Leading Change Training

This is the fourth book in the new ASTD Trainer's WorkShop Series. Leading Change Training is a practical, ready-to-use workbook written for training professionals, organizational development practitioners, change agents, chief executive officers, and others who are seeking to create solid change programs within their organizations. Leading change involves more than simply reducing resistance; it involves creating awareness of the challenges and responsibilities that each person (no matter his or her level in the organization) faces as a change initiative goes forward. Users of this book will be able to quickly create half-day, full-day, and multi-day workshops that integrate the change leadership models and theories in this book into solid training programs for agents of change, executives, leaders, managers, and supervisors as well as staff members who are often most affected by the change.

About the Authors

Jeffrey and Linda Russell are the founders and co-directors of Russell Consulting, Inc., headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. For more than 15 years Jeff and Linda have provided consulting and training services in such areas as leadership, strategic thinking and planning, change implementation, employee quality of worklife surveys, organizational development, performance coaching, and performance management. Their diverse list of clients includes Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, social or nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.

Jeff has a bachelor of arts degree in humanism and cultural change and a master of arts in industrial relations, both from the University of Wisconsin. He serves as an ad hoc faculty member for the University of Wisconsin, teaching for the Small Business Development Center, the Wisconsin Certified Public Manager Program, and a number of other certification programs with the University of Wisconsin campuses. Jeff is a frequent presenter at local, state, regional, and international conferences.

Linda has a bachelor of arts degree in social work and completed graduate work in rehabilitation counseling. She specializes in designing and implementing quality of worklife surveys and in facilitating team and organizational development interventions.

Jeff and Linda have written three other books, including Managing Change (1998), and publish a journal of tips for leading organizations.