Management and Leadership

Developing Change Agility

• Traditional Classroom: 1/2-day
• Virtual Instructor-led: One 3-hour session or Two 90-minute sessions

In this type of fast-paced, dynamic work environment, change is not just inevitable, it’s constant. Adaptability and agility have become essential skills for professionals looking to thrive amidst uncertainty and rapid transformations. In this highly interactive session we will explore the key skills and abilities that individuals need to build in order to cultivate change agility, whether it’s technological advancements, market shifts, organizational restructuring, or other disruptions.

Target Audience

This course is designed for anyone interested in improving their ability to anticipate and embrace change.

Learning Objectives

• Relate personal change experiences to the concept of change agility.
• Self-assess proficiency with key skills involved in change agility.
• Describe the relationship between resilience, growth mindset, and change agility.
• Identify personal fixed mindset triggers and ways to dismantle them.
• Utilize a proven framework for create a plan for successfully navigating an identified change.

Course Outline

Getting Started

• Session Goal and Learning Objectives
• Priming for Change
• Class Activity: Embracing Change Spectrogram
• What Makes Change Difficult?
• Individual Activity: Identify a Change You’d Like to Make

Change Agility Skills

• Change Agility by the Numbers
• Key Skills Involved in Change Agility
  • Resilience
  • Growth Mindset
  • Adaptability
  • Openness to Learning
• Individual Activity: Change Agility Self-Assessment
• Small Group Activity: Debrief of Self-Assessment

Overcoming Barriers to Change Agility

• Adopting a Change Mindset
• What Growth Mindset Really Means
• Fixed Mindset Triggers and Limiting Beliefs
• Individual Activity: Identifying and Dismantling Personal Thinking Traps

Building Your Personal Change Agility

• The ADKAR Model of Change
• Unpacking the Five Steps
• Individual Activity: Apply ADKAR to Your Identified Change
• Small Group Activity: Debrief of Activity

Summary and Action Planning

MDV4012-3 Course Code