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Experience
Work through the practical challenges of implementing change in an organization of diverse personalities, motivations and relationships.
The Change Pro simulation
Practice making change happen.
Successful change takes more than a good plan. It takes an understanding of people, the ability to build support, and the confidence to make difficult decisions.
Change Pro lets participants practice exactly that, in a realistic business simulation.
Trusted since 2004 by business schools, organizations and consultants.
Your missionWin the support of 24 managers
Day 42of 120
Illustration of the challenge. The real simulation is shown below.
Bridging the knowing–doing gap
Knowing what to do isn't the same as doing it.
Most managers already know a lot about change. They have taken the courses, learned the frameworks and can explain what should, and should not, be done.
But knowing the principles is not the same as applying them. Faced with real decisions, tight deadlines and people who react in unexpected ways, even experienced managers often fail to put into practice what they know.
Change Pro makes that gap visible. Participants take charge of a realistic change initiative and experience the consequences of their choices. A structured debrief then helps them see where their actions departed from what they knew, rediscover key principles and take fresh insights back to work.
See how it worksThe simulation
A difficult challenge.
A chance to put ideas into practice.
Sent by Head Office into a successful division, participants must win support for a major corporate initiative, with little formal authority and before time runs out.
120simulated days
to make progress
to make progress
24senior managers
to convince
to convince
25tactics
to choose from
to choose from
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Read the organization
Discover individual priorities, informal networks and different attitudes toward change.
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Choose your approach
Decide when to gather information, meet individuals, involve groups or address the whole organization. Every tactic costs time.
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Learn from the consequences
Read the organization's response, rethink your approach and reflect with others on what the experience reveals.
How learning happens
Learn by making decisions.
Not just hearing about them.
A shared simulation experience creates rich opportunities for discussion, discovery and transfer to participants' own work.
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Experiment
Try different tactics, adapt your strategy and see how one intervention can build momentum, or resistance.
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Reflect
Compare approaches with other teams, challenge assumptions and apply the lessons to real situations.
Who it's for
One simulation.
Three ways to create value.
Change Pro provides a practical shared experience for management development, education and client engagements.
01 / Organizations
Turn change plans into action.
Help managers and project teams build shared understanding and practice the human side of implementing change.
Explore organizations ↗02 / Business schools
Bring the theory to life.
Give students and executives an experience they can analyze, debate and apply beyond the classroom.
Explore education ↗03 / Consultants
Add experience to expertise.
Bring a structured, interactive learning experience to client programs and capability-building engagements.
Explore consulting ↗Built on research
Designed by a leading professor of leadership and change.
The Change Pro Simulation® is based on the content expertise of Professor Jean-François Manzoni, currently Professor of the Practice of Management at IESE Business School after serving for many years on the faculty of INSEAD and IMD.
It builds on the "Organizational Change Game" developed by Janet Near at Indiana University, and on ideas discussed by Jean-François Manzoni and Albert Angehrn in an award-winning article published in the Journal of Management Information Systems (Vol.14, No.3, pp.109-140).
About Learning WaysIn their words
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Change Pro is an outstanding learning experience. It is an ideal capstone to our Executive Strategic Business Leadership Program.
Holly J. Raider
Kellogg School of Management
Kellogg School of Management
Make change something people can practice, not just discuss.
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