Lead and Support Teams Through Change
Leading and supporting teams through change requires clarity, empathy, and adaptability. This page supports leaders at all levels as they guide their teams through transitions—big or small. Explore strategies, tools, and insights to help you communicate effectively, foster resilience, and create a positive environment where people feel supported and empowered.
This article applies to: Organizational Change Management
Inspire Your Team, Every Step of the Way
As a leader, you have the power to guide your team through change with clarity and compassion. Your influence can foster resilience, spark innovation, and help others find meaning in the process of transformation.
Whether your team is energized, uncertain, or somewhere in between, your leadership can turn challenge into momentum. This page offers tools, strategies, and resources to help you lead people through change at Cornell with confidence and care.
Understand Your Audience
Take a moment to understand the perspective of those you lead.
Watch: Why is Change so Hard? (4 min) NetID login | CWID login
A changing work situation can create a period of uncertainty while you adapt. In this course, identify the reasons why organizational change is difficult, as well as explore the positive results that can come out of it.
Watch: Six Stages of Reacting to Change (4 min) NetID login | CWID login
Your experience and emotional makeup affect how you react to change, whether in your private or working life. Discover how the six stages of emotional reaction can affect your response to change.
Watch: Effects of Change on Individuals (76 min)
Managing Change as a Leader
These online lessons are available for free through LinkedIn or Skillsoft. (You will need to log in to access the material.)
Watch: Explore the Role of Leadership in Change Management (4 min) NetID login | CWID login
What are some key leadership qualities necessary for driving successful change initiatives in the digital era?
Watch: Leaders as Enablers in Change Management (22 min) NetID login | CWID login
Learn about the role of leadership in digital change management initiatives, implementing change management frameworks, and aligning digital change initiatives with business objectives. Explore strategies for monitoring and adapting change management to ensure ongoing success.
Watch: Leading in Change (37 min)
You probably didn't get to plan for this change, and find yourself forced to acclimate quickly and lead decisively. This course covers what it takes to lead brilliantly during uncertain times. Focus on what will produce the biggest impact, and establish a sense of control while doing so.
Watch: Leading Your Team Through Change (21 min)
Change is hard, and anyone managing a team needs a proven playbook to help them rally their employees as they acclimate to new ideas and initiatives including how to address active resisters (and manage passive ones), take pulse checks, and hold people accountable for making change happen.
Watch: Managing Organizational Change for Managers (83 min)
People are more likely to listen and to follow a direct manager than anyone else at Cornell. Change really does start with you. This course is for managers and leaders that need to move a team of people through organizational change. Discover strategies to remove the discomfort of change, communicate change to different groups, reinforce skills, leverage performance management, and sustain planned change.
Watch: Change Management Tips for Leaders (16 min)
The best way to manage change is with simple and straightforward leadership. Learn the five best practices for how to guide your teams and organizations through change.
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