Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Course

Who Will Benefit

Innovative Leaders and Intrapreneurs

Drive innovation within companies of all stages and sizes—whether an established market leader, a fast-growing midsize organization, or a dynamic emerging business.

High-Potential, Mid-Level Managers

Advance your career by learning to respond to external shifts, drive transformation, and lead change initiatives within your organization.

Experienced Team Leaders

Identify and analyze performance and opportunity gaps to overcome barriers to change and effectively inspire and lead your team.

Module 1 Challenge of Dynamic Capabilities (5-6 hrs)

Examine the cause of organizational inertia and understand the tension in all businesses between getting today’s work done and innovating for the future.

Concepts

1. Welcome to Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

1. Exploit and Explore

1. Organizational Renewal

1. Personal Case Project

Featured Exercises

• Categorize different innovation types and conceptualize innovation streams for your organization

• Diagnose why most organizations fail in response to external disruption

• Identify an opportunity or performance gap in your organization and write a gap statement.

Module 2 Strategy, Execution, and Purpose (4-5 hrs)

Explore how strategy is generated by an organization’s purpose and competitive context. Differentiate each component of a business’s architecture and diagnose misalignments in the system.

Concepts

1. Defining Organizational Strategy

1. Diagnosing Root Causes of a Gap with the Congruence Model

1. Personal Case Project

Featured Exercises

• Analyze the alignment or misalignment of a business’s hardware and software and reflect on its impact on organizational strategy

• Perform a thorough root cause analysis of your performance or opportunity gap and determine any misalignments preventing your organization from executing it

• Relate organizational renewal with your renewal.

Module 3 Culture and Competitive (Dis)Advantage (4-5 hrs)

Discover the meaning and underlying psychology of company culture and how a strong culture can be a competitive advantage—or a disadvantage. Identify the managerial tools you can use to change your organization’s culture.

Concepts

1. Culture at AGC

1. Aligning Culture with Strategy

1. Personal Case Project

Featured Exercises

• Evaluate a company’s culture through a culture exercise

• Reflect on the values, norms, and behaviors that constitute culture

• Diagnose your company’s culture by connecting the LEASH model to your organization.

Module 4 The Dark Side of Alignment (7-8 hrs)

Demonstrate how and why organizational alignment can lead to inertia and identify and describe the different types.

Concepts

1. Inertia

1. Overcoming Inertia

1. Personal Case Project

Featured Exercises

• Brainstorm how to explore and exploit ideas simultaneously to balance short-term success with longer-term innovation

• Create a social movement to combat organizational inertia

• Develop a solution to your performance or opportunity gap and identify actions to address the inertia you’ll encounter.

Module 5 Structural Ambidexterity (4-5 hrs)

Understand the key characteristics of an ambidextrous organization and corporate explorer. Differentiate between three innovation phases—ideate, incubate, and scale—and what constitutes the successful execution of each.

Concepts

1. Building an Explore Function

1. Amazon & Intel

1. Personal Case Project

Featured Exercises

• Analyze the role of corporate explorers in driving innovation

• Reflect on the importance of aligning senior teams around strategy, vision, and values to ensure dynamic innovation

• Provide feedback on peers’ personal case projects.

Module 6 Leading Change (6-7 hrs)

Explore the link between personal and organizational renewal. Assess the core issues in leading systemic change and develop the tools and frameworks to address resistance to change and maintain control during the change process.

Concepts

1. Organizational and Personal Renewal

1. Leading Punctuated Change

1. Personal Case Project

Featured Exercises

• Reflect on what makes you passionate and make adjustments for your renewal

• Examine the benefit of informal communication networks to shape your change efforts

• Revise your integrated action plan based on peer feedback.

• 6 weeks
• 5-7 hours per week
• 6 modules
• Self-paced with regular deadlines.