Change Management

Organisations need to change in order to and adapt to stay competitive and productive

Managing change is a critical skill to ensure that the change is delivered with the minimum of unplanned impact on the organisation

New Change Management Qualification

APM Group have launched the new accredited "Principles of Change Management" certification and training course based on the book "Making Sense of Change Management".

The Change Management training course will help you to

• Understand change management
• Appreciate the impact it has on your organisation
• Understand your role in the successful implementation of organisational change

What are the benefits - For individuals?

• Develop your understanding of the subject
• Identify the negative impacts that change initiatives can have
• Learn how to address these in order to achieve the full benefits of change

What are the benefits - For Organisations?

• Demonstrates that an individual has a good understanding of change, its benefits and its impact on various groups within the organisation
• Provides independent validation of a manager’s ability to lead a change programme

Who is this Programme designed for?

• Anyone needing change management skills, seeking to lead people through change
• Business champions, business change managers, programme directors, programme managers, project managers, operational leaders, leaders generally

Eligibility Criteria?

None

APMG Change Management Courses & Qualifications

Principles of Change Management (4 day training course)

The Principles of Change Management course consists of four one-day workshops, building on change management knowledge and practices and focusing particularly on the effects of change in four key areas – individuals, teams, organisations and change leaders.

1. Individual Change

This module gives you the foundation in what happens in each of us when we are confronted with doing something new, looking at human reactions from a number of different perspectives, allowing you to understand and deal with some apparently negative reactions including:-

• How do people learn? And why does their performance drop? Does everybody learn the same way?
• How does someone become competent at something new?
• What factors influence everybody's reaction to change?
• How does your personality affect how you deal with change?
• Why do people resist change?
• What are the proven strategies for taking someone through a change?

2. Team Change

Building on the first module, Team Change takes you through the vital role of the team including:-

• Why are teams important during change?
• What is a team? Are there different types of team?
• What would an effective team look like?
• How does the team itself change?
• How do you lead a team?
• What are the common types of team member?
• Which types of team effect the most change?

3. Organisational Change

In this workshop you will learn more about how large groups of individuals go through change together including:

• How does organisational change work?
• What type of management action leads to successful organisational change?
• What are the basic ways of usefully viewing and talking about organisations? How do these views affect our beliefs about change?
• What are the most widely used models of organisational change?
• What is the difference between planned, organic and emergent change, and why do these differences matter?

4. Leading Change

In this final workshop you will consider change from a leader's perspective:

• What sort of leader are you?
• What is the difference between management and leadership?
• How do leaders engage with the different ways of viewing and talking about organisations? (This is introduced in the Organisational Change module.)
• What are the different types of leader? What effects does each type have?

Examination

At the end of this APM Group-approved curriculum there is an optional one hour examination in Change Management