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Change Readiness

Equip yourself and your team with the skills to navigate the changes and challenges facing enterprises today.

Online, Instructor-Led

16Hours total
8Live sessions
15Weeks
About this course

Change touches every conversation, relationship, and commitment in an organization — readiness is what separates change that sticks from change that stalls.

When leading a change program, miscommunication, unfulfilled deliverables, and active resistance are to be expected. This course offers a comprehensive approach to address these obstacles head-on.

At Taligens, we employ a linguistic and ontological approach to revolutionize work processes, reshape the ways individuals and organizations show up within professional environments, and drive value creation through personal commitment.

You will enhance your ability to navigate change, improve communication, and cultivate essential moods such as resolution, trust, and care — developing the skills to foster collaborative relationships and lead through change.

What You'll Learn

Navigate Change with Confidence

Build the skills to move through organizational change and the challenges enterprises face today.

Improve How You Communicate

Address miscommunication and unfulfilled deliverables by coordinating clearly with the people around you.

Cultivate Trust, Resolution, and Care

Foster the moods and collaborative relationships that let you lead others through change.

Your Instructors

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Sarah Cove

Managing Director, The Taligens Group

Sarah brings over 20 years of experience implementing business transformation and culture change programs across the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. With a passion for creating purpose-driven environments centered in trust and focused on customers, Sarah has worked across multiple industries including energy, utilities, technology, finance, retail, agriculture, and manufacturing.

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Ricardo Monardez

Managing Director, The Taligens Group

With over 30 years of experience across both industry and consulting, Ricardo brings a rare blend of strategic insight and practical know-how to his work. A longtime practitioner of Ontological Design and Commitment-based Management, he has led transformative change efforts for organizations across sectors and continents. From Fortune 500 companies to local nonprofits, his approach helps leaders navigate complexity, align culture with strategy, and build the conversations that make change stick.

Course Lessons

Session 01 — Introduction and Learning to Learn

In this module, you'll develop a new framework for understanding change. Explore the concept of 'learning to learn' as the foundational prerequisite to navigate change effectively, and delve into the common obstacles that hinder our ability to learn.

Session 02 — Assessments and Assertions

Gain insight into the critical role that our assessments and assertions play in our interpretation of events and how they are key to making informed decisions.

Session 03 — Requests and Promises

Uncover the pivotal role that requests and promises play in generating action through effective coordination and collaboration. Learn to craft requests that are clear, actionable, and respectful, while also understanding the nuances of managing, adjusting and fulfilling promises with integrity and accountability.

Session 04 — Listening, Moods and Emotions

Discover the intricate relationship between biology, language, history, and our moods and emotions, and how they influence our listening. Explore how these factors interact to shape our understanding to improve our ability to listen effectively and act accordingly.

Session 05 — Cultivating Productive Moods

Discover strategies for managing challenging emotions and turning them into opportunities for growth. Learn to foster positive moods that enhance creativity, resilience, and motivation.

Session 06 — Declarations

Understand the importance of declarations in generating effective action. Gain insights into what makes an effective declaration, when and how to successfully make them, and what they are predicated upon.

Session 07 — Offers and Leadership

Explore how offers are key in generating action, trust and commitment across an organization. Discover how leadership is a product of effective offers and the empowering effect that these have within a team and relationships.

Session 08 — Managing Change

In our final module, we bring together the culmination of our exploration into change readiness and how it's a crucial part of successful change management.

Enroll

Ready to lead through change?

Equip yourself and your team with the skills to navigate whatever change comes next.