A Guide to Executing Change for Executive Leaders: Participant Workbook

Executing Change in the Organization

The Consultant's Toolkit

In today's fast-paced environment, executive leaders, like you, must be able to react and move quickly in response to changing conditions and pressures.

A Guide to Executing Change for Executive Leaders offers you and the other members of your executive leadership team the information and tools needed to successfully lead and execute a change initiative within your entire organization. During the course of the Executing Change in the Organization workshop, you will establish the framework and structure for the change project and identify and address the key issues that will impact your organization.

A Guide to Executing Change for Executive Leaders is the hands-on resource for guiding you in your pivotal role to drive change successfully in your organization and keep one step ahead of the competition.

You and other members of the executive leadership team will learn how to most effectively

• Establish the structure and assign accountability for the overall change effort

• Identify the key outcomes, strategies, initiatives, and business objectives

• Link the change initiative to your organization's overall strategic intent, goals, and objectives

• Develop a compelling message that expresses the core meaning, purpose, and expectation of the change initiative

• Assess the overall organization's readiness for change

• Assess how complexity and risk affect change

• Establish opportunities that enable change to take place