Plan succession and continuity for the roles most exposed to adapting to personal change.
Developing the Capacity to Adapt to Personal Change
Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run adapting to personal change properly.
Course Overview
People decide what adapting to personal change really means by watching who gets promoted. A process for personal change that managers quietly work around has already failed. It suits anyone whose decisions touch the wider people management and development agenda, in large organisations and small ones alike. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of adapting to personal change is examined, not just described. They leave able to brief senior management on this part of people management and development in terms that support a decision. Where personal change is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. Plans for adapting to personal change often fail at the handover point between functions. Participants leave with a method for personal change, not a set of opinions about it. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for the wider people management and development agenda survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Structure records of personal change so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Handle exceptions to adapting to personal change consistently and document the reasoning.
Plan the handover of personal change so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Align adapting to personal change with the wider objectives of the workforce rather than optimising it in isolation.
Prepare managers for the emotional load personal change places on them.
Align adapting to personal change with the organisation's workforce plan rather than treating it in isolation.
Who Should Attend
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of adapting to personal change directly.
Employee relations specialists handling cases arising from personal change.
Talent and organisational development specialists working on adapting to personal change.
Internal auditors reviewing how personal change is designed and operated.
Reward and compensation staff whose frameworks interact with adapting to personal change.
Learning and development officers building capability in personal change.
Course Modules
Adapting to personal change: policy design and legal footing
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The conversation about adapting to personal change managers most often avoid
- Compare the cost of adapting to personal change with the cost of its absence.
- Record what was learned when personal change did not go as planned.
- Arrange the handover of adapting to personal change so capability survives staff changes.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for personal change.
Session 2Building the method for personal change step by step
- Ask employees what adapting to personal change feels like from their side.
- Pilot changes to personal change in one area before wider rollout.
- Train line managers on adapting to personal change rather than handling every case centrally.
- Plan succession for roles most exposed to personal change.
Personal change: cost, benefit and workforce planning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Explaining personal change so people believe it
- Set escalation thresholds for adapting to personal change that work out of hours.
- Design the communication for personal change around the questions people will actually ask.
- Test the procedure for adapting to personal change against a realistic scenario.
- Draft the minimum viable people policy for personal change.
Session 2Writing a policy on personal change a line manager can actually use
- Check that adapting to personal change still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Build the appeals route for personal change and publish it.
- Check that records of adapting to personal change answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Script the difficult conversation personal change requires and rehearse it.
Personal change: evidence, data and honest measurement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Applying personal change consistently to the person you like least
- Identify the data already collected that bears on adapting to personal change.
- State the purpose of personal change in one sentence a new manager would understand.
- Set out how exceptions to adapting to personal change are requested and approved.
- Measure the effect of personal change on retention and performance, not activity.
Session 2The exception to adapting to personal change that sets the precedent
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of adapting to personal change current.
- Identify the data the organisation already holds that bears on personal change.
- Set the annual review point for adapting to personal change and who attends.
- Test the policy on personal change against three real cases from the past year.
Personal change: exceptions, appeals and difficult cases
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Closing out personal change and capturing what was learned
- Document the reasoning for every exception granted under adapting to personal change.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about personal change.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when adapting to personal change underperforms.
- Build the competence framework that supports personal change.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in personal change
- Anticipate the objections adapting to personal change will raise and prepare the answers.
- Estimate the cost of personal change and the cost of leaving it unchanged.
- Review adapting to personal change for unintended equity effects across groups.
- Define who decides on personal change and who may only recommend.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- 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
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 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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