Overview

In today’s global business environment, change is a constant. For many leaders, the most challenging responsibilities revolve around leading and sustaining the daily activities of change initiatives! And when change occurs routinely, you need more than one approach for leading it.

The Organisational Transformation Simulation (OTS) offers a compelling computer-based business simulation that delivers valuable insights from research and best practice to enrich your leadership of change. You will explore the latest frameworks, models, and perspectives on change that you can apply immediately, examine the issues that stall promising change initiatives and identify the strategies that can make them more successful. OTS provides targeted, business specific approaches designed to enhance your effectiveness as a Change Leader.

Whether you are a new leader looking for skills to open doors to your developing career, or a seasoned leader looking for fresh perspectives and insights to strengthen your skills and knowledge, you will find OTS a powerful and compelling learning experience.

Benefits to Participants

OTS is ideally suited as an interactive simulation to:

• Incorporate into a workshop style of training involving individuals as well as large or small group discussions.
• Discuss the scenarios presented by the simulation, learning points, decisions & input by participants allowing the facilitator or coach to facilitate better learning outcomes.
• Take online, as an individual, at your own time & pace.
• Have specific discussions involving organisational context & industry best practices add to the experiential learning.

Target Audience

Anyone involved in leadership or management positions responsible for leading and supporting change initiatives. Team and business unit leaders who require an appreciation of what it takes to lead a team of diverse & geographically dispersed individuals through continuous change initaitves.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this simulation experience you will be able to:

• Understand the core dynamics of leading change.
• Integrate change as a business strategy.
• Be a thought leader for change in your business.
• Develop enhanced self-awareness in order to effectively self manage and lead others within the context of constant organisational change.
• Align personal and organisational values to lead with humility, accountability, integrity and respect.
• Value and engage diversity of ideas to maximise organisational effectiveness.
• Set personal, team and organisation change goals; align with business strategies as well as develop tools to assess results.
• Foster creative thinking and critical self reflection to enhance your team-based problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Create and manage collaborative relationships to engage, influence and motivate individuals, teams and external partners within and across organisational boundaries.
• Develop communications skills that establish clarity of intent and create shared meaning and understanding.

Learning points & feedback

Feedback provided, at the end of the simulation, takes into consideration the decisions made by participants. These form the basis for further peer learning as well as discussion with the facilitator or coach.

Engagement

Participants engage in real-life scenarios presented by video injects, conference calls, video conferencing, emails and telephone conversations. Each scenario requires decisions and actions leading to consequences and outcomes of actions in leading a change initiative.