Speaker: Dr. Tolchinsky
Time: 6-7:30pm CT, Thursday, Feb 1
This is a virtual event (Zoom)
Program Description:
During this session we will talk about resistance, in the change management context. What are the key ingredients to overcoming resistance and what can you do, to give it voice. Resistance is a gift to be mined. People resist because they care, if they didn't care, they would just smile and look the other way....in this session we will explore how to embrace it and shift the energy from resistance to enablers.
Outcomes:
Learn to "sell" the change to resistors
Tools and techniques for uncovering and embracing resistance
Find your own hot spots, emotions that set you off...how do you manage self in the relationship with someone who is "resisting?"
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Dr. Tolchinsky
Dr. Tolchinsky has been consulting to major corporations around the world for the past forty years. He has extensive experience in managing large system change efforts; new plant design and start-ups; redesigning organizations (both public and private sector); and employee involvement and participative work systems. Paul's expertise is in the design of systems, applying socio-technical systems principles to organizations. He has designed/redesigned production systems, new facilities, high tech organizations and broader eco-systems.
Paul is the pioneer of Real Time Work Design (Large Group Interventions by Bunker and Alban, Jossey Bass, 1997), an approach to work design that involves whole organizations (often up to 800-1,000 employees at a time) and the Whole-Scale™ Change technology mentioned in Fusion Leadership (Daft and Lengel, Berrett Koehler, 1998). He is the author of over 50 articles on organization design and the co-author of two books on Large Group Methods entitled: Unleashing the Magic in Organizations: The Whole-Scale Approach and Unleashing the Magic: A Toolkit (2000).
In recent years he has been an invited speaker and guest lecturer on the design of systems and the future of work in Europe, Australia, India, Brazil, Singapore and Hong Kong. He is the co-founder of the European Organization forum, a community of Organization Design professionals (1200+ strong) across Europe. Paul's clients include the Siemens Power Systems (Germany), Continental AG (Germany), Miba AG (Austria), Knill Group (Austria), Eckes-Granini (Germany), General Electric Aerospace, Bank of America, Pratt & Whitney Engines (all USA), and Messier Dowty (Canada), and the CIA, to name just a few. Paul is the Managing Partner of Performance Development Associates. In addition, he has taught graduate courses in Organization Behavior, Organization Design and Development at Webster University (Vienna), The University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck), The Technical University of Lisbon, (Lisbon) and The School of Inspired Leadership (Gurgon, India).
Learn more about Dr. Tolchinsky via https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-tolchinsky-838394/