Change Management Foundation. Training courses held in London and Birmingham in the West Midlands. Select the course dates tab to see course dates or select a category link above to see more course and location options.
Change Management Foundation
The Change Management Foundation course will focus on equipping delegates with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges of Change Management, why change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done in order to overcome resistance to change. The course is highly intense with extensive delegate participation and opportunities to apply Change Management models, tools and techniques to a variety of scenarios. We provide pre-course materials and activities to enable delegates to prepare for the course so that they can take full advantage of the trainer’s knowledge and guidance. The successful completion of the Foundation exam will give the delegate a recognised APMG qualification.
Learning Objectives
- Define what change means in a work environment and examine it’s impact on individuals, teams and the organisation as a whole
- Understand the impact of change on individual and team productivity, including an overview of the learning cycle, learning styles and personality types
- Explore team dynamics, the criteria for effective teams and the effect change initiatives can have on team productivity
- Analyse how different organisation types are affected by change
- Consider various models of organisational change and how best to apply them to your situation
- Investigate the role of the leader, how to manage resistance to change
Course Content
Individual Change
- Learning what happens when people experience change
- Identifying what factors affect people’s response to change
- Being aware of how personality affects a person’s relationship with change
- Recognising how & why people resist to change
Team Change
- Focusing on improving team effectiveness
- Understanding how teams change and develop
- Learning about leadership issues in team change
- How team change impacts organisational change
Organisational Change
- Identifying key metaphors of organisational change and how they link to Change Management
- Recognising your own assumptions about how organisational change works
- Learning and critically evaluating different models of organisational change
- Beginning to build an integrated model of the organisational change process
Leadership and Change
- Understanding the relationship between leadership style and change
- Understanding the effects of different leadership styles on the change process
- Learning about the different leadership roles in the change process
- Developing a personal action plan to respond to the demands of leading change
The Course Will Benefit
- Managers, possibly in a large organisation or Consultancy, with a significant involvement in change issues
- Consultants wishing to further develop their Consulting capability
- Programme Managers who have to influence people across Companies, Business Units or Global Structures
- Project Managers facing the added challenge of not having direct management responsibility for the people affected by their changes
Course Structure
- Suggested 5-10 hours of pre-course reading
- 3-day course including 1-hour, multiple-choice, closed-book exam on the third day
- Course runs 9am – 5:30pm with a break for lunch. Delegates are encouraged to complete 1-2 hours of evening work
- Delegates are encouraged to network and share their experiences
We Provide the Following Essentials
- Change Management pre-course workbook
- Access to our online Knowledge Centre providing pre-course support
- Accompanying textbook - Making Sense of Change Management 2nd Edition
- Comprehensive coursework useful as a reference guide when returning to the office
Follow On Courses
- Change Management Practitioner
- PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner
- Skills courses (Leadership, Communication, Team Management, Negotiating and Influencing)