Workshop Series

 

The Tipping Point Simulation™: Leadership in Change

Presented by COLE and Strategic Development, Inc.

Friday, April 24, 2009

9:00am-Noon

The Fuqua School of Business- Jenkins Conference Room A&B

Workshop Fee - $150.00

Register Online or download a registration form (pdf.), or call 919-660-7992

Seating is limited to 20-60 participants

The Tipping Point Simulation™ is a nationally successful half-day leadership development simulation showing managers how to set up changes that last. In small teams, participants compete on a case study to see who can create the longest lasting change - on time and on budget. The simulation concludes with discussion of best practices for creating, sustaining and managing change, after which participants apply learning to their own projects. Designed exclusively for mid to upper level leaders with budget and headcount authority.

OBJECTIVE
Learn a clear, real-time lesson in management and best practices for creating, sustaining and managing change. Return to Fuqua and take advantage of this opportunity to meet, network and connect with students and alumni.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• How to manage "positive infection" - the acceptance and implementation of major change in employee populations
• How to take an initiative and make it last, deal with resistance, and create advocacy
• Seven proven strategies and in what combinations to use them to affect action, sustainability, and cost reduction
• The importance of inevitability; never worry about “buy-in" again!

HOW PARTICIPANTS BENEFIT

• The simulation is very realistic and demonstrates valuable real-time lessons in management
• Participants learn the critical reasons why groups cycle through "Flavor of the Month" so frequently
• Everyone comes away with specific ideas to improve how their organization starts and sustains change
• The friendly competition built into the Tipping Point Simulation™ between teams increases enjoyment, interaction, and participant involvement
• Participants think more deeply how strategies can be made real in their own work environment
• Each participant receives the Tipping Point Simulation™ Workbook

AGENDA

• Welcome and Overview
• Demonstration: specifics of the simulation, including sample runs
• Small teams to discuss and devise a simulated organizational change strategy
• Run each team's strategy on the simulation
• Small team discussion on specific application to their organizational change efforts
• Report out on applications to current change initiatives
• Summary and Evaluation

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
George Smart is a nationally recognized strategic consultant for leadership development and executive coaching. Drawing from an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business plus training from the Center for Creative Leadership and the Einstein School of Medicine, George speaks on leadership to Fortune 500 companies and national associations on how to make the workplace less insane and more profitable.  Some of his clients include Boeing, Bayer, Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline, the National Society of Professional Engineers, the CIA. Away from the podium, George plays armchair detective in search of the Knights Templar, special agents of the Pope in the 12th century. George and his book, The Knights Templar Chronology , were featured in a recurring History Channel documentary, Decoding the Past.  He is Board Chair of Triangle Modernist Archive, the nation's largest historical preservation website for cool, modernist residential architecture.

DIRECTIONS
Directions to Fuqua
Directions to Jenkins Conference Room

For more information please contact COLE Program Manager at tejumade.ajasa@duke.edu or 919 660 7992.