What is change management?
Change management is a set of principles and practices that enables a change of mindset, behaviours and capabilities that ‘future proof’ an organization by ensuring continuous value is delivered to its stakeholders.
What is change management training?
Change management training empowers individuals and organisations on how to effectively define, plan, lead, and sustain change initiatives.
Why should individuals and organizations invest in change management training?
A 2004 survey by Price Waterhouse Coopers concluded:
“…The majority of the best performing and most mature organisations always or frequently apply change management to their projects.”
As the rate of change in business continues to accelerate, the ability to change quickly and effectively with committed and capable people is a critical strategic advantage. An organization with organizational change management training will have empowered people who are skilled to assess the impacts of change, and able to plan and implement change effectively. An organization that is then able to quickly adapt to external factors and continuously improve.
What skills will I gain from change management training?
Participants gain practical skills in: defining change, assessing the change environment, stakeholder engagement, planning change, resistance management, sustaining and evaluating change and its outcomes.
The training also covers popular change management frameworks and techniques including: Bridges – Managing human transition, force field analysis, business process mapping, The Change Pathway, Agile change practices, dealing with resistance, stakeholder engagement.
What are the key learning outcomes of the change management Foundations training?
By the completion of the Leading Change Foundations program, participants will be able to:
- Recognise common change pitfalls and assess organisational readiness for change
- Identify key change roles and the attributes of high performing change teams
- Analyse how organisational context shapes change strategies and outcomes
- Understand the influence of human dynamics on change success
- Apply proven techniques to assess and map the impacts of
- Change
- Evaluate the limitations of widely used change models and
- frameworks
- Design and adapt change plans to suit diverse organisational environments
- Select and apply meaningful metrics to track change progress and success
Is change management training suitable for beginners?
Yes. Whether your leading a change team or a key contributor to a change initiative, the Leading Change Foundations course is designed for both beginners and experienced professionals. With a blend of introductory content and exercises to build real-world experience for complex change initiatives, this program is designed for participants of all experience levels.
Why is change management training important?
Change management training develops individual knowledge and skills supporting an uplift of corporate capability to effectively plan, lead, and sustain change initiatives. It is important as implementation of change often carries high risk, can be complex and adoption can be adversely impacted by resistance. Change management training addresses these attributes and can improve the success rates of local, transitional and transformational change initiatives.
