Making Change Happen
A Structured Approach For Supporting Organizational Transformation
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About This Course
The only certainty in business today is change. Change affects organizations of all sizes, and is happening more quickly now than ever before. But the types of big, breakthrough organizational changes that truly transform an enterprise are hard, risky and prone to failure.
While it is typically incumbent upon a company’s senior leadership to drive these initiatives from the top, it is equally important that the rest of the organization know how to support and champion these change efforts. This Learning Sprint, Making Change Happen, focuses on how to support or champion a change effort that has already been established in a company.
Consider this Sprint an inside look at how experts in change management think about the process of conceptualizing, planning and implementing bold, transformational change – and how you can apply it to a change initiative that you are facing now, or expect to in the future.
Expert Faculty

Dave Pottruck
Adjunct Faculty Member, Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management
Course Features
100% Online Course Platform
30 Minutes Per Day
Leadership Coaching
World-Class Expert Teaching
Community of Practice
What You Will Learn
A better understanding of why change is hard, risky and prone to failure
Learn how to identify resistance and barriers to change
The nine-step framework that your leadership team is using to manage breakthrough change
What You Will Do
Learn why change is hard, risky and prone to failure
Discuss how to identify resistance and barriers to change
Explore a nine-step framework that enables successful andscalable change
Course Overview
Day One
STACKING THE DECK
- Stacking the Deck
- Your Change Initiative
- The Cost of Failure
- The Irrational Side of Change Management
- Evaluating Your Change Readiness
Day Two
THE PEOPLE SIDE OF CHANGE
- The Psychology of Change Management
- The Human Response to Change
- Diamond Case
- Resistance to Change
Day Three
CONCEPTUALIZING BREAKTHROUGH CHANGE
- Why Change, Why Now?
- Recognize the Fear of Change
- Noble Failure
- The Need and Urgency to Change
Day Four
PLANNING & IMPLEMENTING BREAKTHROUGH CHANGE
- From Vision to Plan
- Anticipating Barriers
- Making it Real
- Stratacom Case
- Planning and Implementing Change
Day Five
APPLICATION AND MASTERY
- Summary and Future Actions
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