Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Course

Why select this training course?

Change is a significant factor in running an organization, so managers must learn about the methods and techniques of change management.

What are the categories of change management?

The Rcademy Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Course are curated to help participants understand the basics of change management. Participants will be taught how to manage change before, during, and after its execution. They will also learn how to apply their knowledge of change management to effectively run their organization. Change management foundation and practitioner is double qualification training developed to assist personnel tasked with effectively planning, managing, and implementing change initiatives within an organization.

Who should attend?

The Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Training Course by Rcademy is suitable for personnel in the management industry and those looking to switch to this area. The following personnel should undertake this course:

• Change managers: tasked with monitoring the impacts of change to reduce its negative impacts while maximizing benefits for the organization
• Strategic planning directors: charged with monitoring the company’s processes and operations using strategic initiatives
• Business analysts: tasked with conducting market analyses, evaluating product lines, and the profitability of a business enterprise
• Senior management professionals: charged with planning and overseeing employees, monitoring job progresses, and taking proactive actions
• Risks managers: charged with overseeing the risks of a company, its customers, assets, employees, and stakeholders’ interests
• Stakeholder engagement managers: tasked with communicating with stakeholders and responding to their inquiries
• Organizational development managers: responsible for planning, implementing, and administering development programs for employees
• IT managers: responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of the firm’s technology, providing VPN assess to workers, and coordinating with other units
• Asset Managers: responsible for determining investment risks and protecting a company’s assets
• Functional managers: charged with supervising the daily operations of a company and offering directions to employees
• Change management practitioners: tasked with designing and executing change management strategies
• Individuals interested in learning about change management techniques

What are the course objectives?

The Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Training Course by Rcademy aims to help participants achieve the following objectives:

• Understand how the procedures of organizational transformation or change occur
• Design strategies that help keep people motivated during change
• Recognize the various project management framework and programs that changes are implemented
• Learn about the various processes of organizational change
• Understand how to manage resistance to change properly
• Learn how to build change teams, define and assign roles and responsibilities to members
• Recognize the different roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and how to keep them engaged during change processes
• Recognize the various ways people react to change and how to assist them in adapting
• Understand the categories of change management

How will this course be presented?

The content of this course is designed solely to improve and satisfy participants’ skills; it is participant-oriented. Several quality methodologies are employed to ensure constant participation and satisfaction of participants. This course is taught to experts in this field alongside in-depth individual modules that thoroughly deal with several principles and practices in fund accounting.

The Rcademy Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Course consist of theory and practical learning by providing lecture notes, case studies, visual aids, group discussions and problem-solving sessions, quizzes, review of class activities, seminars, and individual reports after every interaction.

What are the topics covered in this course?

Module 1: Introduction to Change Management

• Overview and definition of terms
• Types of change management
• Models of change
• Creating a vision and objective
• Roles needed for change
• Benefits of change management
• Emergent change
• The lifecycle of change

Module 2: The Change Management Practitioner

• Definition of change Management practitioner
• The Roles of the change management practitioner
• The top skills of the change management practitioner
  – Expert communication
  – Strategic thinking
  – Project management
  – Research
  – Leadership
  – Active listening
• Becoming a change management practitioner

Module 3: Stakeholder Engagement

• Overview of stakeholders
• Duties of stakeholder
• Stakeholder mapping
• Influencing and listening
• Cognitive biases
• Influencing strategies
• Communications and analysis
• Personas and empathy maps
• Collaborations
• Identification
• Stakeholders and the change management process

Module 4: Change Readiness

• Change plan
• Motivation to change
• Awareness and participation
• Developing organizational change readiness
• Expectancy theory and change
• Preparing for resistance
• Supporting individuals
• Measuring successes

Module 5: Change and the Organisation

• Vital Roles in organizational change
• The models of change
• Metaphors and organization
• The drivers of change
• Viewpoint and change vision
• Developing an organizational change plan

Module 6: Change Impact

• Stakeholder impact analysis
• Building a change team
• Evaluating impact
• McKinsey 7S Model
• Evaluating change readiness
• How to staff for a large change
• Gap Analysis
• Building team effectiveness

Module 7: Engagement and Communication

• Theories of communication
• Managing and evaluating communications
• Techniques for engagement and communications
• Planning communication
• AIDA
• Feedback and communication methods
• Communicating change
• Communication channels

Module 8: Individual Change

• Motivation
• Change and the individual
• The change curve
• The levers of change
• Reinforcing systems
• Personality differences
• The levels of adoption and critical mass

Module 9: Change Management Perspective

• Models of the change process
• Models of individual change
• Organizational culture
• The systematic differences between people
• Change management styles

Module 10: Change and Expectancy Theory

• Change agent network
• The components of expectancy theory
• Change severity assessment
• Valence with change
• Instrumentality with change
• Metaphors and organizations