Managing Transition: Clarifying and Creating New NESA Identity
Organizations and schools regularly face daunting shifts: They change leadership, create and implement new missions and strategic plans, adopt programs, institute new assessments, reorganize schedules, revise curriculum, reinvigorate instruction, or change personnel. Some organizations encounter multifaceted change, others singular. The challenges are similar.
William Bridges (1980) notes that it is never the change itself that is difficult. It is the psychological adjustments -- the natural processes of disorientation and reorientation that accompany change--that are challenging.
He describes three phases: endings, neutral zones, and new beginnings. For individuals to cope effectively with these stages, it's useful to know what they are and to have ideas on how to deal with them.
This seminar is based on the seminal work of William Bridges (1980) Making Sense of Life’s Changes.(New York. Perseus Publishing) and Bridges’ additional works regarding managing transitions.While the session will cite NESA’s transition, the thinking and processes will be extrapolated for any school engaged in change.
Participants will have. . .
- Understandings of change and Bridges’ three phases of transition
- Understandings of the importance of dialogue in clarifying identity during transitions
- Efficacy in reframing change and transitions as opportunities
- Identified temporary structures to support groups in transition
- Strategies and processes for supporting individuals and organizations in managing transitions
*Please bring your laptop/tablet to this workshop.
