Description of the session
Implementing change requires a lot of leadership. But in essence, what is it really about? And where do you best place the emphasis as a leader? Should you determine the desired change at the start, or should you let it arise spontaneously from dialogue and interaction? Should you opt for a top down approach, or rather bottom up? Change the people first, or transform their environment first? Is it best to push the change starting from a burning platform, or better to opt for the pulling power of an inspiring vision of the future? Is it best to focus on achieving quick wins, or will acquiring, wielding and sharing power ensure that you can keep the change on track? A lot of questions, with individual leaders giving different answers from their own experience and conviction.
In this session, we start from your implicit thinking about how leaders can successfully implement change. We then integrate these thinking within an overarching theoretical framework, after which we explore your own preferred positions and personal strengths and pitfalls in the broad change implementation field. We end the session with a reflection on how shared leadership can be the key to successful change implementation.
what can participants expect as key learning of this session?
Understanding of the broad change management field
- An overarching framework and a common language to guide further development as a change agent
- Understanding one's own comfort zone and pitfalls as a change agent, as well as those of the organization in which one works
- Setting up a complementary change agent team
short bio about the lecturer
Daan is Visiting Professor of organizational behavior at the VUB. Since 2014, he is Adjunct Professor at AMS and collaborates on The Future Leadership Initiative. He also teaches at Sioo, an inter-university center for organizational and change science in Utrecht. The vast majority of his work is thus aimed at postgraduate students and professionals who want to learn about leadership and change management skills.
In addition to his academic career, Daan has been active as an advisor to organizations on complex change issues since 2003. In 2015, together with Guido Maes, Carla Arp and Toon Torbeyns, he founded Ginkgo Consulting, a consulting firm that focuses primarily on helping organizations transform according to innovative work organization principles. Their goal is to create sustainable and enjoyable work environments using organizational and leadership development, change management and strategic HRM.
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