Leadership Live: Overcoming Resistance to Change

Instructor: Marilu Goodyear, Assistant Vice Chancellor, KU Edwards Campus, Professor, KU School of Public Affairs and Administration¹

Change is happening in your organization. Every day, new initiatives and projects are launched to improve performance, increase profits, and enhance your competitive advantage. Organizational change is a process in which an organization optimizes performance as it works toward its ideal state, as a reaction to an ever-changing environment, a response to a current crisis situation, or is triggered by a strong leader with a strong vision for the future.

You'll learn to:

• Plan for change in a dynamic environment.
• Convince others that your change idea is a good one.
• Leverage your organizational strengths to implement a no-fail change process.
• Approach change resisters and engage them in the process.