Leading Successful Change

Learn to lead change effectively

In today’s dynamic environment, leading successful change is no longer a managerial luxury but a critical necessity. It can be said that if someone cannot lead change successfully, they cannot lead. Yet the frightening truth is that up to 70% of change initiatives fail.

Leading Successful Change is a three-day programme designed to help you execute change more effectively in your organisation. You will learn about frameworks and tools that you can apply to lead change effectively; analyse different types of change - crisis, reactionary, anticipatory – and their different dynamics; and examine peoples’ attitudes towards change – from early adopters to hard-core resistors. This programme is also designed to help you analyse different sources of resistance and look at how to create change strategies that factor in the different, non-linear dynamics of a change process over time. Specifically, the programme helps you to enhance your skills in the area of understanding peoples’ motivations, creating and sustaining a positive momentum for change and building broad networks of support.

Key Benefits

• Enhance your understanding of the change process
• Learn about the skills required to initiate and execute change
• Create a detailed action plan to develop your repertoire of change skills

Leading Successful Change is designed to enhance participants’ core capabilities for leading and sustaining change. During the programme participants are able to practise new tools for implementing change in a Change Pro Simulation. Designed at INSEAD as a risk-free learning environment, the Change Pro Simulation challenges participants to work through a 120 day change initiative in just a few hours. 

Along with simulation, participants take part in class room learning, work groups and discussion around the key areas of:

• Helping others see the need for change
• Inspiring and influencing people to change
• Anticipating resistance and obstacles to ensure time-sensitive responses
• Managing the non-linear dynamics of change over time
• Creating and sustaining the momentum for ultimate success

Participants typically have at least eight years management experience and hold mid to upper middle managements positions within public or private sector organisations. They are responsible for teams, units or larger segments of their businesses. The programme is especially relevant for those responsible for or likely to lead strategic change initiatives within their organisations

Applications are encouraged from several managers within the same organisation (up to four executives) who are current or potential members of a change implementation team.

“This programme helped me to understand, articulate and plan for implementation of my change initiatives. A highly useful and relevant programme.”

Country Director
Asian Development Bank
China

“The programme offers many examples and learning keys which are relevant for change initiatives. The experience from other participants helped me a lot to improve my own change initiatives.”

Head of Global Offshoring
Bayer Business Services
India

“Solid programme, well lead & facilitated with good engagement from a truly international experienced group.”

Head of Strategy & Business Development
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Australia

“Very interactive programme which makes you look at your daily work from a different perspective.”

Programme Director - Strategy
DHL Global Forwarding
Singapore

Great minds don’t think alike

INSEAD’s professors represent many cultures, disciplines, and perspectives. Led by acknowledged world experts in their own particular fields, programme faculty remain intimately close to business and most are engaged in cross-disciplinary research.*

	Vibha Gaba Programme Director Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour Vibha Gaba's research investigates questions that relate to organisations' ability to adapt, learn, and innovate: How do organisations respond to discontinuous changes in their environment? Why do organisations adopt and abandon organisational innovations? How do organisations allocate scarce resources to alternative R&D/innovation related activities? How do firms decide on the timing of entry into new markets? Read more...
	Martin Gargiulo Professor of Organisational Behaviour		Allen J.Morrison Professor of Management Practice

*programme faculty may change

Dates & Fees

Participants are advised to arrive the evening before as the programme starts early in the morning.

Please click here for more information about the terms and conditions.

For full details on how to apply, accommodation, and cancellation conditions please visit the Practical Information page.

*Fee subject to change. For programmes delivered in France, VAT (19.6%) to be added for companies based in France, or for European companies where no VAT number is supplied. For programmes delivered in Singapore, GST (7%) to be added for Singapore-registered companies.