Driving 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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