Navigating Transitions During Disruptive Change
Navigating Transitions During Disruptive Change
Tracks
Management and Leadership
Certificate Credits
2.0 EEUs
Topics
- Digital Business & IT
- Organizations & Leadership
- Strategy & Innovation
Course Highlights
- This unique program will help you better manage uncertainty and lead others through disruptive change
- You will explore and apply key concepts and tools to guide yourself and others successfully through the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional arcs of individual and team transitions—the Transition-Curve Framework
- Includes customized graphic illustrations to serve as a dynamic tool for reflection and application
- You will earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management
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Why attend Navigating Transitions During Disruptive Change?
Transitions are inevitable, in work and in life. Navigating a change curve well is every leader’s responsibility. Building on the Transition-Curve Framework (research and practice on adjustment, learning, emotional response curves, and more), this unique program will help you better manage uncertainty and successfully lead others through the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional arcs that accompany disruptive change.
Change has been, and always will, be constant. The role of a leader is to identify the uncertainty that surrounds change and create the context for talking about and managing it. Disruptive change—events that challenge our lives, organizations, industries, and societies in fundamental ways—raises the stakes on all the above. How we navigate the transitions that result from disruption has a direct impact on outcomes.
Course experience
Led by Hal Gregersen, this innovative new change management training takes a deep dive into the social and psychological journey that accompanies transition. You will explore and apply key concepts and tools to guide yourself and others successfully through the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional arcs of individual and team transitions—the Transition-Curve Framework. By understanding how people move through these arcs at their own pace, you will be better equipped to build organizational support for yourself and high-performing teams before, during, and after transitions. And you will be able to avoid common leadership mistakes that over-emphasize performance and de-emphasize the human side of transitions.
This course will include customized graphic illustrations to serve as a dynamic tool for reflection and application. Pre-reading materials will also be provided.
Learn more about the live online experience.
Learn more about the in-person course experience.
We do not recommend this course if you have already completed Managing the Human Side of Digital Disruption, unless you are seeking a refresher of the content.
Guest Speaker
Marsha Dunn
Marsha Dunn has spent over 20-years working as a visual practitioner and facilitator to foster reflective conversation, integrated learning, and collective change. Her work with visuals and facilitation ranges from working with leaders to elucidate complex ideas and organizational challenges to guiding them in the process of co-creating transformation strategies with their teams.
Marsha has partnered with organizations ranging from global companies and premier academic institutions to international foundations to local nonprofits. She has teamed with top organizations working in the space of creative, collaborative facilitation to develop thought leadership in the field. She teaches workshops and courses in both academic and organizational settings.
She is founder of Marsha Dunn Studios and co-founder of Seguinland Institute where she is the Creative Director and Faculty. She is also co-founded Seguin Tree Dwellings on the Maine coast where she designed spaces intended to foster reflection, creativity, and connection.
Applying to the course
We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity, at which point we will maintain a waitlist. Many courses fill up several weeks in advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.
You can begin the application process by using the red Enroll Now bar at the bottom of the screen.
Health and Safety
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Have questions?
Contact Us if you would like to speak with a program director or visit our Frequently Asked Questions page for answers to common questions about our courses.
Upon finishing this course, you will earn a certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This course may also count toward MIT Sloan Executive Certificate requirements.
As a participant in this course, you will learn how to
- Engage the power of inquiry, cultural awareness, and a growth mindset to manage transitions
- “Mind the curves” of adjustment, learning, and emotional response
- Frame your role of as an effective leader in times of transition
- Identify threats and address them openly with your team
- Understand the role of social defenses during times of uncertainty
- Create organizational support at each phase of the change curve
- Sustain psychologically safe and compassionate transition cultures
- Provide better transition support to individuals and teams virtually
- Identify and engage in positive transitions at home and in communities
Sample Schedule—Subject to Change
This course has been developed for
- Individuals who want to improve their ability to navigate the transitions that result from disruptive change and/or create an organizational culture that can support individuals and teams as they do so
- Senior leaders and professionals engaged in change management
This content is highly applicable to the new world of substantial systemic change and the impact it has on our roles in radically shifting organizational models.
Tracks
Management and Leadership
Certificate Credits
2.0 EEUs
Topics
- Digital Business & IT
- Organizations & Leadership
- Strategy & Innovation