One-day facilitator kit

Leading Through Change with AQ

A complete one-day workshop on leading change, ready to deliver under your own name.

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Change and transition The neutral zone Change fatigue The A.C.E. model Unlearning Hope Psychological safety A 30, 60, 90 day plan Change and transition The neutral zone Change fatigue The A.C.E. model Unlearning Hope Psychological safety A 30, 60, 90 day plan
8Modules, 8:30 to 4:30, with a half-day version
53Slides, each with speaker notes
14Files in the member portal
$0Royalties. You set the fee and keep it
The capability of the era

Today's rate of change is the slowest it will ever be.

Change is exponential. People are not. What looks like resistance is often a nervous system out of capacity, and leaders who misread it push harder.

Adaptability is the leadership capability of the era. And it can be built.

The capability gap
CEOs who rank agility most critical66%
Employees who show high adaptability1 in 4

The capability gap, taught in module 1.

How change really works

Change has a date. Transition does not.

Change is external. Transition is what people go through inside it. Most change efforts manage the first and ignore the second, so the morning teaches both.

01

Endings

What people are losing. They need to hear what ends, and what stays.

02Most leaders rush it

The neutral zone

The old way is gone and the new one is not working yet. Resistance here is information: fear, fatigue, a missing why or missing support.

03

New beginnings

Where leaders usually already are, while their teams are still in endings.

William Bridges' transition model, taught in module 2 with a live transition map.

The day, module by module

How change works in the morning. How to adapt in the afternoon.

Every module reads the same way in the guide: an objective, talking points tied to slides, a timed activity and a leader note. Pick a module to see it.

Break · 15 min Lunch · 1 hour Break · 15 min
The operating system for change

Ability. Character. Environment.

The afternoon runs on the AQai A.C.E. model: three dimensions and fifteen sub-dimensions. Two leaders with identical ability can adapt very differently. Pick a dimension.

AQ and AQai are registered trademarks of Adaptai Ltd. The assessment is optional and sold separately.

What participants leave with

A plan for the change they are leading. Not a binder for the shelf.

30

First thirty days

Build one ability. Start one hope-building practice with the team.

60

By sixty days

Manage one character default under pressure. Run one psychological-safety move.

90

By ninety days

Reshape one environmental condition. Re-check adaptability and adjust.

Five worksheets for the weeks after

Four are tools for leading others through change. The fifth keeps every participant's plan alive.

01 · Team change readiness checkWith the whole team
The three predictors of readiness, rated anonymously, and one capacity-building move.
02 · Transition mapOne live change
Who is in endings, the neutral zone and new beginnings, and what each group needs to hear.
03 · Unlearning experimentTwo to four weeks
The unlearning audit turned into a small, deliberate experiment with a review.
04 · A.C.E. change planAny change you lead
Ability, Character and Environment applied to a real change, with a first move for each.
05 · Ninety-day adaptability trackerDays 30, 60 and 90
The plan from module 8, checked with a partner against what actually happened.
5.7×
The business case, slide 10

Change-ready firms see about 5.7 times greater shareholder return.

An agile workforce is about 25 percent more productive, and well-managed change brings about three times less stress-related absence. The guide tells you which figures to pick for your room.

What's inside

14 files. Five folders. One theme.

Eight files read from a single document theme. Set your colors, fonts and logo once and the deck, workbook, worksheets and feedback form all follow.

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Core workshop assets8 files
Facilitator guide, 18 pagesPDF
Slide deck, 53 slides with speaker notesPPTX
Participant workbookDOCX
Five worksheets for the weeks afterDOCX
Team change readiness checkTransition mapUnlearning experimentA.C.E. change planNinety-day adaptability tracker
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Welcome and getting started1 file
License and terms of usePDF
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Customization1 file
Rebranding guidePDF

Your colors, fonts and logo across all eight themed files, step by step.

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Pre-session logistics3 files
Invitation emailPDF
Room and platform setup checklistPDF
Tech check emailPDF
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Delivery and feedback1 file
Feedback form and scoring sheetDOCX
Learning outcomes

Adaptability is not a trait you have. It is a capability you build.

By the end of the day, participants can:

01

Explain why adaptability is the leadership capability of the era, and what not building it costs.

02

Distinguish change from transition, and lead people through the neutral zone.

03

Recognize change fatigue as a nervous-system state, and respond by building capacity.

04

Use the AQai A.C.E. model as a personal operating system for change.

05

Build resilience, hope and the discipline to unlearn, set the conditions for an adaptive team, and leave with a 30, 60, 90 day plan.

Who built it

Dr. Bill Dickinson

Executive coach, facilitator, author, and founder of C3 Leadership, LLC.

He built this day for leaders and intact teams living through change: a reorganization, a new system, a new strategy or a new leader.

The named ideas in the deck
Change and transition · William BridgesGrit · Angela DuckworthHope · C. R. SnyderPsychological safety · Amy EdmondsonThe A.C.E. model · AQai
Dr. Bill Dickinson
Founder, C3 Leadership
Who sits in the room

One team living through one change, or a mixed room of leaders.

Leaders of change

People leading a reorganization, a new system, a new strategy or a new leader.

Intact teams

A team living through the same change, who benefit from a shared language for it.

HR and learning teams

The people who design change and resilience programs for others.

Short on time?

A half-day version is mapped in the guide.

Six blocks, about three and a quarter hours, that keep the change model, the reframe of fatigue and A.C.E. as the operating system.

Delivery

In person, virtual or hybrid

In personVirtualHybrid
License, in plain language

One restriction. Everything else is permission.

The kit is licensed to the person who buys it, for any session they personally facilitate.

Unlimited sessions

Run it as often as you like, with no cap on sessions or participants.

Keep every fee

Charge your own clients and keep all of it. C3 takes no share.

Full white label

Put your brand on everything. Nothing has to credit C3.

Adapt the content

Full day, half day or a chapter session, shaped to your audience.

Print what the room needs

Any quantity, for the people attending your session.

The one restriction

You may not resell, redistribute or pass on the kit files themselves.

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Is the AQai assessment included?

No. AQ and AQai are registered trademarks of Adaptai Ltd, and the AQme and AQTeam assessments are purchased and administered separately. The workshop runs in full with the self-rating in the workbook.

Do I need AQai certification to run it?

No. You need it only to administer the AQai assessment. If you are certified, the guide adds a reference page on the fifteen sub-dimensions and a guide to the one-to-one debrief.

Do I need to be a certified facilitator?

No. The guide is written so any prepared facilitator can deliver the day: one page per module, with talking points tied to slides, timed activities and leader notes.

Can I rebrand it?

Yes. The deck, workbook, five worksheets and feedback form all read from one theme, so you set your colors, fonts and logo once and they carry across every file. Theme editing needs the desktop versions of PowerPoint and Word.

Can I run a shorter version?

Yes. The guide maps a half-day version in six blocks, and tells you which worksheets to send afterwards so the unlearning experiment and the A.C.E. change plan still reach people.

Can I run it virtually?

Yes. The room and platform setup checklist and the tech check email cover virtual and hybrid delivery.

Can my colleagues deliver it too?

This license covers the named person who buys it. An organization license covers your employees and any facilitator you contract to run a session for you. Email [email protected] to set one up.

Can I resell the kit?

No. Deliver the workshop as your own, but do not resell, redistribute or pass on the files. Handing a printed workbook to someone in your session is delivery, not redistribution.

How do I receive it?

Instant access to a member portal after purchase, where every file is ready to download.

Leading Through Change with AQ

Do not just weather change. Author it.

One day, 14 files, and a room that leaves with a plan for the change they are leading.

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