Handbook for Facilitating Change
The ultimate guide in change leadership, organisational transformation and becoming a change agent
– provided by Aalto University, for free
Handbook for Change Agents
This online handbook is based on the popular Facilitating Change university course (TU-E3170), held each spring at Aalto University. It is a blend of hands-on practice and academic theory covering the topics of change leadership, organizational transformation and organization design.
The material in this handbook consists of short lecture videos, supported by readings and example exercises from the last year’s course.
Chapters in the material:
- Chapter 1: Course Objectives
- Chapter 2: Paradigms in Organizational Reality
- Chapter 3: Uncertainty
- Chapter 4: Organizational Transformation
- Chapter 5: Lean, Agile, Design, Lean Startup…?
- Chapter 6: The Art of Facilitation
- Chapter 7: Facilitating Knowledge-sharing with Tools
- Chapter 8: Meta-skills and Meta-Routines for facilitator
- Chapter 9: Your personal style & archetypes of change agents
- Chapter 10: Societal Uncertainty and Skills Transformation
- Epilogue: Final Words and Summary
- Bonus: Free tools on Facilitation, Leadership, and Transformation
What?
The corona pandemic forced to give this course online in Spring 2020. We were overwhelmed by the outside interest of this course: 300+ students & professionals took the course. Now we are making the content of the course available for anyone via this handbook.
Why?
Even before the pandemic most organisations had huge pressure to change and adapt their organisation cultures. Often the change is driven by keywords such as agile, design thinking, and lean. How do all these fit together? And how to facilitate and lead change in the age of autonomous teams and experts?
To Whom?
This course is aimed for professionals interested in improving their leadership & facilitating skills or are looking for new tools for facilitating change in an organisation. The material is split into chapters so it can be enjoyed in short sessions, and exercises can be done alone or with a pair.
Sounds interesting?
“Facilitating Change is an effective blend of hands-on practice and academic theory for anyone interested in change leadership, organizational transform, organization design and becoming a change agent.”
– prof. Risto Sarvas
Lecturers
Risto Sarvas
Professor of Practice, Information Networks
Risto is the head of Information Networks’s B.Sc. and M.Sc. programmes at Aalto University. He is a former head of design and co-founder of the culture advisory business at Futurice. He is also one of the founding members of Lean Service Creation methodology. Risto has trained and coached close to thousand professionals, students and entrepreneurs. Risto has been directly involved in a dozen cultural transformation programmes in Finnish corporations and written few books about design, change and organisations.
Jari Ylitalo
University Lecturer,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Jari is an experienced leadership development professional, educator, coach, and facilitator. He has rich and wide experience in supporting individuals, groups and organizations to build better leadership, deeper collaboration, and efficient management practices in multiple organizations and industries. He has contributed to better leadership in roles of internal change agent, external process consultant, leadership coach, and academic scholar.
Frequently Asked Questions
Unfortunately not, this material is just an online handbook made based on university course. If you want to get credits, you are more than welcome to join the course live each spring. Read more from here.
The handbook consists of around 10 hours of lecture videos, supported by additional readings and exercises from spring 2020 course. All of the material is split into small chapters each having multiple 10-15min videos, so that you can quickly check the topics that seem interesting to you – or go through all the chapters, as you wish!
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