Leading Teams through Organizational Change
Prepare yourself, your teams, and your organization for what lies ahead.
Customize for OrganizationsAt a Glance
- Enrollment:
- Open Enrollment
- Length:
- 6 weeks
Enhance your leadership skills to better understand the people aspects of managing organizational change.
This University of Chicago course explores the human capital implications of leading teams to achieve successful, sustained change. It will help you navigate this complex process by providing a framework of deep understanding and practical approaches to people management.
Designed For
This course is designed for early- and mid-career professionals operating in medium- to large-scale organizations currently managing teams or striving to do so and who are tasked with guiding them through organizational changes.
Learning Objectives to Become an Empowering Team Leader
Over six weeks, you will explore key factors in organizational change management, including culture, team dynamics, stakeholder management, individual commitment, and engagement.
After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Lead and prepare to oversee and execute change in your organization.
- Recognize the distinct responses of people and teams as they encounter change and uncertainty, and be able to offer affirming guidance.
- Bolster your practical tool kit and apply a leadership framework for anticipating and planning for change in your organization.
- Continue to refine your knowledge of an effective organization’s structure, culture, critical context, and how these dimensions impact the people aspects of change.
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Get in TouchLeading Teams through Organizational Change Curriculum
You will learn to:
- Explain the key human-dimension elements of how teams interact and respond to change and what leaders can do to address concerns in times of uncertainty.
- Anticipate and describe how organizational structure can influence change, as well as the advantages and risks associated with different models and how to approach them.
- Plan and be ready with actions and strategies to mitigate risks, maintain motivation as teams endure the stress of organizational change, and address important potential barriers such as stakeholder resistance or lack of commitment.
- Consider local and organizational culture as key contexts of how change is perceived, and plan for actions that can help mitigate risk and increase commitment.
- Develop initiatives that promote effective communications, individual and team engagement, critical elements of credibility, and emotional commitment to successful change, especially in a global context.
Weekly Course Schedule
Explore concepts that include globalization in context, culture, organizational culture, organizational evolution, and leadership’s role in change and preparedness.
Understand organizational structure models, their attributes, and the associated complexities and difficulties within a matrix organizational structure.
Examine team interaction and behaviors, stakeholder management issues, techniques and tools to help a team analyze stakeholders, change impact, resistance, and people’s roles during change.
Learn to plan for key actions effectively and maintain team morale and resiliency. Explore the roles of formal and informal organizational communications, especially in a global context.
Understand human factors, emotional commitment, and how to maintain high engagement in a team. Address setbacks and failures. Explore concepts like recognition and reinforcement and the importance of preserving safety and trust.
Analyze case studies and draw up a plan, sharing key learnings, exploring success and monitoring, and looking ahead.
Meet Your Instructor
Our highly trained instructors are courageous thinkers and passionate leaders who leverage years of industry expertise and up-to-date knowledge of terminology, tools, and trends to deliver an unparalleled learning experience. Through their rigorous discourse, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and field-shaping contributions, they create practical solutions and pioneering innovations that enrich our world.
Roberto Cabanelas, MBA, MSc
Vice President of Corporate Human Resources, Archer Daniels Midland
Roberto Cabanelas is the vice president of corporate human resources at Archer Daniels Midland. He acts as the senior HR leader for corporate groups and works with senior executives as their advisor in talent and organizational action and strategy.
Cabanelas earned a BA in Economics and History from...
Career Outlook
Change takes on diverse forms, and change management has grown in response to digital innovation and the breakneck speed at which the world moves today. Organizations are implementing new technologies, processes, business models, and approaches to working to keep pace with the shifting landscape. Professionals skilled in active listening, clear communication, and human relations are essential to supporting smooth transitions that retain morale and productivity. Leaders who can guide people through organizational change are vital to the sustainability of any business and are in demand across industries.
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Potential Job Titles of Organizational Change Leaders
- Business Owner
- Change Management Consultant
- Change Management Lead
- Change Manager
- Chief Executive Officer
- Corporate Human Resources Director
- Digital Transformation Specialist
- Global People Transformation Lead
- Head of Talent and Culture
- Human Resources Director
- Human Resources Manager
- Project Manager
- Strategic Communications Manager
- Training and Development Manager
- Transformative Leader
- Vice President of People
- Virtual Team Leader