Change Management Programme with Foundation
Dealing with change and more importantly, the impact of change is a high priority for all organizations. This workshop covers the key organisational change models and approaches for implementing change. People play a key role in the success (or failure) of implementing change. Consequently it is important to understand how to engage them with the benefits of change and also understand what resistance they may have to making the changes.
Who is it for?
This programme is designed to provide the Change Management capability for those people that will be involved in managing change projects that will impact people.
- This would include those acting as Project Managers and the Department managers / Team leaders that will be impacted by the changes
Learning Outcomes
After completing the programme participants will;
- Have completed a thorough review of the most important literature in organisational change management.
- Understand the key Organisational Change Management models and approaches for implementing change.
- Be able to assess Change readiness within an organisation.
- Be able to apply the most appropriate change approach to use depending on the scenario.
- Understand the sources of resistance when implementing change and how to manage them
- Be able to manage stakeholder engagement and implement a communications strategy for the change initiative.
Programme Content
- Module 1 – Change and the Organisation
- Understanding the nature, style and scale of change
- Incremental or transformational
- Proactive or reactive, collaborative or coercive
- Understanding the change models available to manage change
- Planned and emergent change approaches
- Organisational Culture
- Understanding organizational culture and applying the most relevant implementation approach for the change initiative
- Be able to apply within a particular scenario the models/tools and approaches relating to organizational change;
- Understanding organizational culture and applying the most relevant implementation approach for the change initiative
- Understanding when and how to use a ‘planned change’ and an ‘emergent change’ approach.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities required that a change manager needs to ensure are resourced effectively.
- Module 2 – How Individuals and Teams Respond to Change Workshop
- Understanding Change Readiness within the organisation
- Identifying and understanding the sources of resistance to change
- Understanding how individuals respond to change;
- Understand how to assess team effectiveness and work with individuals/teams to improve motivation and performance
- Be able to apply within a particular scenario the models/tools and approaches relating to individual change
- Factors likely to affect the motivation of individuals engaged in change and how to encourage their involvement in change.
- Individual responses to a change situation approaches to maximise engagement.
- Module 3 – Stakeholder Engagement and Change Implementation Workshop
- Understand the principles, approaches and models relating to communication and stakeholder engagement
- Understand how to use stakeholder engagement during the change initiative
- Communicating and engaging stakeholders
- The ADKAR model
- Managing the Change Project Implementation
- Phases of Change
- Be able to apply within a particular scenario the models/tools and approaches relating to communication and stakeholder engagement;
- Understand how to implement a communications strategy for the change initiative.
- Understand how to assess the impact of change, likely cause of resistance and identify actions to address them.
Accreditation
There are two accreditation options with this programme;
- APMG Change Management Foundation
- To prepare for the Foundation exam we will log you onto the APMG Foundation preparation module which covers the exact syllabus of the Foundation exam and includes a database of past Foundation exam questions.
- 12 month licence access
- APMG Foundation exam cost
- Foundation exam – Multiple choice 40 min duration
- Four sections, total of 50 questions
- 25 marks required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
- We will be running a Practitioner workshop and exam next year for those that want to progress to the Practitioner level.
- Chartered Management Institute Level 7 Award
- This course is one of 6 modules delivered within the Chartered Management Institute Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership. This is a Masters level accreditation for aspiring senior managers that want to develop their strategic management and leadership capability to lead business improvements within their organisations or departments.
- After completing this course you have the option of achieving the CMI L7 accreditation for the Implementing Organisational Change Strategies Module.