Preparing for High Impact Organizational Change: Experiential Learning and Practice

Preparing for High Impact Change: Experiential Learning and Practice provides an overview of change processes for teaching, facilitating, and coping with change. Tested high-impact exercises in the book will prepare change leaders at all organizational levels to deal with the myriad of challenges inherent in the process of organizational change.

Effective organizational change involves a combination of understanding, learning and unlearning, and practiced behaviour as part of the underlying conceptualization, formulation, and implementation processes. The book presents a series of exercises that promote self-learning and developing readiness for change, from preparing people for change, understanding and managing resistance, and coping with change-related obstacles to seeking buy-in for the change. Emphasis throughout the book is placed on developing change-related competencies.

This book is a resource for understanding aspects of change, from theory to practice, for consultants, educators, students and practitioners such as corporate training and development personnel.

Edited by Gavin M. Schwarz, Professor, Management, University of New South Wales, Australia, Anthony F. Buono, Professor, Management and Sociology and Susan M. Adams, Professor, Management, Bentley University, US