WALLBREAKERS™

LEADING CHANGE
Wallbreakers™ is a tool used to train implementation of organizational change. It is about transforming resistance to change into understanding and acceptance

CHANGE GENERATES RESISTANCE
Most large change processes involve frustration, resistance, and reduced productivity. This is a natural part of all change processes. Whether a change process is off to a successful start, implementation, and anchoring depends on how well managers deal with the human dimension of the change processes.

PRACTISING CHANGE LEADERSHIP
Wallbreakers is a captivating simulation of a change processes, which offers managers a safe forum in which they can try out difficult leadership skills. Wallbreakers focuses on how to motivate employees to take part in the desired change, and how different phases of change processes require different forms of leadership.

THE TOOL
Wallbreakers uses game dynamics and is build around a specific business case. Participants work in groups of three to six. Each group has to navigate a team of fictitious employees through a change process in three phases. The groups work on change intensity, prioritizing of resources, and handling various personality types and individual needs among employees.

THEORY
Wallbreakers is based on a series of recognized theories on personality types, management, organizational culture, and change processes, including MBTI/JTI, Edgar Schein, John Kotter, Rick Maurer, and Daniel Goleman.  

REFERENCES
Several thousand managers have already played Wallbreakers. Arla Foods, CSC, SimCorp, The Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Copenhagen Business School and Danfoss have used Wallbreakers when working with change management.

"Wallbreakers has worked as a perfect frame for understanding the dynamics at stake in a change process, and of the importance of a management that knows how to deal with the human dimension."

- Torben Petersen, Senior HR-consultant, Danfoss Group Global.