Change Management for
Technology Transformation
12 and 19 July 2023 | 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM AEST | Online
Training Overview
Optimise Adoption, Address Resistance and Drive Innovation
According to McKinsey & Company, a whopping 70% of digital transformations fail. And a recent BCG survey reveals 75% of transformation efforts don’t deliver the anticipated results.
Why? Technology project goals are often improperly defined and poorly communicated. This frightens and frustrates employees. Instead of adoption, you get resistance, misalignment across departments and competing interests without common goals. Change management (or lack of ) can make or break modernisation initiatives. However sometimes its not a key focus but is a part of the project that you are in a crucial position to influence and make decisions on.
This online training course has been developed for IT leaders who are leading transformation and modernisation initiatives in the public sector. It will focus on strategic planning and communication skills to influence and drive transformation forward. It will address the common challenges that IT specialists encounter and. In addition it will investigate some of the recurrent break points that cause projects to fail.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for Directors, Assistant Directors, Managers, Project Managers, Leads in charge of transforming all three levels of government including:
ICT, IT, Technology, Technology Operations
Change Management and Business Transformation
Innovation and Digital Transformation
Learning Outcomes
Understand the principles of change management
The role of change management in driving technology innovation
Communicating goals and engaging with stakeholders
Pre-empting and addressing resistance
Meet Your Facilitator
Caz McLean
Strategist, Facilitator, Business Partner
Caz McLean Consulting
Caz McLean is a highly experienced senior executive recognised for her expertise in leadership, strategy, culture, innovation, and service improvement. She has master’s degrees in business administration, strategic foresight, and social policy, 20 years’ experience in Local Government, and extensive experience as a management consultant.
As an expert strategist and facilitator, Caz works in partnership with clients to inspire creative thinking in solving complex problems. Caz facilitates collaborative processes to design and deliver innovative solutions for a sustainable future. Caz’s expertise covers various areas such as review processes, strategy design, training programs, and expert facilitation.
Caz prioritizes building internal capability by taking clients and their team on the journey and delivering efficient and effective outcomes aligned with business goals and objectives.
Key Sessions
Principles of Change Management
- The Dynamics of Change
- Context for change
- We’re human
- The seven dynamics of change are that people
- Models of change management
- The Role of Change Management in Innovation
- What is innovation? A shared definition
- Activity
- Reflection and learning
Goal Setting and Strategy
- Setting Goals and Crafting a Strategy
- Why is a compelling Vision important?
- Exploring examples and tools
- Group Discussion
- Crafting a Strategy: Adopting a structured approach to change
- Identify objectives, scope, and stakeholders
- How to assess risks and impacts of the change
- The resources and capabilities needed to implement the change successfully
- Suggested Activity:
Apply the learning from today’s session to start crafting a change management strategy
Navigating Resistance and Adoption
- Unlocking Resistance
- Involving staff and all stakeholders
- Communication
- Managing resistance
- Group discussion
- Enabling Adoption among Internal Stakeholders
- Opportunities to see, feel, touch, and try
- Fostering a learning envirnment
- Change experiments
- Tips and tricks
Next Steps
- Monitoring and Analysing Progress
- Monitoring achievement of strategy
- Adjustments and feedback
- Monitoring post change
- Planning for Continuous Improvement
- Moving away from Set and Forget
- Flexibility and responsiveness
- Culture of continuous improvement