Integrating Innovation and Change in Your Company’s Strategy – A Deep-Dive Through Action Learning.
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This hands-on seminar focuses on developing participants’ innovation and change management skills and mindsets, particularly at the executive levels of management. By attending this seminar, participants will be equipped to implement innovative practices deeply ingrained within their organization’s ethos. These practices are essential for ensuring sustainability, profitability, growth, and overall business performance excellence. The seminar will empower participants to undergo a complete transformation in their business mindset and organizational culture, fostering a proactive embrace of continuous innovation and change.
Join us to lead your organization through a transformative journey towards innovation-driven success and sustainable growth.
- • Skill Development: Enhance innovation and change management capabilities at the executive level.
- • Strategic Implementation: Deploy innovative practices to embed them into the organization’s DNA.
- • Ensuring Sustainability: Foster practices that ensure long-term sustainability and profitability.
- • Cultural Transformation: Drive a cultural shift towards embracing continuous innovation and change.
- • Action Learning Approach: Engage in practical, experiential learning activities to apply concepts in real-world scenarios.
The seminar addresses the needs of SMEs and/or large enterprises Managers, who have decision-making authority to reengineer their company’s processes, products and solutions eithers a result of the ever-changing environment or as a result of the emergence of an unexpected crisis like an economic crisis, the emergence of a pandemic etc.
Specifically, seminar participants can be from IT companies that develop IT products (hardware or software), Educational service providers Health care, Chemical Engineering, and Service production companies that develop innovations (building methods or products) etc. Participants involved in innovative business initiatives like new lines of products or services and the expansion of the company in new markets can benefit greatly from this seminar.
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Hourly Schedule
Day 1
- 07:45 - 09:15
- Introductions and outline of the learning objectives
- - Facts and Figures about Change: Reasons of Failure
- Attitudes to change
- The Process of Change
- The Change Manager’s Toolkit Key Lessons
- 09:15 - 09:30
- Coffee Break
- 09:30 - 12:00
- Change Management Simulation (business game): team exercise.
- A state-of-the-art computer simulation (a.k.a. business game), already used in top business schools and corporate leadership development programs around the world.
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Lunch Break
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Presentation & Discussion of Team Results
- - Lessons Learned (Do’s & Don’ts)
- Team Dynamics: • decision making under pressure; • sensitivity to disagreement, criticism, disengagement; • leadership & followership styles
- 14:00 - 15:30
- Reflection on Organisational Change Dynamics (Action Learning)
- Immunity to Change (Action Learning)
- Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
- Good reasons to resist
- Immunity to Change: the hidden commitment to keep things as they are
- Understanding the migration process
- 15:30 - 15:45
- Coffee Break
- 15:45 - 16:15
- Insights and skills in the practice of innovation & change management
- (Action Learning)
- The limiting force of own attitudes
- Discover of new mindsets Key Lessons: - The intensive interactive experiences
- The development of the necessary capacities
Day 2
- 07:45 - 09:15
- Recapitulation of first day; Organisational Change Dynamics
- - Formal vs Informal Structures, and how to leverage these Fair Process: Distributive vs Procedural Fairness (Action Learning)
- Understanding the Psychological Rollercoaster
- 09:15 - 09:30
- Coffee Break
- 09:30 - 12:00
- 7 Building Blocks to effectively Managing Change
- - Change Agents must use and apply the 7 building blocks as foundation for effective change: Vision, Communication, Competence-building, Empowerment, Tools, Plan of Action, Appreciation
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Lunch Break
- 13:00 - 14:30
- Developing innovative products, services
- - Ensuring continuous business growth and success.
- Changes to the main features of existing products, services or methodologies
- Finding new uses for existing products, services or methodologies
- 14:30 - 14:45
- Coffee Break
- 14:45 - 16:15
- Change Management Simulation:
- - Putting all Lessons Learned to the test Lessons Learned & Application to own working environments (Action Learning) • hotels & hospitality • estate agencies & property development companies
'Oροι και Προϋποθέσεις
The above seminar is fully subsidized by HRDA on the condition that the following criteria is stringently adhered to:
1. Cameras and microphones must be open for the duration of the seminar.
2. Participation for the whole seminar must exceed 75%.
3. 1 device per person must be used.
4. You must ensure you check in punctually at the beginning of the seminar and check out at the end of each day.
5. You are obligated to participate in the follow up onsite 4 Hour visit and you must ensure you check in and check out promptly.
In the event the criteria is not fulfilled satisfactorily and you are rejected by HRDA, please note that you as an individual or your company will be liable to pay the participation fee of €1800.
Finally, please see our cancellation policy:
– Cancellations can be accepted up to 5 working days prior to the seminar without penalties. For any cancellations received after the deadline (or no-shows), the individual or company will be invoiced the full amount per participant.
– Substitutions can be accepted up to 2 working days prior to the seminar without penalties.