Team Management in Times of Change
How to get your team on board with change
Marieke Calje – van den Assem, Dharma Coaching & Consultancy
Do you envisage a struggle to getting your team on board with change? Trying to convince people by explaining all the positives and benefits of the change is not enough. Even if you convince them rationally, it will likely not be enough for them to change their current way of working. Partly because habits are hard to change (we’ve always done it this way!) but also because people don’t like the uncertainty and ambiguity that change brings. This session looks into addressing the factors behind change resistance and increasing your team’s motivation to change.
Managing Teams Through Change: Practical tips
Nicola Bromley, Fitzpatrick Referrals
You may understand the principle of ‘change curves’ but living this reality, and physically moving things forward is often harder than books and lectures describe! Nicola will discuss the importance of working with your team, being flexible with your approach and accepting adaptations to the original plan. Bringing your team with you and listening to their ideas and feedback is essential, even when this feels hard to accept initially.
Empowering Veterinary Teams for Continuous Improvement and Productivity
Craig Hargreaves, Blue Cross
Veterinary teams have the potential to significantly enhance efficiency and productivity when empowered by effective leadership. Craig will consider how leaders can enable their teams to implement continuous improvement structures, leading to sustained business growth and enhanced client experiences. Craig will discuss the importance of granting teams the autonomy, time, and space needed to develop innovative solutions.
Building High Performance Workplaces
Adrian Nelson-Pratt
It’s often assumed that making progress in practice is done in big chunks. And whilst it’s possible that transformational change can happen in that way, it’s more likely that small changes are simpler to introduce and compound over time to turbo charge the workplace performance. In this session, Adrian will look at how you carve out time to think about designing a high-performance workplace, get your team on-board by setting the agenda for change and getting the job done.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and deal with the driving factors and resisting factors to change, and increase your team’s motivation to change
- Understand the concept of the ‘change curve’ and how to accept feedback to facilitate change
- Understand how to empower veterinary teams to maximize efficiency and productivity and learn the importance of implementing continuous improvement structures to sustain growth.
- Identify the key features of a high-performance workplaces and outline plans for change implementation through building a collaborative team to deliver them
