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Implement a change

Once you start to see action it can often be the most gratifying stage of the process, but as you move into implementation it’s important that you continue to keep the community without limits framework in mind.

Key factors

  • Continue to be insight led to help you monitor impact, deliver the task elements of the change and ensure you continue to make progress as planned.
  • Don’t stop innovating and keep on top of communication to ensure you maintain engagement.
  • Ensure you are managing the people/emotional aspects of change to support staff.

Resources on this page:

Problem solving

  • Format: Workshop (online and in-person)
  • Time to complete: 4 hours
  • Phase of change: Implement

A two-part course providing a structured approach to problem-solving, from identifying the problem through root cause analysis to implementing a best-fit solution.

Learning outcomes

  • Describe the problem-solving process.
  • Use a range of problem-solving tools and techniques.
  • Apply the problem-solving process to real life problems.

Problem solving

Developing your resilience mindset

  • Format: Workshop (online)
  • Time to complete: 2 hours
  • Phase of change: Implement

An online workshop with group and individual activities to explore building your own personal resilience mindset, which can in turn build openness to change.

Learning outcomes

  • Distinguish between short and long term stressors.
  • Identify ways to counteract cognitive distortions.
  • Develop strategies to build on your resilience using Covey's Circle of Influence.

Developing your resilience mindset

Enhancing innovation through psychological safety

  • Format: Podcast
  • Time to listen: 38 minutes
  • Phase of change: Implement

A podcast exploring the concept of psychological safety and innovation. It explores the link between these concepts and discuss what helps and hinders innovation and creativity.

Learning outcomes

  • Explore how to redefine innovation beyond just generating new ideas
  • Explore the concept of continuous improvement
  • Understand practical strategies to encourage risk taking and curiosity
  • Enhancing innovation through psychological safety

Psychological safety

Flow theory of motivation

  • Format: Worksheet
  • Time to complete: 20 minutes
  • Phase of change: Implement

A tool to support you in finding the right balance of challenge for your team across the change. This is helpful when navigating change where individuals may need to learn new skills and work in different ways. 

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the relationship between the level of challenge, level of skills and the impact on wellbeing.
  • Explore how flow can help create conditions where individuals are motivated to embrace and contribute to the change.

Flow theory of motivation

Training and workshops

If you're in a leadership or management role, you may want to develop a range of skills that support you in your role, many of which are core to supporting change:

More resources

Browse all our resources by theme.

Phases of change

Access resources depending on where you are within the change process - plan, implement and embed.

Principles of change

We've developed five change principles to help enable successful change at York.

Project management

We’ve also got templates, tools and frameworks you can use to manage your project.