20 Change Exercises for Group Workshops

by David Williams

This Kindle mini-book features exercises and workshop activities that are especially useful for people who feel threatened by change. They address the tendency we have to duck down, hoping that things will pass over, rather than grasping the opportunities that change might bring. They teach us how to recognize when we are creating boxes that limit our thinking and our attitude to change. Help participants learn how to transform change from something that happens to them (usually with grim consequences) to a force they can use positively to influence their own destiny and the future of their organizations. All the activities have been personally tried and tested by the author over many years of working with a variety of sizes and types of group. Preparation is minimal – many of these exercises require only the space to work in; others are easily prepared in advance by following the guidance given here.

54 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 4, 2011

About the author

In order, I am a family man, an English northerner, and a freelance writer for more years than I care to remember, first as a playwright, mainly for BBC radio and a variety of education publishers, latterly as a novelist and short story writer. More recently, I have become a games inventor. My company, Creating Games, has licensed over a dozen titles in both English and foreign language editions.

2025 sees the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway. As part of the celebrations, my novel 'Mr Stephenson's Regret' is wearing new clothes in a Stephenson 200 Anniversary edition, and I have written a full-length stage play, 'Geordie' which is to be premiered by Cliffe Theatre in Stockton in the autumn of 2025

Reviews

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

This short volume offers exercises to help project managers, change agents, and other supervisory personnel manage change in their organizations. As an individual having responsibility for significant changes in government, education, private and public industry entities, I can verify that the exercises presented here can be effectively used to help people face change with less fear and more hope. I have successfully used some of the exercises myself, and there are some exercises I wish I had found much earlier.

The exercises are presented concisely with suggestions concerning which audiences would most benefit, examples to provide to workshop participants, and what to expect when the exercise is concluded. Most exercises stand alone, while some can be bound together, with the work product from one exercise providing the input for the next. Unlike many Kindle books, the author has thoughtfully provided simple illustrations that translate well into the electronic format.

The volume can be read in one session, but change managers will want to keep it close at hand as a reference.