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Leading through Change: Practical Strategies to Effectively Achieve Organizational Change

Course Description:

You know the drill: the only constant is change. And organizations don't adapt to change; their people do.

While change may boost the bottom line, it can also create insecurity, lower productivity and lower staff morale. So, what’s the best way to manage the process?

Course Highlights:

During this high-impact manager focused audio conference, you will learn key tactics and best practice tips to:

• Lead and engage your workforce through the change initiative

• Encourage employees to manage their own development and help others through the change process, and
• Utilize simple and straightforward techniques for dealing with inevitable resistance.

By the end of this comprehensive session, you’ll also know:

• Methods to build self-esteem in employees deeply affected by change
• Key techniques to encourage employees to manage their own development and help others through the change process
• Real-life motivation/engagement strategies to use during changing times
• Why educating and communicating your organization's change initiatives will go a long way in fostering employee loyalty and productivity
• What to do when employees are resistant, silent or undermine change plans

faculty:

Randy Ottinger, Senior Member, Kotter International Team

Randy Ottinger is a senior member of the Kotter International Team with more than 25 years of business and leadership experience. He has significant expertise advising senior leaders and facilitating leadership teams. In addition, Randy has deep expertise in the technology and financial services sectors.

Randy spent more than 20 years as a high tech executive for companies including: IBM, McCaw Cellular (Claircom), and Captaris. He served as President and EVP of Captaris where he grew their overall business substantially through significant change. Randy was also one of the early executives at McCaw Cellular’s Claircom Division. During his tenure at McCaw, Claircom grew from a start-up to surpassing GTE as the leading supplier of phone service on commercial and private aircraft.

Before joining Kotter International, Randy founded his own firm, LMR Advisors, where he advised business leaders on how to grow their businesses with a holistic approach that involves best employee, financial, and corporate social responsibility practices. Randy has advised a wide range of business leaders and organizations ranging from fast growing technology outsourcing companies to global financial advisory firms. Randy has spoken, presented and lectured at universities and organizations across all sectors, and is a highly regarded public speaker.

Bill Taylor, Senior Vice President and Relationship Leader, Kotter International Team 

Bill Taylor serves as Senior Vice President and Relationship Leader for Kotter International.  He brings 20 years of expertise in consulting, selection/assessment, culture transformation, executive education, coaching, design, senior-level facilitation, evaluation and strategic business development.  His primary focus is to leverage all Kotter International products and services to accelerate enterprise transformation and build change leadership capacity to optimize client performance.

He has successfully led major client projects with Google, Experian, Intel, Wells Fargo Bank, Beckman Coulter, Arizona Power Services, PIMCO, Cricket Communications, Kaiser Permanente, Nokia, HP, Apria Healthcare, Fluor, Microsoft, Ricoh Electronics, UCSD Healthcare and many others.

Bill also brings twelve years of line leadership experience as a senior banking executive for two community business banks in San Diego where he specialized in corporate business lending, private banking, served on senior loan committee and three merger / integration teams.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund every penny if you're not completely satisfied. No questions asked! It's 100% risk-free!

pricing:

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Your CD recording includes the complete audio conference presentation, audience Q&A and presentation materials.

APPROVED FOR RECERTIFICATION CREDIT:

HRCI - Receive 1.25 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. "The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit."

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