Leading Change 5: Integrate change initiatives

Build links and common themes connecting multiple initiatives/elements of change

Relate individual efforts with the greater whole

Resolve overlaps and conflicts by making choices

On-the-Job

Participate in a cross-functional team to learn how issues impact different areas of the business Analyze recent changes to determine the impact on each affected organization and to identify where compromises and trade-offs were made

Education and Training

• Organizational Change Skills for HR Managers (Cornell University, 607-255-1504, 6 days, $3900)
• Managing Change (Stanford Executive Briefings, 415-381-9363, Video, $95)
• Consulting in Your Company (SHRM with the University of Southern California, 703-548-3440, 4 days, $2250)
• Managing Individual and Organizational Change (University of Virginia, 804-924-3000, 4 days, $3700)
• Designing Culture Change (The Human Resource Planning Society, 212-490-6387, 2 days, $1095)
• Facilitating Change (Interaction Associates, 800-347-8352, 4 days, $2095)
• NTL Institute
     ---Facilitating and Managing Complex System Change, 1 week, $1695
     ---Power to Change Whole Systems, 1 week, $1395
• Leading Organizational Change and Development (Novations Group, 801-375-7525)
• Leadership Skills for Managers (American Management Association Self-Study Course, 518-891-1500, $99)
• Managing Change Conference (Conference Board, 212-339-0345, 2 days, $975)

Reading

• J.D. Fordyce and R. Weil, Managing with People: A Manager's Handbook of Organizational Development Methods (Addison-Wesley, 1979)
• Mary V. Gelinas and Roger G. James, Collaborative Change: Improving Organizational Performance (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 1999)
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter, On the Frontiers of Management (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
• Robert W. Keidel, Seeing Organizational Patterns (Berrett-Koehler, 1995)
• John P. Kotter, Leading Change (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)
• Price Waterhouse, Better Change: Best Practices for Transforming Your Organization (Irwin, 1995)
• Price Waterhouse Change Team, Paradox Principles (Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995)
• Peter Senge, et al., The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization (Currency/Doubleday, 1999)
• LeRoy Thompson, Jr., Mastering the Challenges of Change (AMACOM)
• Thomas E. Vollmann, The Transformation Imperative: Achieving Market Dominance through Radical Change (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)
• Harry Woodward, Navigating through Change (Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994)

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