The change agent academy®

Change agents are individuals with the knowledge, skills and tools to help organizations create radical change.

Who should attend: Managers, facilitators, team-leaders, quality professionals, HR specialists, black belts, green belts and anybody charged with radical improvement.

You will learn that while it’s true you can have change agents and not have success; you cannot have success without change agents.

“An amazing experience – you’ll be equipped to improve anything
you see.”

What separates excellent organizations from the truly ordinary? What allows some or¬ganizations to rapidly change and continually reinvent themselves while others have trouble making the slightest progress? The best-selling business books and manage¬ment gurus offer a dizzying array of silver bullets and panaceas. While most are sound theories, they continue to overlook the fundamental ingredient necessary to make the improvement work: the presence of change agents.

Change agents achieve results through their keen ability to facilitate groups of people to develop, organize and sell new ideas. They challenge teams to get outside of the box and utilize innovative tools to harness that creativity to make improvements that matter to the bottom line. Change agents are the bridge between vision and action. They are a leader’s best friends.

The change agent academy® is an unforgettable, fast-paced, hands-on learning experience that gives participants the knowledge, skills and tools to create radical improvement. Designed by change agents, for change agents, it teaches everything you need to know to:

• Pick the right improvement projects to work on, by diagnosing the real issues affecting the organization
• Organize a project so it has the best chance to succeed by uncovering the projects’ success criteria, securing management support, and building the right team
• Select and facilitate the best change process to improve customer satisfaction, reengineer a process, or solve a problem
• Generate innovative, out-of-the-box ideas that dramatically impact the bottom-line
• Navigate the politics of change, ensuring that radical ideas become radical improvements
• Lead a large-scale change initiative that produces maximum results with minimum effort

The mind-bending exercises and over 30 practical tools are applied to participants’ real projects. Whether you are a total novice, an experienced facilitator, or a seasoned manager, you will find the secrets you need to become a successful agent of change in your organization.

The change agent academy is available in three formats:

1. Limited seating public sessions
2. Private in-house sessions
3. Private just-in-time tutorials that follow the pace of your improvement projects

Contact us at (573) 353-7150 to discuss which option is right for you.