Change Mangagement Center
- Foster True Transformation Within Your Organization
The Change Management Center equips your managers with the strategic insights and tactical tools that they need to plan for and carry out lasting change. Drawing on the research of renowned change experts, the Center challenges leaders to consider different approaches to change and discover what will work best within their organizations.
Target Audiences
The Change Management Center provides advice, tools, and resources for leaders and managers at all levels who are charged with planning for, communicating about, and carrying out change initiatives. Building and refining your managers’ abilities to plan for and to drive real and lasting change will directly affect your organization’s success and future growth.
Benefits
- Manager’s Toolkit. Discussion Guide, teaching aids and “conversation starters” make it easy to cascade groundbreaking ideas and best practices on change management throughout an organization or a group.
- Change Wire. RSS links to the latest news and thinking on change management.
- Exclusive Videos. Expert insights present in an engaging format.
- Quick and Easy. Contemporary “Cover Flow” design let users immediately navigate to what they need.
- Employee Buy-In. Tools, tips and techniques to overcome resistance and win employee support for achieving change goals. adfbalkj
Experts
The Change Management Center draws on the work of the foremost thinkers in the field of change management: John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen, Michael Beer, and Benham Tabrizi.
Rich Resources for Successful Change Management
Blend the latest ideas on change management into your leadership development curriculum. The resources in the Center can support and reinforce both self-directed learning and group action learning.
The center is organized for fast, easy navigation through a wide breadth of learning assets:
- Content: Three content areas—Set the Stage, Communicate for Buy-In, and Empower Employees—cover the initial steps and then the common challenges pertaining to change management.
- Featured Experts: Each section has video clips by leading experts that highlight key conceptual material covered in the section.
- Media Collection: An extensive selection of articles, book chapters, case studies, videos, HMM 10 topics, tools, and Conversation Starters.
- The Managers’ Toolkit: Contains aids for managers and facilitators to “take it to the team” and cascade the Change Management Center’s learning to groups and individuals.
The Toolkit offers:
- Discussion Guide: helps managers and facilitators assign readings on critical change topics in preparation for group discussions.
- Blended Learning: provides classroom Facilitation and Participant Guides for each section.
- Tools Index: offers quick access to all the Tools in the collection, listed by section.
- Conversation Starters Index: offers quick access to all the Conversation Starters in the collection, listed by section, which can be e-mailed to stimulate dialogue around a specific topic..
The Center's Change Management Wire links to RSS feeds to the top sources for the latest news and thinking on the topic of change management. The site’s “coverflow’ design, site paths and index provide quick access to site assets.
One-Stop Source for Keeping Change on Course
The Change Management Center offers the best thinking from preeminent experts on how to effect real change. Your managers will find thought-provoking ideas and valuable tools to help them plan change initiatives, communicate effectively about change, and engage employees in the change effort.
The Change Management Center presents content in three sections:
- Set the Stage: Describes tactics for creating a climate for change and explores different strategic approaches to change.
- Communicate for Buy-In: Examines how to communicate for commitment, have an open conversation about obstacles to change, and leverage change agents to overcome resistance to change.
- Empower Employees: Explores how to actively involve employees in a change effort, increase their buy-in, break through any barriers to change, and enable implementation.
The Managers’ Toolkit makes it easy to cascade groundbreaking ideas and best practices on change management throughout an organization or group. An instructive Discussion Guide enables managers and facilitators to “take it to the team”—by assigning readings on critical change topics in preparation for group discussions.
The Change Management Center contains a rich variety of materials: articles, book chapters, case studies, expert video, e-learning, and Harvard ManageMentor topics. Each of the three sections ends with a series of tools, including assessments, checklists, worksheets, and forms.
Proven Practices from the Pros
The Change Management Center draws on the work of the foremost thinkers in the field of change management.
- John P. Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, Harvard Business School; author of A Sense of Urgency, Leading Change and co-author of The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change their Organizations (Harvard Business Press)
- Dan S. Cohen, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP; co-author of The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change their Organizations, and author of The Heart of Change Field Guide: Tools and Tactics for Leading Change in our Organization (Harvard Business Press)
- Michael Beer, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School, and co-founder and Chairman of TruePoint; co-editor of Breaking the Code of Change, and co-author of The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal (Harvard Business Press)
- Behnam Tabrizi, Consulting Professor at Stanford University; author of Rapid Transformation: A 90-day Plan for Fast and Effective Change (Harvard Business Press)
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