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Change Makers Assessment
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What is a Change Maker?
Change Makers are rare individuals who drive lasting change by prioritizing the organization’s good, making authentic human connections, and treating change as a process, not an event. They excel at all three, ensuring effective and enduring transformation.
- Ensure efficient project management with accurate timelines and budgets, saving time and money.
- Learn strategies to manage tasks better, reducing stress and headaches.
- Promotes Emotional Intelligence, fostering a healthier and more adaptable workplace.
- Develop talent and helps identify and promote potential within the organization.
- Enhance daily tasks and relationships, empowering participants to positively influence their workplace and future.
Save Time and Money
With Change Makers, streamline your project timelines and budget management, saving you time and money from the start.
Enhances Career Advancement
Change Makers helps you stand out and equips you to identify and develop talent within your organization.
Improves Workdays, Boosts Influence, and Brightens Futures
Change Makers equips you with tools to tackle daily challenges, enhance communication, and foster positive relationships, ensuring a brighter future at work.
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Discover “The Art and Science of Emotional Intelligence”
Are you ready to unlock the potential of Emotional Intelligence and enhance your professional skills? The Art and Science of Emotional Intelligence is the first building block for the program. Build better relationships, increase your influence, grow your resilience, understand the people you work with even better so that you can make authentic connections with them, lead them, inspire them, and let your voice be heard. Emotional Intelligence is one of the most in-demand skills today. Whether you’re looking to grow your own skills or help others around you, this is a perfect place to start.
“The training was perfect, it covered so much, and it really does impact the things you need to make change within an organization, both at team level and at company level.Better agendas for meetings, better understanding of meeting leaders, and being able to help others through information learned on project management.”
“I was in Change Makers with another leader in my workplace, and we hold each other accountable. We ask ourselves if we closed the meeting correctly, etc. It’s nice to have someone else accountable that went through it at the same time as you.”
“Through the individual coaching, I was able to take things I was struggling with and get feedback and learn how I could approach the situations. I am more thoughtful about my communication and I am looking at how others want to receive communication rather than my own preferences.”
“This program has helped me develop critical skills in leading through change, and I’m now much more confident in my ability to guide teams and leaders through transitions. I highly recommend this program from Your Clear Next Step. It’s valuable for anyone, no matter your level of experience.”
Change Makers: 8-Session Program
Elevate professionally and personally with the Change Makers Certification program, an 8-module curriculum designed to equip you with applicable skills, knowledge, and tools you can use right away.
Sessions are live virtual sessions, held with a small cohort of up to 10 learners, guided by an expert facilitator in each subject area. Sessions meet on a consistent basis each month, with time between sessions to apply the learnings from the previous session. Each session is a full day (scheduled 8:30-4:30 Central time, with breaks) to allow for focused time to step away from your regular work for focused learning and development).
Session 1: The Art and Science of Emotional Intelligence
Raise your Emotional Intelligence and leverage it more effectively. Emotional Intelligence is the foundation of effective influence. Without it, leadership and influence are impossible. Regardless of where you are in your own Emotional Intelligence journey, you’ll walk away with tools you can use to be even better, as well as ways to influence those around you in growing their own Emotional Intelligence.
Session 2: Advanced Facilitation
When meetings waste time or go off the rails, we all lose. Gain and practice proven techniques to protect the productivity of meetings and keep things moving forward well, even in the face of apathy, distractedness, excessive chattiness, resistance, hostility, unreasonable dominance, and other unproductive behaviors. Prepare to facilitate even the highest-stakes meetings with any of the most challenging participants, and empower others to be great attendees.
Session 3: The Art and Science of Process Improvement and Problem Solving
Learn a proven, repeatable approach to tackling tough problems that will keep them from rearing their ugly heads again. Get to the right problem, pick the right solution, and get moving forward on the right next step. With practical, hands-on examples, and a fast-paced interactive style, you’ll gain tools you can use right away for improved decision-making, problem solving, prioritization, collaboration, and action-planning. Stop wasting time solving the wrong problems or getting distracted with the first solution that comes along.
Session 4: Bringing Out The Best In Others
Your position gives you power, but are you using it well? Gain proven techniques for expectation setting, providing feedback, holding others accountable, and expressing appreciation in ways that bring out the best in those around you. Whether you’re a formal leader or in an indirect or informal leadership role, leveraging your positional power will help you set (and achieve!) better, SMART-er goals with and through others.
Session 5: Foundations of Project Management
Get things done well! Over 55% of business projects fail to achieve their stated goals on time or within the expected budget. Learn to set a solid foundation for success with proven tools and our best-selling class so you don’t fall in that stat! Gain specific, actionable techniques in balancing scope, time, and cost; practice using tools for managing your project(s) in a way that inspires others to take the appropriate action; encounter the project lifecycle and the key, non-negotiable elements that keep projects on the road to success.
Session 6: Advanced Collaboration
You’ve been doing this for a while – you’ve got habits, practices, techniques, and a reputation for being capable. Now what? How do you keep advancing? Explore proven techniques seasoned leaders, professionals, and others can apply to step up your game even further, to continue to increase your positive influence within your environment, and leverage your personal power to make it seem like working with people is the easiest thing in the world for you!
Session 7: Coaching As a Mindset
A rising tide lifts all boats, and coaching helps others elevate their game. Coaching isn’t limited to formal leaders or even to positional power. Incorporate coaching into your daily interactions and watch accountability around you soar. Practice using tools and models that you can implement immediately to reinforce positive behaviors and prevent future discord. Start your journey of coaching as a mindset, not just an occasional practice.
Session 8: Enabling Change in an Organizational Context
Change is among the most disruptive forces at work, but it doesn’t have to be. Learn to anticipate, navigate, and communicate through change in a way that protects business interests, empowers people, and simplifies the process. Gain a handful of key concepts such as change appetite, learn to define the terms to make change simpler, allow a growth mindset to set the stage for the future, embrace and model a people-positive attitude, and draw change as a journey. Become a change maker who makes change stick with less pain.
Plus These Bonus Resources:
Along with the 8 modules listed above, you’ll receive…
- Six virtual one-on-one coaching sessions with a certified coach
- The first session helps set a developmental plan for the program, and the sixth session includes assessment of progress towards goals.
- Self-reflection journal with questions related to each module
- Networking guide with tips and tricks to help you grow your Change Makers network
- Access to ongoing professional development, including quarterly live trainings, LinkedIn community, and first-to-know training opportunities
Change Makers Certification Program
The Change Makers Program is Ideal for:
- Team Leaders and Mid-Level Managers:
- Front-line or mid-level leaders with potential for senior leadership.
- Senior or Second-in-Command Leaders:
- Typically responsible for strategic direction and organizational growth, with a focus on improving processes and team dynamics.
- Advamced Front-Line Individual Contributors, Business Analysts, or Project Managers:
- Often involved in the day-to-day execution of projects and analysis, looking to enhance their professional capabilities and career prospects.
- HR Professionals and Leaders:
- Manage recruitment, training, development, and employee relations, ensuring the organization’s workforce is effective and well-supported.
- Process Improvement Champions:
- Influential individuals at any organizational level who understand the importance of process
How is this course different?
Change Makers stands out by focusing on a holistic approach to leadership and organizational improvement, combining Emotional Intelligence, advanced facilitation, and process improvement. Unlike typical programs, Change Makers emphasizes practical, hands-on skill development and real-world application, ensuring participants can immediately implement what they learn to drive lasting change.