"Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly"

The Square Wheels® PowerPoint Toolkit on Managing and Leading Change is Sub-titled, "Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly," and creates a memorable and engaging look at the inevitability of the change process with the help of insightful cartoons as metaphors.

•  Contains a wealth of ideas and over 200 slides (consisting of factoids, one-liners, quotes, illustrations, worksheets and various exercises)

•  Creates interactive discussions focusing on how things need to work to become optimized and is intended to generate ownership and build teamwork for change.

This toolkit originally evolved from presentations that Scott Simmerman, creator of Square Wheels®, delivered to the US Census Bureau and to the US Senate Staff and from there a series of subsequent one-day workshops on facilitation skills.

One key part of this program is Scott's insightful metaphor of the caterpillar and butterfly called "Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly." This framework creates an easy to understand, engaging look at the inevitability of the change process. It links to some crucial learning points on leading change described, within, as "dis-unempowering" people as well as important lessons on perspective, leadership and creativity.

Shown on the bottom of this page are examples of slides included in this toolkit. In addition to the PowerPoint presentation and accompanying notes, you'll also receive a wide range of supporting materials. There are worksheets for participants, files covering general facilitation skills, facilitation tips and other tools. Basically, you're getting a Big Bundle of possibilities modifiable to your specific needs.