience, what will have happened to create that feeling?)

4.  Something else about you (something that gives us a window into who you are when you are not here, e.g., hobbies you used to have time for, family, avocations, pets, other passions and diversions)

Workshop Objectives

1.  Understanding the human impact of change and transition

2.  Building and supporting trust during times of change and uncertainty

3.  Learning to lead others through emotionally challenging situations

4.  Developing authentic leadership capacities to facilitate the process of change

Effective and Ineffective Leadership Activity

Consider either an effective or ineffective leader you’ve known and how he or she behaved during a time of change or transition. In the space below, respond to the following questions:

•  Why do you remember this person so positively/negatively?

•  How would you describe the person’s leadership behavior?

•  What did he or she do/say/project that led to your perception?

•  How was the person characterized by others at the time?

Introduction to Leading Through Transitions

•  The majority of significant change efforts fail.

•  Change initiatives often fail because insufficient time and energy were focused on understanding and offering leadership around the emotional and relational dynamics that underlie the learning, adaptation, and resiliency of the people.

The last four factors in the graphic above are the ones that rising leaders struggle with the most. They are also more