Change Management: Training for internal “change agents”
Client: Medium-sized company, Germany and international
International employees: approx. 6000
Participants: 15 + 15
Time frame: 2019 and 2023, 2 cohorts of 8 months each
Contact person: Thomas Huber
Initial situation:
The company had set itself a clearly internationally oriented strategy with a strong focus on growth: new products, new markets, new production sites. From the outset, it was clear that this meant a huge challenge for the internally available “change competence”.
It was necessary not only to get as much professional support as possible for the planned strategy implementation from outside, but also to provide it internally.
To this end, a total of 30 HR officers and HR business partners were trained in integrated, systemic change management in a total of 10 face-to-face and online modules.
Description:
There were different levels of learning and development in the training:
- the level of personal development and the level of the participants' professional roles
- the level of teams and team interventions
- the level of systemic corporate development
- the methodological level of planned and strategic change management
Results:
The training was challenging and intensive from every perspective. I would like to emphasize that a central result for the participants was that they actively and consciously reflected on the role of their own influence on strategy-oriented change projects. And ultimately, they were able - not to carry out every upcoming intervention themselves - but to recognize in all areas of the company they were responsible for where change would have a significant impact on the entire organizational system and its people, and to accompany this change professionally, consciously and methodically from the very beginning.
