Instructor: Blaine Bartlett; President and CEO, Avatar Resources, Inc.

Mr. Bartlett is the author of the books Leadership and Innovation, Ideals in Motion, and Life Between the Cracks.

Our focus in this program is on two fundamental success imperatives that are critical to long term success – your organization's development strategy and your organization’s culture. 

Developing and sustaining an organization today that is successful requires that the organization be designed to accommodate – even embrace - rapid change. Interestingly, the rapid and continual rate of change is not the problem that many assume it to be. The problem with change lies with what change does to relationships within and outside of the organization.

It is our premise in the program that an organization’s effectiveness is a function of the organization’s ability to successfully implement strategic changes… and implementation is always going to be at effect of the organization’s developmental status and its culture.  Questions we will explore are:

• Is the organization designed to accommodate the change?

• Does the organization’s leadership know how to impact the culture to create a critical mass sufficient to sustain a change process?

• What key elements of the organization’s design are critical to manage?

• How does the organization’s leadership influence and move a resistant culture?

This course will explore structured & practical ways of quickly identifying areas of breakdown & identify interventions designed to foster & support the implementation of change. Participants in the program can realistically expect to leave having learned fundamental strategies & tactics that are designed to assist them in improving their organization's overall effectiveness.

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