Leading in Tough Times 3: Leading People Through Change (Includes Simulation)
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The World Future Society projects that there will be more change in this decade than in the past 200 years, and in the past 200 years, we've seen the development of railroads, automobiles, airplanes, the Internet, cell phones, and open-heart surgery. And that's just a sample. The half-life of an engineer's knowledge today is only five years. In electronics, half of what students learns as freshmen is obsolete by their senior year. In your organization, if you are not in the midst of a project involving some kind of change, you will be by the end of the year, or your organization won't exist.Richard S. Deems and Terri A. Deems, in their book: Leading in Tough Times • The Manager's Guide to Responsibility, Trust, and Motivation from HRD Press, give ample guidelines and practical suggestions to lead people through change. In this course, you learn some practical guidelines to effectively deal with continual change, motivate people, handle people when your company is in financial trouble, and handle layoffs and downsizing.