The Change Management Stack I: Personal Influence to Institutionalized Structure

Learners experience the coalition to structure arc in three training simulations that explore how to build influence, execute large-scale change initiatives, and lock in transformation through organizational redesign.

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Forio Stacks are a curated sequence of simulations that teach connected skills. 18 learning pathways span the disciplines that drive business today. Unlock the Stack from Forio's Ready-Made catalog that best aligns to your team's goals.

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Organizational Behavior

Leveraging Networks

Demonstrates how the properties of your network affect your ability to derive benefits from it, building recognition that networking creates reciprocal value rather than purely self-interested gain. Builds the foundational social capital that low-power change agents need before they can build coalitions or exercise influence. Learning Objectives: Social network analysis, influence without authority, reciprocity, coalition building.

Total Time: 20–30 min

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Change Management

Power and Influence

Move 19 stakeholders through the stages of awareness, interest, trial, and adoption while advancing the organization through mobilization, movement, and sustainment. Requires diagnosing power and urgency in context and applying the right sequence of credibility, political, technical, and cultural levers to overcome resistance.

Learning Objectives: Change management levers, stakeholder influence, urgency and power diagnosis, resistance management.

Total Time: 45–60 min

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Organizational Design

Evolving Structures

Apply the seven dimensions of organizational structure, such as formalization, span of control, and centralization, to redesign a company for a matrix structure. Locks in a change initiative by giving it the formal structure and systems needed to become embedded rather than fade after rollout.

Learning Objectives: Organizational structure, structural redesign, change institutionalization

Total Time: 60–90 min

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