Change Management Simulation: Power and Influence

Participants act as a change agent trying to win organizational support for an initiative. The simulation tracks how choices affect the awareness, interest, trial, and adoption of different stakeholders.

Players can choose interventions such as private meetings, presentations, pilot projects, coalition building, and the use of credible supporters. Each action consumes time and works differently depending on the player's formal authority and relationships.

Scenario variants place the change agent in different organizational positions, including roles with more or less formal authority. This changes which tactics are credible and demonstrates why a title alone does not guarantee adoption.

Performance depends on moving enough people through stages of commitment within the allotted period. The debrief examines not only the final adoption result but also the sequence and timing of the player's interventions.