Video and Multimedia

This document provides you with video suggestions (along with the web links), for use throughout the change course. 

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Appreciative Inquiry - 4:31
Kathy Sabo, Toronto Western Hospital senior vice-president, discusses appreciative inquiry.

Force Field Analysis - 6.14 minutes
Very visual explanation of force field analysis - uses a simple example to show its application.

How to Leverage Social Media as a Change Agent - 10:00 minutes
HBR interview with Josh Bernoff, co-author of Groundswell, on how companies can change to embrace social media. Since this is often threatening to executives, start small, find a champion, line up other stakeholders, build coalitions, move quickly, learn from others (including other firms), and help people have a sense of what is coming, and measure your success. This video and the subsequent clips outlining the five objectives of Groundswell are focused on customers and sales/marketing related issues. However, the approach has relevance to organizational change when you consider how organizational change leaders could use the strategies to engage their “customers” in the development and delivery of organizational change.

It starts with one: Changing Individuals Changes Organisations – 26.25 minutes
Two professors from INSEAD (Hal Gregerson and Stewart Black) discuss the idea that you can’t change organizations if you don’t focus on change with the individuals first. Investigate three barriers: the failure to see, failure to move (developing the capacity of individuals to do something new) and failure to finish (following through with support until capacities are where they need to be – need champions at the front line as well as elsewhere in the organization as well as signposts that help people understand where they are in terms of implementing the change initiative). This includes helping leaders to understand the changes required within themselves.

Terms of Engagement – 3.32 minutes
Publisher Berrett-Koehler’s Change Authors Series - Focuses on four principles: widening the circle of involvement, connecting people to each other and to ideas, creating communities for action, and embracing democracy. BK Business Book by Richard H. Axelrod.

The Big Bang Theory - The Friendship Algorithm - 2:27
This Big Bang clip shows Sheldon developing an algorithm to better make relationship decisions. The underlying purpose is to gain influence with his rival to obtain more access to needed technology.

Oceans 11 – Plan - 3:02
This clip features George Clooney initiating the development the project plans for how to successfully rob a very secure Las Vegas casino.

Inception Planning phase - 4:06
The clip from the above movie depicts individuals developing their plans to bring about a difficult change by getting to develop an emotional approach that will move a particular individual to action. Included in their plan is the development of signals that will realign the awareness of those involved implementing the strategy, to ensure they do not lose their way while pursuing the strategy.

Karate Kid - Concepts of Project Management - 5:01
As the name suggests, the video clips for the above movie are used to demonstrate steps in the project management process, through to execution.