To provide a framework through which all organizational
change can be understood
To understand how the interplay of many factors—your
leadership style, culture, and organizational dynamics—impact
your organization’s capacity for change
To provide best practices, tools, assessments, and case
studies of leaders who excel in creating and sustaining
organizational change.
To develop skills in leading change that can be transferred
to others in the organization.
Theme
Reading
Discussion
Questions
Week
One
Models
of change
“Leading
Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail”
by John Kotter, Harvard Business Review, March,
1995.
“Evolution and Revolution as Organizations
Grow,” by Larry Greiner, Harvard Business
Review, May, 1998.
“How Management Teams can have a good
fight,” by Kathleen Eisenhardt, Harvard
Business Review, November 2000.
“Bringing Silicon Valley Inside,”
by Gary Hamel, Harvard Business Review, May
2000.
1.
Compare and contrast the 4 articles. How do organizations
change? What is the role of the leader in each
model? Which model do you like? Why?
2. What questions do the articles raise to
you about your organization?
3. How can you implement the ideas from the
models? What action steps can you take now that
will help prepare your organization for change?
Week
Two
Leadership
Case Study
“Charlotte
Beers at Ogilvy & Mathers Worldwide,”
Harvard Business Review Case Study.
Discussion
Questions Provided During This Week's Session
Week
Three
Tools
of Change
“Birkeland
Institute Leading Change Toolkit,” by Peter
Birkeland. Tools to assess your capacity to change,
leadership style, learning style, organizational
culture.
1.
You have several tools and assessments about your
organization, culture, values, and change capacity.
Which of these tools seems most relevant to your
situation? Why?
2. How can you leverage your results to drive
your organization forward?
Week
Four
Creating
a Critical Mass
None.
1.
Summary of major findings
2. Discussion of key learning
3. Action steps to take and timeframe to completion.
4. Q&A on all topics.
About Peter...
Peter Birkeland is a keynote speaker,
author, and president of the Birkeland Institute, a management
consultancy founded in 2000. Peter and his colleagues help
clients create break-through strategies, change their organizational
culture for improved performance, and reinvigorate their leaders
and managers for long-term growth. Clients include global
corporations, entrepreneurial start-ups, and non-profits.
Prior to founding the Birkeland Institute Peter worked with
strategy guru Gary Hamel and in Accenture’s change management
practice.
Peter is also adjunct professor of strategic management and
organization at the Carlson School of Management, University
of Minnesota, a top 25 business school, and lectures at the
University of Chicago. Peter’s book, Franchising Dreams,
has positive reviews from the Wall Street Journal, Library
Journal, Washington Monthly, and other noteworthy publications.
He has appeared on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,”
CNN,s “Money Matters,” as well as numerous local
and national radio programs. Peter is recognized as one of
the leading experts in small business having been named “one
of the top ten minds in small business” by Fortune Small
Business.
Peter is a member of the Metropolitan Board of the Children’s
Home and Aid Society of Chicago. He lives with his wife and
four children in Chicago.
