Why It Works

Jump Start: Discovery

Our 3-hour session provides an overview of the Solleva change methodology and provides change leaders and teams with a quick understanding of leading and managing change.

Discovery is designed for practitioners of change management, project managers, work stream leaders, executive sponsors of change initiatives, and other stakeholders leading or facing change.

Jump Start: Readiness

A 3-day workshop that prepares project teams to manage change and delivers:

A shared understanding of the business goals and vision for the initiative
An assessment of the organization cultural and political context
An appreciation of the key players, roles, responsibilities and competencies required
Methods and protocols for stakeholder engagement, communication, joint decision-making, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and innovation
The requirements to optimize the organization and business operations: process, roles, structure, competencies
A firm grasp of the key terms and conditions of vendor contracts, and the resulting obligations of all parties
A Solleva Change Readiness Roadmap outlining the key change requirements for the initiative
Improved capability that can be applied to future projects

Jump Start: Launch

Solleva helps sustain the momentum established in the Jump Start: Readiness workshop by guiding change work stream leaders and teams through detailed project planning.

The planning process will use technical project plans, the Solleva Change Readiness Roadmap and Solleva templates as the foundation to identify and construct the activities, timelines, deliverables, interdependencies and accountabilities that will be integrated into technical project plans.

Influencing Across All Levels

Whether you need to get buy-in from senior executives for a new initiative, convince your colleagues to support your proposal or motivate direct reports to give their all to meet an urgent deadline, the ability to influence people across all levels is essential to change management success. In this workshop you will learn how to:

Establish or regain credibility with stakeholders
Use your power base and social networks to increase your impact
Let communication differences work for, not against, you
Develop win-win solutions that form the basis for more effective change outcomes

Listening to the Organization

Most change leaders understand the importance of listening to stakeholders. Far fewer have a clear idea what it really involves or how to go about doing it. Effective organizational listening can be the difference between project success and failure. In this workshop, you will:

Identify the value of effective listening and how to build it into project and change management process
Understand the specific skills of listening and how to strengthen your listening capability
Learn how to ask the right questions and interpret the answers you are given
Develop structured project feedback processes that help project teams that achieve project goals and meet stakeholder expectations

Communicating Across Cultures

Major organization change increasingly takes place in a global context. As a result, the ability to work effectively across cultures has become a critical skill to ensure project success. This program will give you the skills to better understand other cultures and discover how to increase communication effectiveness. In this workshop, you will:

Learn how culture influences people and the way they perceive the world
Understand your own cultural style and what that means when interacting with others
Identify how to map to communication styles and preferences to create mutual understanding
Determine strategies for bridging differences to build high-performance relationships

Engaging and Influencing Stakeholders

Change management research has shown the most effective tool for influencing change outcomes is to actively engage our stakeholders. Despite this wisdom, however, most project leaders rely to a more on written communication than the sometimes messy process of human interaction. In this workshop, you will learn to change this dynamic and:

Identify the stakeholders essential to your success
Uncover their true needs and the sources of their resistance to your goals and process
Leverage the power of social networks to influence perceptions
Develop action plans that create buy-in, support and commitment

Supervisory Skills: Coaching for Improved Performance