The Change-Enabled Leader

Overview

This practical, one-day workshop empowers managers to positively embrace and enable change in the workplace. To move them from overwhelmed to organised; from reactive to resilient; from change-affected to change-enabling. We’ll blend the mindset, tools, and leadership behaviours needed to support teams through uncertainty.

Whether your business is scaling, restructuring, digitising or simply evolving, it equips managers to become confident communicators, resilient leaders, and proactive enablers of change.

Who It’s For

• SME Business owners, managers, team leaders, and supervisors
• Operational managers leading through growth, restructure, or transformation
• SMEs who need managers to lead people, not just manage work

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

• Understand the emotional impact of change on individuals and teams
• Recognise the manager’s role as communicator, sense-maker and stabiliser
• Gain practical frameworks to map stakeholders and lead conversations
• Develop confidence in navigating resistance and uncertainty
• Build an action plan to lead through their next real-world change

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*Exclusive discounts available for Hallidays HR Clients. Call 0161 841 1660 or email hr@hallidayshr.co.uk. Limited places available.

Workshop Structure

Morning Session – Understanding the Challenge

▸ Why Change Fails – Common pitfalls and how to avoid them

▸ The Psychology of Change – Exploring resistance, uncertainty and motivation

▸ Your Role in the Middle – Leading up, down and across

▸ Case Study Clinic – Peer discussion of real-life change challenges

Afternoon Session – Tools, Tactics and Planning

Frameworks Made Simple:
▸ ADKAR, Kotter and Lewin: From Awareness to Reinforcement
▸ The Change Curve: Understanding emotional responses
▸ Stakeholder Mapping: Clarify who matters and why

Communication in Uncertainty:
▸ Crafting your Change Message
▸ 4 Listening Levels + SBI Feedback Model

Leading with Empathy and Structure:
▸ Emotionally intelligent leadership
▸ Setting expectations, holding space, staying consistent

Action Planning & Personal Commitment

Why It Matters (For Your Business)

• Boosts success rates of transformation and change initiatives
• Equips managers to reduce disruption and resistance
• Builds a consistent, calm, and confident leadership layer
• Creates change advocates, not bottlenecks ,in the middle tier

You’ll Leave With

• A ready-to-use Change Toolkit (frameworks + templates)
• Greater self-awareness and emotional agility as a change leader
• Clearer stakeholder maps and communication strategies
• Confidence to hold the tough conversations
• A personalised Change Leadership Action Plan

Tools & Frameworks Used

• ADKAR
• Kotter’s 8 Steps
• Lewin’s 3 Phase
• Change Curve (emotional journey mapping)
• Stakeholder Map (influence and engagement planning)
• 4 Listening Levels + SBI Feedback Model (clear, empathetic communication)
• Role Clarity Map (optional tool for surfacing responsibilities in changing environments)