Managing Change

Course objectives:
On completion of this programme you will be able to:
-Understand the reason for change
-Understand the impact of change on organisations and people
-Minimise the stress that change can create and limit the damage to the business
-Maintain better communication through a difficult process
-Learning about change and how to change
-Demonstrate the benefits of confronting, implementing and assessing change
-Take responsibility for and ownership of change
-Manage and lead the change process
Course content:
What is change and what does it mean to the business?
-The reasons why change happens
-Looking at factors that bring change
The change process and the stages involved
-How change affects organisations and people
-People's attitude to change
Change management styles and roles
-The change agent's role
-Management styles
Change and the team
-Attitudes and behaviours
-The key elements of communicating change and overcoming resistance
-Minimising barriers
-Turning change into opportunity
Change management core competencies
-Techniques for analysing the current situation
-Techniques for building a shared vision of the future
-Rules for creativity and methods for achieving consensus
-Introduction to planning techniques
-Maintaining momentum
-Problem solving
Review of Programme
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-Creative Thinking and Problem Solving