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 group dynamics
Organizational Change Challenge™
 1,5 - 3 hours
The Challenge Series

TEAM DEVELOPMENT

The Situation & The Challenge
Concerns about the stagnating growth of a
home health care supplies and equipment
manufacturer require that you and the other
top managers outline a change process
for revitalizing the company. Sequence
17 activities in the order they should be
implemented to most effectively accomplish
organizational change.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
a. Team Development & Decision Making
• Develop participants’ rational,
interpersonal, leadership and
communication skills.
• Initiate team building so participants
can uncover (and resolve) problems that
are occurring within their groups
• Promote team development by teaching
participants about synergy and the
behaviors and skills that contribute
to (and detract from) effective group
problem solving and decision making
• Kick off a meeting, session, workshop or
conference dealing with group problem
Unlock the solving, decision making, achievement-
oriented thinking or team development
• Teach participants about the elements
of an effective organizational change
process and how these elements are
interrelated
Benefits of using the Organizational
Challenge Challenge rather than
„traditional” learning about change
management:
• Bridges the gap between theory and
practice
• Accelerates learning by involving
participants’ critical thinking, problem
solving and decision making skills
• Increases participant interaction,
engagement and peer learning
• Provides specific, accurate measures of
individual and group performance in
task
• ROI for experiental learning is much
higher than for „classic” learning
Over to you: sequence these 3 activities
from the Organizational Change
Challenge:
q Develop a general strategy for
attaining the vision for change
that identifies major initiatives,

secret of synergy • Assess the impact of team-building

interventions, used as a pre- or post-test
themes or priorities.

measure of team effectiveness q Conduct a thorough assessment

while developing of the organization’s resources and
design, including its strategies,
business skills b. Change Management structures and operating culture.

• Improve on the organization’s existing

approach to change by identifying q Assemble a diverse committee
whose members are powerful,
activities or steps that have not been
credible and willing to work
adressed (adequately
together to define and lead
• Initiate organizational change using organizational change.
the refined step-by-step approach,
comprised of 4 major phases:
initiating, planning, implementing and
institutionalizing change

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