Lead change as a continuing cycle: assess, prioritise, anticipate, act and review
A practical course for leaders navigating major organisational change, restructures, mergers, new leadership, or curriculum reform, drawing on Kolb, the Stockdale Paradox, Kotter and Bridges, plus insights from over fifty practising leaders.
What you will be able to do
- Lead change as a continuing cycle: assess, prioritise, anticipate, act and review
- Apply the Stockdale Paradox to hold realistic optimism through a difficult change
- Use the five ingredients, vision, skills, incentives, resources and an action plan, to diagnose why a change is not landing
- Apply Kotter's eight steps and Bridges' transition model to navigate a change through to a genuine new beginning
- Build shared ownership of vision, mission and values through genuine two-way conversation, not a top-down announcement
- Draw on being, doing and considering to look after yourself and your team through a sustained change
What is inside
8 modules, built to be applied at work.
Understanding change as a leader
- A cyclical way to lead through change6 min
- The Stockdale Paradox: realistic optimism6 min
- An honest self-audit: are you ready?6 min
- Prioritising what matters most: capabilities and behaviours8 min
Vision, direction and purpose
- Looking beyond, without forgetting the recent past8 min
- Leading a sustainable recovery5 min
- Building a great place to work8 min
Advice, guidance and tips for leaders
- Being, doing and considering7 min
- Twelve habits for leading through crisis7 min
Navigating the way forward: Kotter and Bridges
- The five-stage journey: from resolve to reform7 min
- Kotter's eight-step model for leading change8 min
- Bridges' transition model: endings, the neutral zone, new beginnings6 min
- Do's and don'ts in practice: a scenario8 min
Building shared ownership
- Vision, mission and values: the language leaders need6 min
- Running a whole-organisation event for shared ownership7 min
Voices from practice
- What practitioners learned: people and culture7 min
- What practitioners learned: purpose and belonging7 min
Fifty-five leaders on leading through change
- Lessons learned and priorities from the field7 min
- Challenges and advice from the field7 min
Your leadership reference and commitment
- A leader's quick-reference alphabet6 min
- Your final check and your commitment8 min
A credential you can prove
Finish the course and earn a 2.5 CPD hours certificate with its own public verification page. Share it on LinkedIn or attach it to an application; anyone can check it.
Taught by someone who does the work
Education leadership consultant, Promoting Excellence Ltd
- Promoting Excellence Ltd, education leadership consultants
- Specialist in inclusive and adaptive teaching
Peter Rushton is an education leadership consultant with Promoting Excellence Ltd. He works with schools and colleges to develop inclusive cultures and excellent mixed ability teaching, drawing on the latest Ofsted framework and Education Endowment Foundation research.
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