Judge when to escalate change coalitions and when to absorb it.
Building Supportive Change Coalitions Inside Large Organisations
A senior-level treatment of change coalitions, focused on what changes outcomes.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Most failures in change coalitions trace back to a conversation someone avoided having. Managers are promoted for competence and then judged on this part of organisational leadership, which nobody trained them for. Participants test their assumptions about this strand of organisational leadership against scenarios designed to break weak ones. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about change coalitions under scrutiny. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting the organisational leadership capability and under-invest in testing it. The level assumes working familiarity with the management team but no prior formal training in the wider organisational leadership agenda. Mature organisations treat change coalitions as a standing capability rather than a project that finishes. The programme takes participants through this area of organisational leadership end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. The final session converts the week's work on the wider organisational leadership agenda into commitments with owners and dates.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build coalitions across functions to make change coalitions stick.
Translate change coalitions into objectives each person can see themselves in.
Anticipate the objections that change coalitions will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Select indicators that show whether change coalitions is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
Align change coalitions with the wider objectives of the management team rather than optimising it in isolation.
Read the informal dynamics that determine whether change coalitions actually moves.
Who Should Attend
Board members and non-executives overseeing change coalitions.
Department heads accountable for the results of change coalitions.
Project and programme managers whose success depends on change coalitions.
Public sector managers applying change coalitions within institutional constraints.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to change coalitions that has grown up informally.
Team leaders responsible for daily delivery of change coalitions.
Course Modules
Change coalitions: setting direction people can act on
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What your team concludes from how you handle change coalitions
- Review a past decision on change coalitions and state honestly what you would change.
- Decide the point at which you would escalate change coalitions.
- Name the person accountable for each part of change coalitions, not the committee.
- Agree the standard on change coalitions and confirm it applies to everyone.
Session 2Deciding on change coalitions when the information will never be complete
- Agree the smallest change to change coalitions that would be visibly useful.
- Recognise publicly one person whose work on change coalitions went unnoticed.
- Benchmark the organisation's change coalitions against comparable operations.
- Confirm that the people affected by change coalitions heard it from you first.
Change coalitions: conflict, politics and informal power
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping change coalitions alive after the initial push
- Review whether change coalitions is aligned with the objectives of the management team.
- Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for change coalitions.
- Set the decision rights on change coalitions: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
- Set the review point at which change coalitions will be reconsidered.
Session 2Reviewing change coalitions when nothing has gone wrong
- Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines change coalitions.
- Identify single points of dependency in change coalitions and reduce them.
- Anticipate the objections change coalitions will raise and prepare the answers.
- Set escalation thresholds for change coalitions that work out of hours.
Change coalitions: the conversations that decide the outcome
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing change coalitions with recognised practice
- Build the competence framework that supports change coalitions.
- Establish the boundary of change coalitions and record what sits outside it.
- Test whether the team can explain change coalitions in their own words.
- Define acceptance criteria for change coalitions in advance.
Session 2Reading the room before proposing change coalitions
- Estimate the resource change coalitions requires to run as designed.
- Write down the reasoning behind your position on change coalitions.
- Agree what will be standardised in change coalitions and what will not.
- Rehearse the briefing on change coalitions that would follow an incident.
Change coalitions: deciding under pressure and incomplete information
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Applying the standard on change coalitions to your best performer
- Decide what you will delegate on change coalitions and what you will not, and say why.
- Identify the conversation about change coalitions you have been postponing, and schedule it.
- Remove steps in change coalitions that add effort without adding assurance.
- Identify which function can quietly block change coalitions and address it directly.
Session 2Saying the thing about change coalitions that nobody wants to say
- Prepare how you will respond when change coalitions is challenged publicly.
- Close out actions on change coalitions rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether change coalitions is improving.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of change coalitions current.
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- Airport Transfers
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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