Course description:

The 2-day accredited Change Management Practitioner workshop prepares participants to become reliable organizational change managers.

Based on the Effective Change Manager’s Handbook – aligned to the Institute’s Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK) – courses explore how change affects, and is affected by, individuals, teams, organizations and change leaders, equipping individuals with the knowledge, theories and techniques to:

• Unlock resistance to change
• Provide effective support and motivation to individuals and teams to embrace change
• Draw from a range of professional approaches to implement change smoothly and effectively
• Manage and inform key stakeholders throughout the change process
• Speed up the implementation of change initiatives.

Benefits

• Applying appropriate process frameworks to optimally plan and understand organizational change.
• A range of organization paradigms with which to understand, support and sustain organizational change processes.
• How to properly prepare for an organizational change initiative – such as building an effective change team and offering insights which enhance the team’s performance.
• Preparing people for organizational change.
• How to be motivational in ways that’s empathetic towards peoples’ roles and personalities.
• How to establish a clear framework of roles, skills and activities through which leaders can support and sustain the change process.

Target audience

• Aspiring or current managers of organizational change, transition or transformation.
• Those performing key roles in the design, development and delivery of of organizational change programmes, including: Change Project Managers, Transformation Managers, Senior Responsible Owners, Business Change Managers, Change Programme Managers, Operational Line Managers

Prerequisites

Change Management certification