MANAGING CHANGE

Overcoming the Odds and Embracing Change In A High-Tech World of Rapid And Never-Ending Change

By Frank Candy

Background: One of the biggest challenges in business today is how to create a management system that includes a realistic and quality plan for the new vision, a way to execute the plan so everyone buys into it, and build it so the "new changes stick."

Managing this complexity requires a complete understanding of the values of the organization, the people, the new marketplace boundaries, challenges and absurdities that develop in organizations, companies and groups. The requirement for too many meetings, approvals, duplication, wasted supplies, time, energy, and money, drain the organization of productivity and profitability. The competitive landscape demands a culture of fast action, on-going improvement, and being better than the competition, to generate results, get things done and improve the quality of the operation and service to a higher level.

Purpose: To explain trends that leaders and managers must understand in order to do more than survive , but to thrive and be ahead of the competition.

Designed For: Today's leaders and managers and anyone employed in a company or organization that wants and needs to survive and thrive the post-recession, global economy.

Topics Covered: Eight Steps for Changing An Organization.

* 1. Increasing the urgency - Evolve or Die - Make the choice to change, grow and thrive.

* 2. Building a guiding team to lead the change revolution.

* 3. Get the vision right for change strategy - Accuracy first, then momentum.

* 4. Communication methods and styles for buy in - make sure you are using what you have.

It is the deepest all truths: It's not what you have it's what you do with what you have that makes the difference. Frank Candy

* 5. Empower the need for change and act on the vision.

* 6. Creating short-term wins. - Momentum builds as people try to fulfill the vision and resist change

* 7. Don't let up.

Never, never, never give up. Sir Winston Churchill

* 8 Make change stick - reinforce the vision and the action plan

Additional training modules and topics that can be added to the presentation:

* Understanding change
* Performing on-going values reviews
* Planning for new changes
* Implementing the new pans
* Managing the ongoing changing world
* Communicating change across the generations and cultures
* Capturing good ideas and using a proven process to execute them
* Creating a positive workplace atmosphere
* Making quality and on-going improvement everyone's mission
* Create, innovate, execute, analyze, measure, improve = change

Results: This program challenges leaders and managers to see change as the on-going opportunity and to generate a work environment conducive to innovation. It creates a mindset beyond quality inspection to one of making measurement and standards meaningful, one of shaping the future.

This program can be customized for your group and last from sixty minutes in a keynote format and up to three hours in an interactive format.

These programs define the new economy. It's about fresh ideas, creative strategies for success and how to compete in the future.

As a business speaker, Frank Candy utilizes customized programs to unlock the secrets of great innovation, mastering change and creativity, marketing, increased sales and world-class customer service. Frank explains what to do and how to do it. With over 20 years of experience in getting real results where they count… on the bottom line. This successful CEO keeps audiences on the edge of their seats as they learn the principles and secrets of innovation, creativity, success, happiness and achievement.

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