Change Management

Description

Managing change is a team effort, requiring business as usual and those instigating change to work together before, during and often long after the change has been implemented.

Our change management course is a 5 day course accredited by the APMG that enables delegates to understand and navigate the complexity of change management. Unlike other change management courses, delegates leave the course with a practical methodology and process for implementing change that can be implemented back in the workplace.

Objectives

• Understand the impact of change on the individual and to deal with the individual response to change with confidence
• Understand how teams operate, their dynamics and the likely challenges during periods of change
• Predict how teams will react to change and put in place effective strategies for managing issues
• Understand how to implement and embed change at an organisational level
• Understand the challenges in leading change and to have effective strategies for dealing with resistance

Audience

• Project and programme managers implementing business change in organisations
• Line managers who are sponsoring change within their departments
• HR and development managers who have to support change programmes within their organisations

Content

• Day 1 - The individual and change
  How people learn, factors affecting people's response to change, different approaches to change (behaviourist, cognitive, psychodynamic, humanistic), dealing with resistance to change
• Day 2 - The team and change
  Teams and change, measuring team effectiveness, team development models, team roles, personality and team dynamics, managing teams through change
• Day 3 - The organisation and change
  Organisational metaphors, assumptions about organisational change, models of organisational change, processes for implementing change
• Day 4 - Leading change
  The role of the leader in change, differentiating between leadership and management, leadership styles, effective change strategies for different styles
• Day 5 - Introduction to practical change tools and methodologies, examination
  Planning for change, structuring change programmes effectively, embedding and sustaining change, examination

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