To turn your good ideas into reality, it is essential to have a deep understanding of change processes, including how both people and organisations function within these processes. It is crucial to establish effective collaboration across leaders and employees so that changes make sense and create value for both the individual employee and the entire organisation.

• A deeper and new understanding of change, change management, and their prerequisites
• Methods to analyse change within your own organisation, including sensemaking and narrative
• A deeper understanding of your own and others’ roles in organisational change
• Reflection on concrete experiences with change from your own organisation
• Insights from various other organisations’ experiences with working with time and continuity in change

Change management often fails because the focus is on the goal without considering where the organisation is and how it got there in the first place. In this course, we focus on achieving change through sensemaking, where continuity plays a vital role. Sensemaking occurs in the interaction between all employees and leaders and is the foundation for gaining support for changes, so they are translated into action across the organisation.

This course is not a review of all approaches to change management but is anchored in a process-theoretical understanding of how organisations and people function. A central idea in the course is that an organisation moves from the past to the present towards the future, and the success of change efforts is strongly linked to how meaningful they are perceived by all employees.