Change Management

• Provide a practical and clear step by step method for successfully introducing and managing change
• Understand the change management process
• Understand and apply practical models that make sense of change and how it occurs in order to improve success rates
• Apply situation awareness and flexibility to guide change towards your goals
• Understand processes for introducing incremental and revolutionary change
• Identify key factors that drive organisational change
• Recognise the key role that people play in making change management programmes successful
• Develop effective communication strategies to over come resistance to change
• Plan and execute successful change management programmes using a structured framework
• Develop best practice approach to delivering change
• Minimise risks and maximise benefits of change
• Gain a strong awareness of the challenges that may be faced when implementing a change management programme and strategies to deal with them

The difference between effective and ineffective organisations can be characterised by their ability to cope with change.

Change is continuous in today's organisations, if not due to organisational initiatives then because of the rapid rate of change in technology and society in general. Change has the potential to develop or paralyse an organisation depending on how it's deal with. Organisations that successfully introduce, manage and adapt to change dramatically outperform those that do not.

Change management is the process of developing solutions to cope with the need to adapt to change. The complex and intensive process of planning and implementing change management programmes is usually left to managers who may not be fully aware of the tools and techniques they will need to perform the task, or the potential impact that their work will have on people or the organisation.

This course will provide you with all the skills and techniques you need to successfully plan, develop, implement and evaluate structured change management programmes. You will also learn about key challenges that you will face when performing such processes. These include dealing with change resistance, setting success indicators and taking corrective action when signs of change management failure are found.

Your instructor will have a wealth of experience of change programmes, large and small, across a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sectors and will be able to continuously relate the course material back to real world examples.

Our four day comprehensive change management course will develop your skills to enable you to plan, develop, implement and evaluate structured change management programmes.

There are numerous exercises and workshops to enable you to gain valuable practical experience to master the techniques and tools for performing change management. All exercises and workshops are conducted, supported and debriefed by your instructor, who has extensive experience of change management programmes.

• Identifying the characteristics of change
• Developing your change 'vision'
• Implementing your change 'vision' through a practical framework
• Reviewing a change plan against our change framework, identifying deficiencies and risks, and producing a better plan
• Supporting change by effective leadership and motivational techniques
• Understanding and overcoming change resistance
• Developing a communication plan for change
• Identifying when change fails and taking corrective action

This course is suitable for anyone that requires comprehensive skills in developing and executing change management programmes successfully.

There are no pre-requisites for this course.