Change Management

Change happens – from small shifts to large cultural upheavals – and few like it. By understanding change management, your key people can manage and support their teams through the transition process.

This course helps learners to:

• Appreciate the issues involved in implementing and managing change
• Identify the types of change, while recognising barriers to them and developing strategies to overcome them
• Understand the main components of planning change and the manager’s role in leading staff through it
• Use a range of tools, techniques and models to understand, introduce and monitor change interventions
• Develop empathy with staff going through change
• Create personal action plans to improve their ongoing change performance as initiators or managers of change
• Implement change whilst experiencing it themselves

Throughout this highly interactive course there are opportunities to practice and test the skills you are learning.

• The Key Stages of Change
• The Changing Face of Your Organisation
• Your Personal style (using Strengths Deployment Inventory®)
• Barriers to Change
• Change Focus
• Reducing Resistance to Change
• Motivating Staff
• Performance and Stress
• Dealing with De-motivation During Change
• Creating a Motivating Environment
• How Different Personalities React to Change
• Creative Responses, using the tools such as of Force Field, The Morphological Matrix and de Bono 6 Hats
• Managing and Handling Difficult Situations
• My Changing World