Managing Change: A Framework for Solving Problems and Designing Solutions
What You’ll Learn
Regardless of industry or country, managers at all levels spend the majority of their time solving problems, chasing opportunities, or managing change. Yet, there is often no management model within organizations for appropriately addressing problems or for creating a competitive advantage. And there is certainly not one unified tool to address both.
It allows organizations to have a common understanding of the vital steps that should be taken to overcome a problem efficiently or to leverage an opportunity.
Program focuses on the critical transitional time between the definition of strategic goals and the move to achieve those goals. It enables leaders to manage change, inspire followers, and facilitate optimal productivity.
Program Benefits
The framework you’ll learn in this powerful program will give you the strategy and the tools you need to:
- Follow through on new goals using a proven process that facilitates implementation
- Leverage the key metric of speed-to-completion by using a scalable framework
- Consider and clarify familiar functional roles for each step of the framework
- Master a management tool designed to empower problem-solving, triage strategic imperatives, and implement multiple dimensions of strategy
You will:
- Learn by doing. You’ll gain hands-on experience in small groups as you work your way through completing the framework
- Earn a Certificate of Participation from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education
Topics Covered
- Introduce the Problem solving
- Analyze and learn how to implement the eight vital steps in problem solving and decision making
- Understand the value of creating “soak-time” between problem identification and resolution as well as between strategy creation and execution
- The science of implementation-intention as a strategy and tool to resolve problems and achieve goals
- Review the tools, templates, techniques, and questions targeted to each of the eight steps within the framework
Who Should Enroll
This program is designed for leaders with a minimum of two years of management experience. Participants looking to acquire theory and practice through a user-friendly problem solving and decision-making framework will benefit greatly from this program.