Publisher Notes

• Implementing change is difficult. However, when needs of impacted parties are considered and critical conversations are fostered, it is possible to get everyone moving with you.

  Real-life examples from a recent curriculum redesign project within the School of Public Affairs and Administration will be discussed and participants will apply concepts to a change initiative of their own.

  Attendees will leave the session armed with several new concepts and tools to help them meet impacted parties on their own terms and determine how to move forward successfully.

  By the end of the session, participants will have begun or completed the following elements in support of a change initiative of their own: an appropriate strategy for moving forward based on a stakeholder analysis, a rationale for the change that fits the needs of the community, an assessment of the elements of resistance to the change, and identification of one or more conversations needed to carry the change forward.