Keeping people with you
Culture and leadership in structural change.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Leading through Reorganisation, Mergers and Shared Services
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Structures change quickly; people, cultures and identities change slowly. This module explores Mirvis and Marks's merger syndrome, William Bridges' distinction between change and transition with its endings, neutral zone and new beginnings, and Edgar Schein's three levels of culture and three ways cultures combine. It closes with TUPE in brief and practical principles for keeping people whole through a staff transfer. In public services, leadership at the top is shared between political and managerial top teams, and reorganisation tests that relationship as never before. Drawing on the IDeA's Inside Top Teams, three-ball juggling and Heifetz's adaptive challenges, and on Dr Jonathan Huish's research in Rhondda Cynon Taf, this module covers appointing the top team early, the shadow authority, and the Top Team Development Approach with its ten behaviours in four clusters.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Identify the signs of merger syndrome and the leadership responses that reduce it.
- Apply Bridges' distinction between change and transition, including naming endings and supporting people through the neutral zone.
- Explain Schein's levels of culture and the main TUPE protections, and plan how to look after people through a transfer.
- Explain why the political and managerial top teams must work as one, and the distinct roles of members, officers and statutory officers.
- Use the three-ball juggling image to assess whether a top team is attending to vision, stakeholder interests and helping people adapt.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 06Culture, Identity and People through Structural ChangeStructures change quickly; people, cultures and identities change slowly. This module explores Mirvis and Marks's merger syndrome, William Bridges' distinction between change and transition with its endings, neutral zone and new beginnings, and Edgar Schein's three levels of culture and three ways cultures combine. It closes with TUPE in brief and practical principles for keeping people whole through a staff transfer.36 min
- 07Top Teams and Political Leadership through ReorganisationIn public services, leadership at the top is shared between political and managerial top teams, and reorganisation tests that relationship as never before. Drawing on the IDeA's Inside Top Teams, three-ball juggling and Heifetz's adaptive challenges, and on Dr Jonathan Huish's research in Rhondda Cynon Taf, this module covers appointing the top team early, the shadow authority, and the Top Team Development Approach with its ten behaviours in four clusters.36 min
Keep going.
Part of the Leading through Reorganisation, Mergers and Shared Services topic, also sold whole as Rebuilding together.
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- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, People and vesting day, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, Rebuilding together, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
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- Joining forces wiselyShared services and public sector mergers1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Vesting day and beyondVesting day, benefits realisation and embedding1 hour 15 minutes£39
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