Change Ready: Guide Your Team Through This Change and the Next One
Cody Wright
Apple University | 20+ yrs Leadership
Every reaction to change is useful once you know what to do with it.
Everyone has different reactions to change. Conventional wisdom says to reward the early adopters and treat resistance as a liability. The best leaders of change don't simply drive everyone to acceptance. They identify and empathize with common responses to change, maximizing the benefits of each while minimizing the drawbacks.
Change Ready gives you a way to read what each person is doing, understand what's driving it, and decide what support will actually help. You'll be ready for change now and later, big or small, whether it's yours or you inherited it.
How It Works
☑️ Real situations. Bring a change you're leading right now and work on it the whole way through.
☑️ Everyone participates. Small group discussion and hands-on activities on a shared board, start to finish.
☑️ Practical application. You leave with a plan for the actual people on your team, not a generic playbook.
What you’ll learn
Rethink your role in change and learn practical tools to read reactions, uncover what's driving them, and get everyone contributing.
Move away from driving everyone toward acceptance as the goal
Recognize what different reactions are actually telling you
Understand your own default reaction and how it shapes your actions
Identify the benefit each response brings, including the ones that slow you down
See the drawbacks that come with enthusiasm as well as with resistance
Check your own cognitive bias about which reactions are the "good" ones
Diagnose what's actually driving resistance, not just what was said out loud
Tell the difference between disagreement about details and conflict over values
Know where to start when you can't tell what the real problem is
Match your response to what's genuinely in the way for that person
Provide what someone needs to move instead of pushing harder
Know when to slow someone down rather than clear their path
Assess each person involved in the change you're leading right now
Decide what specific support each of them needs from you
Get feedback on your plan from other managers working through the similar situations
Workshop agenda
Identify your change challenge
Bring a current, recent, or upcoming change you’re guiding your team through. You’ll map how you and your team feel about it, how far it reaches, and the biggest challenge it’s handed you.
Assess how your team feels about the change
Look at the reactions showing up on your team, including your own. See why the usual advice to move everyone toward acceptance works against you.
Identify what each reaction brings, and what it costs
Work through the benefits and drawbacks of each reaction with your group. Find the value in the person slowing you down, and the risk in the one racing ahead.
Diagnose what's really in the way
Resistance usually has a reason behind it that nobody said out loud. Learn to tell a disagreement about details from a conflict over values, and where to start.
Match your support to the actual barrier
Different people need different things to move. Work out what to offer based on where someone is stuck, and when slowing someone down beats clearing their path.
Build a plan
Assess everyone involved in your change, decide what each person needs from you, and get feedback on the plan from other managers before you leave.
Learn directly from Cody
Cody Wright
Former Apple University | Leadership, L&D, and CX leader | 20+ years experience
Who this workshop is for
In The Middle of a Change
You're guiding your team through something specific right now. You want something you can use in the coming weeks.
Facing Change After Change
Your organization keeps shifting and your team is fatigued. You want people engaged, not waiting it out.
Leading Change at Scale
You're responsible for a change that reaches well beyond the team you work with every day.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Cody Wright in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Hands-On interaction
Built around small group discussion and shared-board activity, applied to a change you're managing.
Cohort support
Learn alongside a small cohort of peers facing similar change challenges.
Behavior change, not just knowledge
Designed to create lasting changes in how you manage change, not just new ideas to think about.
Your board, afterward
You get the completed Miro board after the session, including everything you and your cohort captured. Frameworks, your notes, and your plan, all in one place.
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