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How To Grow Professionally, During Organizational Change

This course thoroughly describes what organizational agility and individual agility looks like.

Created byLepora Flournoy
4.5
(20 reviews)
IntermediateUpdated Jun 23, 2025
How To Grow Professionally, During Organizational Change

What You'll Learn

check_circleUnderstand the concepts of organizational and individual agility and their key characteristics.
check_circleDistinguish between change and agility, and their unique impacts on organizational success.
check_circleIdentify the essential components required for an organization to be truly agile.
check_circleLearn best practices for Agile Leadership and fostering a responsive organizational culture.

About This Course

Organizational change is a constant in today’s dynamic world, often bringing uncertainty and stress. This course, "How To Grow Professionally, During Organizational Change," is meticulously designed to equip you with the essential behavioral traits and strategic insights to not just adapt but thrive amidst transformation. Learn to transform potential mayhem into opportunities for growth and effective contribution.

Through this program, you will gain a profound understanding of:

  • The Nature of Change and Agility: Explore core definitions of change and agility, delving into Next Gen People’s model of agility, which emphasizes continuous learning, responsiveness, timeliness, strength, flexibility, and alertness. Understand how to embrace change as an inevitable and constant force, distinguishing between intentional and unintentional shifts, and choose to be a proactive participant rather than a victim.
  • Navigating Diverse Change Adoption Styles: Identify and leverage the five distinct change adoption styles – Innovator, Early Adopter, Pragmatist, Skeptic, and Traditionalist. Discover how to work effectively with each style within your team and organization, turning varied responses into collective strengths.
  • Mastering the Stages of Change: Apply the widely recognized ADKAR model (Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement) to systematically prepare for, implement, and sustain change. Learn how to foster genuine desire and ensure practical ability for successful transitions.
  • Cultivating Individual and Organizational Agility: Develop personal strategies for mastering individual change, focusing on intention, action, and contingency planning. Understand the seven steps for preparing your organization for change, including assessing its maturity level using the Prosci model, and recognize why agility is paramount for individual career survival and growth.
  • Implementing Best Practices for Agile Environments: Gain insights into creating agile alignment across organizational structure, people, technology, and processes. Emphasize the critical role of sufficient training, an open social system, and embracing diverse solutions for sustained organizational effectiveness.

By the end of this course, you will possess the mindset and toolkit to confidently navigate organizational shifts, enhance your professional resilience, and proactively shape your career trajectory during times of transformation.

Your Instructor

Lepora Flournoy
Lepora Flournoy

CEO of Nextgen People, Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching and Talent Management Services

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Dr. Lepora is CEO of Nextgen People, a Talent Management Services Company, and an Executive Coach with over 25 years of experience and more than 20 years working directly with the C-Suite to improve business results. Dr. Lepora provides a success-oriented approach for clients. Although she is challenging, she is supportive and quickly inspires trust from her clients. Her coaching work is enhanced by her business and organization experience which includes leadership positions in Airlines and Aviation, Financial Services, Staffing, and Consulting. Her work includes a wide range of industries. Clients have included Delta Air Lines, AT&T, Capitol Blue Cross/ Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Randstad, among others. She has worked with leaders across the globe including Europe, Latin and South America. Dr. Lepora’s style is holistic but targeted. She appreciates the importance of specificity in goals yet understands the impact of interdependent factors. She challenges high-achieving leaders to be even greater. She helps them to understand how their personal and professional skills and behaviors positively or negatively impact their organization’s strategic objectives. Her academic education includes Management, Organization Behavior, and Psychology. Further training and certifications include Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) Leadership and Benchmarking Assessments, Strengths Finders, DISC Assessment, Prosci Change Management, Situational Leadership, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt, CSM, PMP Dr. Lepora is also a Keynote Speaker, Facilitator, Author, reads French, speaks basic French and is currently learning Spanish.

Credit Information

Do these courses count toward my professional development requirements?

This portal is provided as a training and development resource for City of Markham employees. Every course is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, is quantifiable in hours, and is verifiable — you receive a documented certificate of completion for every course you finish, stored on LearnFormula indefinitely.

If you hold a professional designation (for example in engineering, accounting, human resources, or law), courses may be counted as professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities toward your continuing professional development. Individual practitioners are responsible for confirming that an activity meets the requirements of their professional body. For questions about the City of Markham's training and development policies, please speak with your people leader or Human Resources.

What Students Are Saying

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