The Hero’s Journey: Maximizing Resiliency in a Rapidly Changing World

Course Number:  095-JF
Recommended Duration:  2 Days

Intended Audience:  All Employees

Course Overview
This course explores organizational change, the individual human journey through change, and the characteristics of resiliency required for successfully navigating a rapidly changing world. Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey model sets a framework for understanding the transitional and transformative process we undergo as we move through a change experience. Successful navigation through the Hero’s Journey relies on our ability to focus and maximize individual resiliency. This course highlights elements of resiliency including: attitude, vision, creativity, imposing order upon chaos, and proactive choice-making. Strategies for tapping these abilities within ourselves, nurturing them in others, and maximizing them organizationally for effective change leadership will be explored.

Objectives/Topics
As a result of taking this course, you will learn to:

• Gain insight into the facets of change

• Distinguish between change and transition

• Explore and learn from past transitional journeys

• Identify your individual approach to change

• Understand and practice skills for maximizing resiliency in navigating change

• Distill master strategies for leading change

Prerequisites:  None