As a team leader, or a team member, learn the process for leading change and understand the impact (positive and negative) of change in your organisation.
Location: Hardware Association Ireland, Blackchurch Business Park, Rathcoole, Dublin
Date: Wednesday, 24th September 2025
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Cost: HAI Members: €225; Non Members: €285
For more information please contact Aoife at aoife@hardwareassociation.ie or call 01 2980969.
Further Recommended Learning:
Performance Managing the Sales Team
Leadership & Communication Skills
Personal Effectiveness & Time Management
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Learn about the 5 stages of the Change Curve, how to cope themselves, and how to guide others along the change curve
- As a team leader, or a team member, learn the process for leading change
- Work through at least one actual change challenge from the group to see how the theory applies in their situation.
Course Content
Team expectations for the day – what changes they are facing in their current work life. This gives context to the day.
Who moved my Cheese?
- Short Video overview of the book followed by group discussion.
Workplace Change is Complicated
- Breakout group discussion of the positive and negative aspects
The Change Curve (Elizabeth Kubler Ross)
- The 5 stages
- Coaching through the change curve
- Real life is not a linear graph – we can get stuck and/or vacillate between the stages
Kotter’s 8-step process for Leading Change
The 5 Conflict Styles Management Quiz
(Breakout Group Exercise) Think about a change we’d like to see in our work environment.
Bring the Team on a journey
- Identify Skills & Competencies
- Build the right skills for the right people
- Dealing with bumps along the road
- Maintaining momentum
- Monitoring & Review of Change
Breakout groups present back to the full room
Commitment to taking action on implementing a positive change in our workplace.
Who Should Attend
This full-day workshop is recommended to senior managers, team leaders and business owners responsible for overseeing, managing and executing change in their organisation.
Methodology
This workshop is interactive. Participants will complete individual and group exercises to reinforce learning.
About the trainer
Dervilla O’Brien combines coaching and training expertise with more than twenty-five years of corporate experience as a member of senior management teams across a range of companies. Dervilla was Sales Director in Irish Biscuits (Jacobs), Tayto and Golden Pages. She has been a key negotiator with staff, customers, prospective buyers and owners.
Dervilla delivers leadership and management training to numerous organisations in the public and private sectors, large and small. She has worked with a rage of Skillnets, including ICOS and Positive 2 Work. She is an Associate Faculty member in Dublin Business School.
For more information please contact Aoife at aoife@hardwareassociation.ie or call 01 2980969.