Change Management Foundation & Practitioner Weekend Course
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Change Management Foundation & Practitioner Weekend Course. 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 and Practitioner Weekend Course

The Change Management Foundation and Practitioner course will focus on equipping the delegate 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. The successful completion of the Foundation and Practitioner Exam will give the delegate a recognised APMG qualification. This course lays a firm grounding for the delegate to apply Change Management approaches and techniques in the workplace. We provide pre-course materials and activities to enable delegates to prepare themselves for the course so that they can take full advantage of the trainer’s knowledge and guidance.

Learning Objectives 
- Define what change means in a work environment and examine its 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 a project scenario 
- Investigate the role of the leader, how to manage resistance to change 
- Answer any questions or concerns delegates may have about applying Change Management approaches and techniques to the management of change within their organisation 
- Prepare for the Foundation and Practitioner exams

Course Content
Individual Change 
- Learning what happens when individuals experience change 
- Identifying what factors affect an individual’s response to change 
- Being aware of how personality affects an individual’s relationship with change 
- Recognising how & why individuals resist change 
- Focussing on coaching individuals through change 
- How to employ active listening and feedback tools and techniques

Team Change 
- Focusing on improving team effectiveness 
- Understanding how teams change and develop 
- Learning about leadership issues in team change, with focus on the team leader’s role 
- How team change impacts organisational change 
- Learning the skill of facilitation and the process of action learning

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 
- Understanding the importance and process of Stakeholder Engagement

The Course Will Benefit 
- All managers involved in change or business transformation 
- Change agents and change champions throughout the organisation 
- Consultants wishing to further develop their consulting capability 
- Programme and Project Managers responsible for coordinating and implementing change

Course Structure 
- Suggested 15 hours of pre-course preparation 
- 5-day course 
- 1-hour multiple choice, closed book Foundation exam on the third day, 3 hour open book Practitioner exam on the fifth day 
- Delegates are encouraged to complete 1-2 hours of evening worke, and managing its impact on people

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 
- Change Management Practitioner Handbook 
- Comprehensive coursework useful as a reference guide when returning to the office

Follow On Courses 
- PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner 
- MSP® Foundation, Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner 
- Skills courses (Leadership, Communication, Team Management, Negotiating and Influencing )
 
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Duration5 days
 
£1,625
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