Leading Culture Change
A video-based B2 practice pack following Simon Sinek's approach to culture change: learners retell his story, map early adopters in their own workplace, write an invitation, and role-play recruiting volunteers, handling an angry executive and chairing a best-practice call. Suits managers and change leaders.
Print-ready A4 PDF · teacher's notes and answer key included
What's inside
- Video listening
- Sequencing events
- Storytelling
- Matching quotes to groups
- Mapping a real workplace change
- Email rewriting
- Role-play
- Chairing a call role-play
- Discussion
- Written homework note
By the end, learners can
- Retell a workplace change story in sequence using narrative tenses
- Classify stakeholders by attitude to change and plan an approach for each
- Rewrite a mandatory announcement as an honest, voluntary invitation
- Ask for volunteers and respond to keen, practical and cynical listeners
- Defuse a senior colleague's complaint and agree a concrete next step
- Hedge an uncertain timeline in a written note to a manager
Skills: Listening · Speaking · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · Change leaders · HR · Project managers · Senior executives
Language practised: Retelling a story · Describing stakeholder attitudes · Inviting people to participate · Being honest about costs · Answering a sceptic politely · Welcoming a volunteer · Calming someone down · Reframing a complaint · Pushing back politely · Proposing a way forward · Agreeing next steps · Chairing and keeping a call on track · Hedging an uncertain timeline
Pairs with
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Teach the lesson first. The pack builds on the video your learner has just watched.
1 · Teach the lesson
Run the video lesson as usual.
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