Course Details
Creative Tools For Managing Change
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Professional Development
Leadership
Victoria University Professional and Executive Development
Level 2, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington City
More Than 1 Week
9:00am - 12.30pm
9:00am - 12.30pm
$1,483.50
Early Bird Payment Fee until 05/08/11 $1335.15
Early Bird Payment Fee until 05/08/11 $1335.15
Overview:
Are you looking at how to make possible changes in your organisation effectively, or having to squeeze more out of a tight budget, balancing conflicting needs and priorities?
This course offers a creative yet structured approach to exploring options and finding solutions to a wide range of problems and dilemmas. Goldratt's Theory of Constraints offers you a framework for thinking and introducing a process of ongoing improvement in your endeavours.
Expect to challenge your assumptions as you learn new ways of planning for change and take into account what actually happens when working with people.
Who Should Attend:
This course is for middle or senior managers in public or private sectors, or anyone who would like to learn a different way of solving problems and dilemmas and managing change in their professional worlds, day-to day lives, or within voluntary roles.
No previous knowledge is required. Come with your own experiences and be prepared to think and learn, and practise between sessions.
Course Objectives:
* Appreciate the value of thinking holistically. Understand the crucial role of constraints and how they can be exploited to unleash potential capacity.
* Identify conflicts and dilemmas and develop breakthrough solutions.
* Identify and map unintended consequences of actions/choices and devise ways to avoid negative side effects.
* Understand key behaviours that stop projects from being completed on time, within budget, and with full scope, and learn how to avoid these.
* Learn how to turn resistance to change into a positive force for change.
Course Outline:
1. An introduction to Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, and a focus on how to recognise and deal with Bottlenecks and Constraints.
2. What do you need to change, and how to break conflicts and dilemmas using the Evaporating Cloud technique.
3. Anticipating and avoiding negative consequences of change with the Negative Branch tool.
4. Planning to meet ambitious targets using the Pre-requisite Tree.
5. The Critical Chain for managing your project.
6. Putting all this together and harnessing resistance to change.
Course Format:
The course is offered in a series of four half-day workshops held on consecutive weeks.
In each session you will be introduced to new concepts and tools with opportunities for practical decision-making in groups using real examples, providing ideas to take away and apply.
Schedule:
Friday, 2 September 2011 9:00am - 12:30pm Workshop
Friday, 9 September 2011 9:00am - 12:30pm Workshop
Friday, 16 September 2011 9:00am - 12:30pm Workshop
Friday, 23 September 2011 9:00am - 12:30pm Workshop
Vicky Mabin, BSc(Hons), PhD is Associate Professor in Management in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration at Victoria University, and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) for the Faculty.
She teaches problem-solving and decision-making methods that can be applied across a range of contexts, including the public and private sectors and not-for-profit organisations. The methods can be applied to focus performance, including dealing with constraints, priority setting and project selection. Through her consulting, research and teaching, Vicky has assisted many organisations make strategic, priority setting decisions.
She teaches problem-solving and decision-making methods that can be applied across a range of contexts, including the public and private sectors and not-for-profit organisations. The methods can be applied to focus performance, including dealing with constraints, priority setting and project selection. Through her consulting, research and teaching, Vicky has assisted many organisations make strategic, priority setting decisions.