Live workshopLeadership Development training for teams
Leading Change, Innovation, and Creativity
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Leading Change, Innovation, and Creativity
- Duration
- Half Day (4 hrs)
- Tuition
- $395.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
The plan was sound. The rollout is where it died.
Change initiatives do not usually fail because the idea was wrong. They fail in the gap between the decision and the day people have to work differently, and that gap is owned by managers who were told about it slightly before their teams were.
This workshop is about that gap. Participants learn why resistance is usually information rather than obstruction, and that the person pushing back often knows something the plan did not account for. They practice communicating a change honestly to people who will absorb its cost, which is a different skill from announcing it.
Senior leaders use this ahead of a reorganization, a system rollout, or a policy shift, ideally before the announcement rather than after it stalls. HR and learning and development leaders use it where change fatigue is high and each new initiative gets less traction than the last. It works in constrained environments, including public sector settings where the change is mandated and the leader's job is to land it well rather than to decide it.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other leadership development workshops.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led half-day workshop
- Analysis of a real change from your own organization that did not take
- Practice communicating change to teams that did not choose it
- Techniques for telling reasonable resistance from obstruction
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The session opens on why change stalls, which is rarely the reason leadership assumes. Participants examine a change from their own organization that did not take, and trace where it actually broke. Most find it broke at the layer that had to implement it without being consulted, or at the point where the old way was quietly easier and nobody removed it.
The middle is resistance. Participants practice distinguishing someone who will lose something real from someone who dislikes change in general, because the two need completely different responses. They work on communicating a change to a team that did not choose it, including the part most leaders skip: naming honestly what it will cost and not pretending it is all upside.
The last stretch is performance through transition and the innovation side. Participants learn to protect output while people are learning a new way, decide what to stop so there is room for the new thing, and create the conditions where ideas actually surface. Every exercise uses a real change from the room.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Identify where change actually breaks, which is rarely at the decision
- Tell reasonable resistance from obstruction and respond differently to each
- Communicate a change honestly to people who will bear its cost
- Name what a change will cost rather than presenting only upside
- Protect performance while people are learning a new way
- Decide what to stop so there is room for the new thing
- Create conditions where ideas surface before they are asked for
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is designed for managers and senior staff responsible for leading teams through change. Leaders who also need the stakeholder side of a major initiative can pair it with Improving Project Communications and Stakeholder Management.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$395.00 per participant
Leading Change, Innovation, and Creativity is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $395 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
- Optional courseware: the Leadership & Change Management Student Guide (Logical Operations) is available at $60 per participant and is not included in the course price
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Leadership Development training
Leadership training for managers and emerging leaders
Most managers were promoted for being good at the work, not for leading people who do it. DWC leadership training gives new and experienced managers practical tools for motivating and managing performance, leading change, improving processes, and developing the next generation of leaders through talent management and succession planning.
Workshops are built around your organization's real situations before delivery, and they combine well into a leadership development series for a cohort of new managers.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Is this training for new managers or experienced leaders?
Both. Workshops range from managerial leadership for new supervisors to leading change, talent management, and succession planning for experienced leaders.
Can leadership workshops be combined into a program?
Yes. Many organizations combine several workshops into a leadership development series for a cohort of managers, scheduled around their work.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.