The Change Management Stack II: Mindset, Crisis, and Strategy

Mindset shift to strategic monitoring. Four sims covering entrepreneurial thinking, high-urgency change tactics, crisis leadership, and balanced scorecard measurement.

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Managerial and Entrepreneurial Mindset

The Babson College Mindset Game

Contrasts managerial thinking, which is linear and planning-based, with entrepreneurial thinking, which is action-oriented and comfortable with uncertainty. Primes participants to accept the risk and iterative thinking that change initiatives demand, ahead of the resistance and cultural shift that follows.

Learning Objectives: Entrepreneurial mindset, risk tolerance, iterative thinking, change readiness.

Total Time: 90 min

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Change Management

Power and Influence

Explore the difference between proactive change in a low-urgency context and reactive change when urgency is high, determining the right timing and usage for 18 change levers. Builds insight into why resistance occurs and how to hold credibility under pressure when speed is non-negotiable.

Learning Objectives: Change levers, urgency-based tactics, resistance management, credibility under pressure.

Total Time: 45–60 min

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Leadership and Decision Making

Patient Zero

Guide a team through a sudden, high-stakes crisis using adaptive leadership techniques and ethical decision-making under limited information. Surfaces the intensity and communication breakdowns that come with reactive change, and how to manage fear and uncertainty in real time.

Learning Objectives: Adaptive leadership, crisis decision-making, ethical tradeoffs, team communication.

Total Time: 60 min

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Strategy

The Balanced Scorecard

Use a balanced scorecard and strategy map to define, implement, and measure strategy execution, selecting objectives and initiatives that reinforce a chosen strategy. Ensures change sticks by forcing a shift to metrics that monitor and reinforce the new direction, rather than reverting to old measures of success.

Learning Objectives: Balanced scorecard, strategy execution, performance measurement, change sustainment.

Total Time: 75 min

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