Journey to Newland: A Roadmap for Transformational Change (Facilitator's Guide)

If You're Not Leading Change, It Will Lead You In today's fast-paced business environment, change has become "business as usual." Change is constant. Change is relentless. It's no surprise then that the success or failure of an organization often depends on its leaders' ability to respond to change. While most leaders realize the importance of facing change head-on, far too few are equipped to handle the journey that ensues. The Journey to Newland workshop provides a proven road map for navigating the change journey from start to finish. This comprehensive framework-with its easy-to-follow process, memorable methodologies, and practical tools-enables participants to explore and eventually master the skills that are most crucial to transformational change-leading change, building teams, valuing differences, and optimizing communication. The Journey to Newland takes a refreshingly creative approach that helps participants simplify complex issues and bring intangible concepts down to earth. Participants meet and become familiar with a cast of memorable characters, engage in a captivating story, and learn a common language to deal with emotionally sensitive issues. This Facilitator's Guide includes three design elements that make the Journey to Newland workshop tangible, simple, measurable, and memorable: the Storybook and Movie, the "Big Five" Core Capabilities, and the Eight Stages of the Process. Journey to Newland provides an ideal resource for a variety of organizational situations including: Major project implementations Strategic change initiatives Systems, software, and technology implementation Industry changes Shifts from management to leadership culture New business implementation or expansion Business unit mergers or separations Acquisitions and mergers Fast growth Diversity initiatives Development of values, vision, and strategies Creation of development of leadership teams Crises prevention and risk management This important resource includes detailed instructions and scripts for a 2-hour overview session'and a half-day or two-day workshop, guidelines for follow-up coaching sessions and development activities, sample participant materials, an enhanced PowerPoint? presentation on CD, and the 20-minute Journey to Newland animated film on DVD.Poole, Bill is the author of 'Journey to Newland: A Roadmap for Transformational Change (Facilitator's Guide)', published 2007 under ISBN 9780787988012 and ISBN 0787988014.