Driving Change with the McKinsey 7s Model Training Course

Audience:

This course is designed for all staff who require a broader perspective on the Change Process to achieve the best outcomes for their area of the business.

Course Format

A blend of:

• Facilitated Discussions
• Slide Presentations
• Exercises and Case Studies

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the fundamental Change Strategies that underpin organisational change planning
• Understand how to apply the 9 Change Principles
• Develop a Change Plan tailored to their specific area of the business

This intensive one-day programme equips senior managers and decision-makers with the tools, strategies, and confidence to lead organisational change initiatives effectively. It addresses both the technical and human sides of change, ensuring participants can navigate resistance, inspire commitment, and deliver sustainable transformation. By combining theory, real-world case studies, and practical exercises, participants will leave with a clear roadmap to initiate, manage, and embed change within their organisations.

This one-day Change Management course equips employees with practical tools and strategies to navigate and adapt to organisational changes, even when they hold no formal decision-making authority. The training focuses on understanding the nature of change, managing personal and team reactions, and maintaining productivity and morale throughout transitions. Participants will gain insights into how change impacts individuals, explore methods for reducing resistance, and practice resilience-building techniques to thrive in evolving work environments. By the end of the course, participants will be able to apply change management principles to their own roles, enhancing both their adaptability and their contribution to organisational success.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or onsite) is designed for individuals experiencing stress who wish to manage it effectively and achieve a calmer, clearer, and more energised state in their daily lives.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the two types of stress: distress and eustress.
• Articulate your personal indicators of stress and what helps relieve it.
• Create a plan with specific routines to enhance calm, clarity, and energy, while minimising the stress accumulated throughout the day.
• Shift negative emotions and boost positive ones using proven techniques.
• Address disempowering, stress-causing beliefs around work, life, and relationships.

Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a highly interactive two-day course that blends teaching, group discussions and a fully immersive simulation to demonstrate how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams and organisations manage and enhance the delivery of products and services to their customers.

The Kanban Method offers practical, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It begins with what you currently do and pursues incremental change while respecting existing roles, responsibilities and job titles, and encouraging leadership at all levels. This enables organisations to gradually evolve business processes, define and apply relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change initiatives.

Upon completing this course, you will gain a solid understanding of the Kanban principles and general practices, along with the skills needed to confidently apply Kanban within your organisation.

What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse demand versus capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualisations
- Identify and prioritise improvements
- Select appropriate cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Who Is This Course For?
Anyone involved in product development or knowledge work. This includes, but is not limited to:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
Senior management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile within their organisation

Who should attend: Managers seeking to boost productivity by implementing 5S and who wish to ensure they launch this essential initiative correctly.

This training course has been developed for professionals across all sectors. It can be customised for dental clinics, laboratories, offices and more. It is not intended for academic purposes but provides practical guidance on how to implement 5S.

The course is designed for leaders and change agents who want to ensure they are introducing 5S in the right way.

Every participant will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience through a series of exercises that demonstrate the effectiveness of 5S.

Upon completing the training, you will:

• Understand how 5S works and improve efficiency by 10 to 30%
• Be able to identify sources of waste and improve profitability
• Understand the rationale behind the five-step process and know how to implement it
• Gain access to tools and procedures that support process improvement
• Develop a concrete plan to introduce 5S in your workplace

If you are looking to improve workplace efficiency, secure more orders, enhance customer satisfaction and boost safety, you cannot afford to miss this course.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to introduce, implement, and sustain 5S practices effectively in their organisation.

Are you finding it challenging to implement Agile within your organisation? Is the change too prescriptive? Are your teams overburdened, less productive, yet still too resistant for a revolutionary shift?

Choose the "Alternative Path to Agility" and implement an evolutionary and humane Change Management Method that doesn't overhaul your process but improves it.

The Kanban Method offers pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It begins with what you are doing now and respects current roles, responsibilities, and job titles. This enables organisations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programmes.

If your team is overwhelmed, Kanban can help you regain control of your work. Kanban is a new technique for dynamically managing your process and revealing bottlenecks.

This training provides the skills and knowledge you need to apply Kanban in your work and learn how to determine what to focus on now, what to defer for later, and what to remove from your to-do list for good.

Learning Outcomes

This one-day course covers the fundamentals of the Kanban Method® and serves as the entry point and starting place on the alternative path to agility.

Attendees will become familiar with the Kanban Method. They will be able to design and implement a basic Kanban board, understand work item types and the risks associated with specific items, and recognise a variety of team Kanban board designs and styles. They will also know how to choose a design best suited to their context. Additionally, they will gain awareness of the training roadmap and the value and benefits to be gained at each step along the "alternative path to agility."

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for any professional working in a product development or knowledge-work environment who is interested in discovering how Kanban can help improve working environments. Kanban works across multiple functions within an organisation, from senior staff looking to adopt Lean Management to delivery teams eager to improve their working practices. Previous attendees have included professionals in roles such as:

• Senior Management Positions (CxO)
• Program and Project Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts
• Scrum Team Members
• Scrum Masters, Team Leads, and Change Agents
• Product & Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Other roles, including HR and Finance professionals