In today’s competitive business environment, change is not only constant, but also a necessity for viability, growth, and business success. Fundamental business initiatives like becoming more efficient, reducing costs, and increasing revenues all require some sort of change in the way a company does business. However, change is rarely easy. There are many barriers that can prevent an organization from adopting change and moving forward. Implementing and leading change requires specific skills, and that’s exactly what this series is all about. We’re going to teach you how to utilize several different techniques to successfully drive change. In this first course, we’ll talk about five common types of organizational changes and examples of barriers that keep companies from pursuing change.Kurt Lewin was an influential psychologist who is generally considered to be the founding father of change management. He developed one of the cornerstone models for understanding organizational change back in 1947. The model is still widely used today and is regarded as the “fundamental” or “classic” approach to managing change. In this course, we’ll go over this three-step model known as unfreeze, change, and refreeze. We’ll talk about how to apply these practices to an organizational change. We’ll discuss how to communicate a change initiative, implement it, and then institutionalize the change. We’ll also go over the change curve and leading through change.