Leading Your Team Through Change

In addition to your class tuition and study materials, you will receive the following:


Other Extras

• Pre-course exercise
  
• Post-course support
  
• Certificate of attendance

Level: Intermediate


Synopsis:
Financial markets never stay still. Negative growth, virtual team working, outsourcing, desk moves - whatever the new situation it is your role to guide your team through continuous change.Adapting to change is something that some people find more difficult than others. As a manager, one of your roles is to help your team through challenging times, whilst maintaining productivity. Some will get excited and be the first to adapt to new situations and others will lag behind, taking much longer to accept what they've left behind.


At the end of the course participants will be able to: Follow a structure for managing change in their organisation . Determine how best to communicate change within their teams . Understand and manage people's resistance to change . Use tools and techniques for managing their team members' reactions to change . Understand the effects of change on individuals .


Prerequisites:
None


Suitable For:
Team leaders, seniors, managers


Why change?

• Follow a framework to ensure the need for change is understood - especially in financially changing times
• Identify the desired outcome resulting from the change
• Learn techniques to find the best solution to achieve the result you want

How change affects you and your team

• Understand the impact of the seven stages of change within organisations
• Identify how you naturally deal with change and what your preferences and concerns are when experiencing change
• Appreciate how change affects different areas of the financial markets, as the industry itself demands continuous change

Managing change

• Learn how to identify indicative behaviours for each of the seven stages
• Discover tools and techniques for managing your team through each stage

Communicating change

• Tools to bring people on board with the change
• Communicating your message whilst minimising disruption to your desk
• Enhance your influencing and persuasion skills
• Follow a structure to present your case for change

Making change happen

• Create an environment that recognises and rewards change
• Set performance standards
• Become a role model for best practice