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Achieving change: the role of training and development a one day workshop on 8 March in London Is your service currently engaged in one or more of the following: restructuring, introducing new services, becoming a learning resource organisation, knowledge management, changing the organisation's culture or creating an environment in which people are ready for constant change? Successfully managing the human aspects of such change, of which training and development form one component, is likely to be central to achieving any useful change. Training and development are here defined to include creating any opportunity for learning that helps to facilitate the process of achieving change. A casual conversation with a senior manager in which the vision of what is to be achieved is further explained, formal briefing sessions and written newsletters, workshops about theory of change, team building for a new team, and specific skills are examples. How will this event help you? This workshop will help you to arrive at a greater understanding of the human aspects of organisational change management in particular the role of training and staff development. By the end of the day you will have: * appraised how change impacts on the individual * identified ways of helping individuals work through change * considered how to identify the potential for useful change in an organisation * explored how to work with resistance to change * examined the diverse use and operation of groups in change management The workshop will be participative and draw on your experience of change. You will have the opportunity to learn from exercises, small group work, theory input, case studies and discussion. Features You will also receive a FREE copy of 'Achieving Change: the Role of Training and Staff Development' by June Whetherly, published by The Library Association in 1998. Programme 9.00 Registration and coffee 9.30 Welcome, introductions and objectives 10.00 Change and the individual: including the transition curve 11.15 Coffee 11.30 Change and the organisation: factors which effect organisational change, closed and open system models 1.00 Lunch 2.00 Working with resistance to change: plus the limits of training staff development 3.00 Tea 3.15 Change and groups: group composition, processes and development. Case studies. 4.30 Review 5.00 Close Workshop leaders: June Whetherly, Develop People>>Develop Services, is a consultant focussing on organisational, group and individual development. She was previously a senior library manager. She is particularly interested in facilitating learning leading to change. Places are limited to: 20 Fees LA Personal members £125 plus VAT (£21.87) £146.87 LA Institutional members £151 plus VAT (£26.42) £177.42 Non members £175 plus VAT (£30.62) £205.62 LA Student/Unwaged members £25 plus VAT (£4.37) £29.37 To book your place please call Professional Development on 020 7255 0560, textphone 020 7255 0505, or email [log in to unmask] Philippa McGurk Marketing Executive, Professional Development The Library Association 7 Ridgmount Street London W1CE 7AE Tel: 020 7255 0563 Textphone: 020 7255 0505 Fax: 020 7255 0561 Email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%