What does it truly mean to be resilient? In times of uncertainty and change, how can we cultivate an environment that empowers individuals to adapt, persevere, and move forward with confidence? This workshop explores the key mindsets, behaviors, and communication strategies that strengthen resilience at every level—within leaders, teams, and ourselves. By fostering trust, adaptability, and a forward-thinking culture, participants will gain the tools to navigate challenges with clarity and create a foundation for sustained success.
Change
Become a Change Champion
Build a future-ready organization by empowering your people to embrace transformation and ambiguity with creativity and confidence.
Workshops
Resilience Through Change
Creating a Culture of Trust in Times of Uncertainty
Learning Objectives:
- Define the concepts of positive psychology, trust, and resilience, and explore the building blocks that allow this to prosper in an individual level and within a team environment
- Explore the five common traps where individuals get stuck, and practice the escape route strategies to help ourselves and others to break free
- Design a team environment where trust can thrive, and open dialogue is encouraged
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Emotional Intelligence
- Adaptability
- Effective Communication
Learning Objectives:
- Differentiate between the topics of CHANGE and TRANSITION, exploring “the people side” of change
- Identify key actions to successfully navigate each phase of transition
- Develop an action + implementation plan, fit with details of specific steps to support others during times of ambiguity
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Change Agility + Adaptability
- Increased Empathy + Awareness
- Team-Focused Strategy + Mindset
Taking Charge of Change
Navigating Ambiguity During Change + Transition
Until we can predict the future, we all must rely on an increased change agility to handle the surprises we’re thrown each day. Whether preparing for an upcoming transition, or reflecting on change scenarios we’re currently navigating, this session helps to delineate between the concepts of change and transition, showcasing key frameworks and tools that help individuals identify their own responses to change, and support one another to successfully navigate times of ambiguity.
Shift Happens: Innovation in Times of Change
Leveraging Design Theory for Strategic & Creative Transformation
In times of change, innovation isn’t just an advantage—it’s a necessity. This workshop equips participants with practical tools and strategies to embrace uncertainty, reframe challenges as opportunities, and foster a culture of creative problem-solving. Using principles of design thinking and adaptive leadership, teams will explore new ways to generate ideas, test solutions, and drive meaningful change, ensuring they stay agile and future-focused in an ever-evolving landscape.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the CURRENT STATE and FUTURE STATE of the team’s collective goals and objectives
- Experiment with design thinking methodology to begin ideation of creative, implementable action plans to fully realize your team’s ideal future state
- Leverage positive psychology to create future-focused, behavior-based outcomes
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Strategic Thinking + Goal Setting
- Creativity + Innovation
- Positive Psychology & Growth Mindset
Learning Objectives:
- Leverage improv exercises to experiment first hand with ambiguity in an effort to highlight and amplify the tools, knowledge, and behaviors we use in times of change
- Explore the components of effective storytelling and presentations to inspire an audience to take action between the topics of CHANGE and TRANSITION, and identify key actions to successfully navigate each phase of transition
- Develop an action + implementation plan for positive, long-term behavior change
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Collaboration + Trust
- Change Agility + Adaptability
- Effective Communication
IMPROVing Change + Transition Management
Leveraging Improv to Explore Ambiguity
Until we can predict the future, we all must rely on an increased change agility to handle the surprises we’re thrown each day. Improvisation is an excellent tool to experiment with the behaviors associated with change agility: thinking on our feet, active listening, and a present-focused mindset. In this workshops, participants will leverage improv exercises and change management theory to enhance the way we embrace and lead through ambiguity.
Bouncing Back from a F**k Up
Approaching Setbacks with a Learning Mindset
F**k ups may be inevitable, though staying stuck doesn’t have to be. This workshop helps participants break free from the mental traps that keeps us dwelling on past mistakes, learning how to shift our focus toward growth, resilience, and action. Through a mix of cognitive reframing techniques and practical action-oriented strategies, participants will learn how to bounce back with confidence, reignite our motivation, and turn failures into fuel for future success.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore the five common THINKING TRAPS where individuals get stuck, and discover the ESCAPE ROUTE strategies to help ourselves and others to break free
- ILeverage positive psychology to move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset
- Inspire a culture of resilience, trust, and psychological safety
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Confidence
- Emotional Intelligence
- Effective Communication
Learning Objectives:
- Differentiate between the concepts of COACHING and MENTORING in our leadership style
- Experiment with coaching methodologies to enhance our skill set, and determine the strategic questions that inspire others to feel empowered to act
- Develop an action + implementation plan for positive, long-term behavior change
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Coaching for Empowerment
- Asking Strategic Questions + Active Listening
- Talent Development
Coaching through Change + Transition
Empowering Change through Coaching Conversations
During times of change and transition, leaders have the power to inspire growth through the power of coaching. This workshop equips participants with transformational coaching skills to ask impactful questions, inspire active listening, and empower direct reports to find clarity and confidence in the midst of ambiguity. By shifting from giving answers to guiding discovery, leaders will learn how to cultivate resilience, ownership, and adaptability within their teams, ensuring they navigate change with purpose and momentum.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why is leading people through change one of the most important and most overlooked leadership skills?
Research consistently shows that the human side of change is where most transformation efforts lose momentum: leaders often have a clear strategy in place while overlooking the emotional and psychological journey their teams are navigating. Change is the external event; transition is the internal experience each person moves through in response, and the two call for completely different leadership approaches. The Leading Through Change workshops at The Leadership Laboratory equip leaders and teams with the frameworks, communication strategies, and coaching skills to navigate both, and allow change initiatives to be implemented successfully.
Do organizations bring their teams to these workshops together, or are they designed for individual leaders?
These workshops are designed for groups within organizations, because change is a collective experience. An organization does not go through a restructure or a leadership transition one person at a time; it navigates that together, and how the group moves through it determines whether the change takes root. The Leadership Laboratory works with leadership teams, intact departments, and cross-functional groups to build the shared language, frameworks, and resilience that allow an organization to move through change as one.
At what point in an organizational change process would The Leadership Laboratory recommend this type of learning?
The Leadership Laboratory works with organizations at every stage of a change process: before, during, and after. Pre-change, workshops build the frameworks and emotional readiness teams need before disruption arrives. Mid-transition, Shift Happens: Innovation in Times of Change is specifically designed to help groups channel the energy of disruption toward creative problem-solving. Post-change, the focus shifts to consolidating new ways of working and building the resilience that prepares a team for what comes next.
How do these workshops help leaders guide their teams through change rather than just communicate it?
Coaching through Change + Transition gives leaders a repeatable methodology for change conversations: shifting from telling people what is happening to asking the questions that help their people find their own clarity and confidence during ambiguity. Resilience Through Change complements this by building the emotional and relational foundation teams need to move forward together, with trust intact, even when the path is uncertain. Participants practice real scenarios during each session and leave with specific strategies to apply at every phase of the transition.
What does resilience mean in a team context, and how do these workshops build it?
In a team context, resilience is the capacity to move forward through difficulty, together, with trust intact. Resilience Through Change builds this in groups through specific communication strategies, trust-building practices, and an honest look at the thinking traps that keep teams stuck in uncertainty, so leaders and their people can recognize those patterns and move through them with intention and clarity.