Change Management Foundation and Practitioner

Course Overview

This APM Group accredited course is based on the book by Esther Cameron and Mike Green, “Making Sense of Change Management”, supplemented by a Practitioner Handbook covering additional change management practitioner tools and techniques.

The course focuses on the effects of change in four key areas, individual, team and organisation and change leaders. It is an intense course that requires delegates to prepare thoroughly and involves evening study. The course culminates in the Foundation Examination on Day 3. For those wishing to continue on to take the Practitioner exam, Day 4 is a Practitioner Workshop followed by the Practitioner exam on the morning of Day 5. It is complementary to MSP, MoR and PRINCE2 but knowledge of these approaches is not a pre-requisite for attendance.

The course provides an informative and valuable pathway of understanding through the maze of principles, theories and guidance on organizational change management, and gives a solid platform for clear best practice thinking and the application of useful tools and techniques for achieving successful change.

Public courses: Public courses are designed to ensure sharing of individual’s experiences and best practice in change management.

Why should you use Aspire Europe?

The case for using Aspire Europe is compelling; we are all experienced change managers, we offer high quality courses in Change Management as well as the methods which underpin it – PRINCE2 and MSP.

The 3 day course is quite busy, and for individuals coming from a project, programme, operations or senior management background is a fascinating insight as well as putting in place essential foundations for the future

We will do everything in our power to help nurture you through to the standard required for the examination as well as ensuring that you have a good practical understanding of the impact change has on individuals, teams, organisations, and leaders, and how that understanding can support successful delivery of the outcomes and benefits required and expected.

COURSE CONTENT

Individual Change

• Learning Styles and Preferences
• Four Psychological Approaches to Change
• Helping Others to Change
• Personality and Change
• Transformative Change Model
• Resistance to Change
• Supporting Individuals through Change
• Listening and Giving Feedback Exercises

Team Change

• The Nature of a Team
• Team Effectiveness and Behaviours
• Stages of Team Development and Team Dynamics
• Team Leader’s Role
• Facilitation
• Action Learning
• Exercises

Organisational Change

• Research into change programmes – when change goes wrong and when change goes right
• The Strategic Change Process
• How Organisations Really Work –Morgan’s Metaphors
• Models and Approaches to Organisational Change
• Change Readiness
• Exercises

The Leadership of Change

• Leadership and Metaphor
• Leadership styles and Emotional Competencies
• Types of Leader
• Leadership for Different Phases of Change
• Leadership Roles in the Change Process
• The Importance of Stakeholder Engagement
• Exercises

Examinations

• Foundation examination
• Practitioner examination