Change Management Boot Camp – Foundation and Practitioner

Description

Course Description:
The Change Management boot camp course combines the Foundation course and Practitioner course. It provides participants with a basic but solid grounding in the Principles of Change Management and expands to how to apply.  It starts participants off with the basics to understanding why change happens, how change happens and what needs to be done to make change a more welcoming concept.  It expands to provide participants with a thorough grounding in the Principles of Change Management, as they are summarized in the reference literature. The Change Management boot camp is those in organizations looking for insights into different frameworks and ways of approaching change at an individual, team and organizational level.

This course is delivered using a case study and an exercise kit designed to further enhance and cement the candidates understanding of the subject. Students who have attended this course are suitably prepared to successfully take the associated Change Management Foundation and Practitioner certification exams.  

Course and Learning Objectives:
At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand how to support people during change
• Appreciate why teams are important in change
• Understand what factors contribute to team success and team performance
• Familiarize with key metaphors describing how organizations change
• Understand what assumptions people may have about organizational change
• Be aware of what key areas need to be considered are when planning organizational change
• Understand the difference between management and leadership
• Understand how to support people learn what they need to during change
• Appreciate different approaches to change management and their implications for supporting individuals through change and understand why people react as they do and how delegates can help individuals through the change process
• Appreciate why teams are important in change, understand what factors contribute to team success and understand how teams change and develop and so help delegates to deliver improvements in team performance
• Identify key metaphors describing how organizations change and how these can help delegates plan appropriate action during change
• Understand what assumptions people may have about organizational change
• Formulate an integrated model of the change management process and how this can help delegates to introduce successful change within an organization
• Know what key areas need to be considered are when planning organizational change and understand the difference between management and leadership
• Identify different leadership styles and their effects on the change process
• Understand the important role leaders have to play in change management
• Begin to develop a healthy response to the demands of change management leadership
• Take the Change Management Practitioner Certification exam

Course Approach:
Participants will learn the principles and core elements of Change Management, namely:

• Managing change and the individual
• Managing change and the team
• Managing change and the organization
• Leadership and change

An interactive approach is used combining lecture, discussion and case study experience to prepare participants for the Change Management Foundation certification exam as well as providing valuable practical knowledge that can be rapidly applied in the workplace. Mock examination are provided and used as a preparation to the final test.

Course Student Material:
Students will receive a Change Management Foundation and Practitioner classroom workbook containing all of the presentation materials, course notes, case study and sample exams.

Reference Materials:
Pre-course study material should be purchased by attendees and read prior to class.  “The effective change manager’s handbook” ISBN-13: 978-0749473075.  This book is also used as an open book for the Practitioner exam.

Prerequisites:
Delegates will be expected to have completed the assigned pre-course study material prior to attending this course. Such material will be sent to delegates approximately two weeks before the start of your course.

Target Audience:
Program, Project and Business Managers, HR representatives, any member of a team involved in a transformation.