Facilitating Change In Groups And Teams

Based on extensive practitioner research, this book focuses on facilitating change for all who work in teams and within organizations. These pages present a model of facilitation that addresses how to increase awareness of physical and sensory, social and cultural, emotional and biographical, projective and imagined, and transpersonal and intuitive influences. Some of the topics include generating individual and group understanding, liberating and refining new experiential knowledge, raising personal and social awareness, and educating and empowering all involved. Professionals, especially organizational consultants and coaches, will learn how to facilitate team-building and community change in organizations.

You don't have to be a change manager to be managing change. Written for managers, HR and OD professionals, this practical guide tells you everything you need to know to support effective business transformation. Managing Change in Organizations provides practical tips and examples on how to manage the people side of change as well as advice on how to engage staff and support them during times of business flux and uncertainty. There is also expert advice on how to ensure that all change activity in the company is aligned with the overall business goals whether this affects people, practices or processes. There is also expert guidance for HR, OD and management professionals on how to manage staff expectations, communicate change effectively and prioritize wellbeing during times of change. It includes practical tools which explain how to develop everyday activities to support the workforce through noticing, checking-in and navigating. Informed by the author's experience with both public and private sector organizations. this book is crucial reading for all HR and OD professionals as well as line managers needing to manage change in their organizations.

In this book, managers learn a three-step method to help their employees deal with change in the workplace. They will learn how to face change head-on and be honest with their employees about the current situation and offer desirable outcomes.

Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide is unique in that it integrates two traditionally disparate world views on managing change: organizational development/human resources and portfolio/program/project management. By bringing these together, professionals from both worlds can use project management approaches to effectively create and manage change. This practice guide begins by providing the reader with a framework for creating organizational agility and judging change readiness.

The management of change in the context of new policy directives and agendas is a critical issue for healthcare practitioners. All professionals – not just managers - need to develop and implement new services designed to bring patients into the centre of healthcare delivery. This book looks at the leadership, interpersonal, and management skills needed to manage such change effectively within multi-professional healthcare settings.

This book will undoubtedly prove valuable to experienced leaders who want to hone their leadership skills in an era of constant change, as well as to those who have recently embarked on their career journey. It will also be of interest to middle managers, heads of business units, and HR managers seeking to nourish their management skills or transition into the role of business partners.

Managing Change in Organizations, second edition, explores a broad range of perspectives on change management, encouraging critical reflection and making sense of a complex field of theories. Its unique approach, based around three key perspectives of change, will help you to understand: · How change is accomplished – the tool perspective · What change means for those involved – the process perspective · Why change is initiated (and whether it is necessary) – the critical perspective Updated throughout to include new examples, case studies and exercises, this essential text offers you the chance to learn pragmatic tools for managing change, as well as gain an in-depth understanding of different theories and their values. Stefan Sveningsson is Professor of Business Administration at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Nadja Sörgärde is Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University.