Peter de Jager Change Management and Problem Solving Workshops

PMINZ presents

Peter de Jager Change Management and Problem Solving Workshops

Following the fantastic feedback we received about Peter de Jager’s workshop and talks from delegates at the PMINZ Conference 2009, PMINZ is delighted to announce Peter’s return to New Zealand in April to deliver a series of seminars and workshops for us.

Peter is a keynote speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to the challenge of managing change of all types within our organizations. He has published hundreds of articles on topics ranging from Problem Solving, Creativity and Change to the impact of technology on areas such as privacy, security and business. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist and Scientific American.

Peter is best known to IT audiences for his efforts to create responsible awareness of the Y2K issue – for which he received several awards from IT associations and Govt. Agencies. In addition to presentations and seminars on the topics above, he writes several regular columns, including Association Trends, CIPS across Canada, Enterprise, Globe & Mail online and Municipal World.

He has spoken in 37 (and counting) countries and is recognized worldwide as an exciting, humorous, provocative and engaging speaker. His audiences have included the World Economic Forum, The World Bank and The Bank for International Settlements. His presentations and workshops are highly interactive, fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas and most distinctively - provocative. He forces the audience, by demonstrating conflicts between their stated beliefs and behaviours, to think differently about what they thought they knew. You can read much of his work in the publications section of www.technobility.com

WELLINGTON

Venue: The St James Theatre, 77-87 Courtenay Place

Tuesday 20th April Rational Change Management: Without Hype & Myth 1-day workshop

Wednesday, 21st April The Art of Problem Solving 1-day workshop

AUCKLAND

Venue: Orams Boat Yard, 142 Beaumont Street, Westhaven

Thursday 22nd April Rational Change Management: Without Hype & Myth 1-day workshop

Friday, 23rd April The Art of Problem Solving 1-day workshop

RATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Without Hype and Myth

1-day workshop

Do you want...

• A rational approach for implementing change within your organization?
• An approach devoid of the myths and hype which serve to make a relatively simple task almost impossible?
• A reality-based model of the change process which explains not only why we resist being changed, but also how to convert our natural response to change into support and enthusiasm for the change?
• To introduce both staff and management to a way of thinking about organizational change that encourages the formation of teams, respects intelligent criticism, invites participation and breaks down the obstacles of the “we” vs. “them” culture?

What does it cover?

This one-day interactive learning workshop explores the Change Management process. The topics will include:

• The myths of change management
• The value, and flaws of human behavioural models
• The applicability of the Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle to organizational change
• The Virginia Satir Change Process Model
• The single point of failure in change management
• Why good, honest, open communications is the pivot point of change management projects
• Why resistance to change is both necessary and desirable

Why is it valuable?

You will have gained the following knowledge and skills and be able to:

• Identify threats to the Status Quo
• Involve those affected by the threat, in the selection and implementation of the change necessary to alleviate the threat
• Design a communication plan to address the real concerns of the target audience
• Respond appropriately to concerns regarding the change in order to avoid reinforcing those concerns
• Empower the organization to direct their own change
• Install support structures to shorten the transition period
• Respect the existing status quo before replacing it with another
• Minimize the pain of change in order to make it easier to embrace
• Recognize why celebrating a transition is not just a reason to throw a party

Who should attend?

• Those involved in any aspect of change management from awareness of need through to celebration of implementation
• Those required to implement new change initiatives or recover from failed implementations
• Those with expertise in management looking to increase their ability to manage “Resistance to Change”
• Staff faced with unnecessary change requiring a management acceptable means to resist
• Project leaders who want their clients to embrace the product of their efforts
• Those wishing to attain a practical, reality-based understanding of change management

This training has been crafted to allow the attendee to decide for yourself that this approach has value. The session is interactive, informative, provocative and unavoidably… fun!

Comments from past clients

"Peter's approach to change management had the audience captivated." - Pam Nintrup PMP, PMI President

"The seminar was a highly interactive learning experience." - Gordon Bartlett PMP, PMI President

"Everyone left the meeting with new ideas to put to work immediately." - JoAnne Neely PMP, PMI President

"Peter left us all with an understanding of why we resist change and how we can more effectively implement and communicate change to minimize uncertainty." - Ron Parker PMP, PMI President  

The Art of Problem Solving

1-day workshop

For the most part, we don’t typically use any sort of problem-solving methodology – unless you call ‘jumping in with both feet’ a methodology. We’re stumped by the simplest problems: even problems with only a handful of possible, and readily identified, solutions routinely confound everyone from the president of a company all the way down to the youngest student.

This workshop will challenge you to think about how you go about solving problems, identify YOUR weaknesses in this area, and provide some surprisingly simple techniques to correct those problems.

Peter will present you with a collection of puzzles (no math is involved) and asked to solve them individually, in small groups and as an audience. You will not solve many of them (the gauntlet has been thrown!); you will be adamant that your answer is correct; you will prove to yourself you were wrong; and, most importantly, you will learn the type of mistakes you made along the way.

In reality, the audience teaches themselves the rudiments of problem solving. The presenter, Peter de Jager, is only the person presenting the problems… the audience is the one finding the solution.

On a scale of 1-10 in terms of interaction, this workshop blows the top of the range. The problems will challenge the audience, they will confound the audience, but, in the end... the audience prevails.