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Gather information
Learn about individual managers, the committees they sit on and the informal networks that connect them.
The Change Pro simulation
The realities of change.
Made tangible.
Change Pro places participants inside a demanding change challenge. To succeed, they must understand people, build support and make the right decisions while time runs out.
120 simulated daysA clear mission with limited time.
24 senior managersDifferent priorities, networks and attitudes.
25 tacticsChoices that involve real trade-offs.
The scenario
Can you mobilize people when you cannot simply tell them what to do?
Participants work in small teams of internal consultants, sent by Group Head Office into a successful division. Their mission: get the division's top management to adopt a major corporate initiative, such as a Six Sigma program, within 120 working days.
The 24 managers include the CEO, his executive assistant, four vice-presidents and their directors. They have their own priorities, relationships and views on the initiative, and the teams have almost no authority over them. Success depends on reading the organization, choosing the right tactics at the right time, and learning from the responses.
How it works
Decide. Observe. Adapt.
Every tactic costs simulated time and changes how managers see the initiative. Each manager moves through awareness, interest and evaluation before adopting it.
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Influence people
Hold meetings, seek advice, send one manager to convince another, set up a pilot project or a benchmarking visit.
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Reach the organization
Use memos, workshops, external speakers, newsletters, an intranet site and more, at the right moment.
What participants learn
From understanding change to implementing it.
The simulation is the starting point of a facilitated discussion. Typical take-aways include:
- People go through stages (awareness, interest, evaluation) before they adopt a change
- Stakeholder analysis and building a guiding coalition of innovators and opinion leaders
- Understanding and using informal networks: who can influence whom?
- Combining individual, small-group and organization-wide tactics
- Doing the right things at the right time, and keeping momentum
- Creating dissatisfaction with the status quo early on
- Communicating: what, when and through which media
- The dilemmas of choosing pilot sites
A typical session
Half a day to a full day, with room for reflection.
Change Pro runs as a facilitated module of four to eight hours, with participants in teams of three to six.
Introduction
45 to 60 minutes in plenary: the mission, the organization and how to play.
Play
Around two to two and a half hours of team work on the simulation, with every team making its own choices.
Debrief
Teams compare strategies and results, then a plenary discussion draws out the lessons for real change.
Practical details
Simple to set up and run.
- DeliveryRuns in a web browser, with nothing to install. A downloadable version is also available.
- FacilitationFacilitators create a session, give participants an access code and follow the teams from a facilitator area.
- LanguageEnglish. Other languages on request.
- TeamsTeams of three to six participants. Each team plays its own copy of the simulation.
- DebriefEach team records its key learning points and can produce a report of its game for the discussion.
- PricingDepends on your program and number of participants. Request a quote.