Change Management Principles

Course Overview

The Change Management Principles course is a one day introduction to the individual and team change implications of organisation change. The course looks at models and tools that help the participants understand and influence the way change happens in their organisations. The course can lead to a nationally recognised award accredited by EDI following an assessment exercise.

Duration: 1 day workshop, total of 20 hours of study time for the assessment
Public courses: Public courses are based around the case study.

Why should you use Aspire Europe?

Aspire Europe is an organisation dedicated to delivering change through programme management. We see the general topic of change as important for all staff to understand.

We look at the tools and techniques that will be helpful day-to-day and identify areas where further development will help. In addition we will explore the different levels of engagement and other skills that will be required to support change.

The course is a starting point for the professional development of all staff involved in change within an organisation. Aspire Europe offer further accredited courses to continue this development.

Benefits of attendance

• Greater understanding of individual and team change
• Tools to help you understand and influence change
• Models to help you make organisation change more effective
• Develop a workplace action plan to manage change

Course Content

Sessions

Pre-coursework

The delegate is asked to read some short relevant articles and carry out some research on their organisation to prepare for the course.

Individual Change

• Individual preferences and Adaptor-Innovator model
• The Kubler-Ross curve of individual response to change.
• Management approaches to individual change
• Perspectives and world views
• Learning styles and their impact on change.
• Where does resistance come from?
• Learning from change

The change team

• How teams change and develop.
• Typical team composition (Belbin) and how to build an effective team.
• Why the change team builds resistance in the organisation.
• Leadership in teams
• Trust in teams and team collaboration
• Team learning mechanisms

Organisational change

• The three stage model for organisation change.
• Organisational leadership for change.
• How to use organisational metaphors for understanding their response to change.
• Envisioning change

The award is administered by the Centre for Change Management.