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Why Enrol?
- Evaluate your assumptions about the nature of change
- Describe approaches to change models and theories
- Understand the complex and unpredictable nature of change, and how to navigate through it
- Understand various models for managing change, and how they apply to your work situation
- Be able to describe Kubler-Ross’ model on the emotional impact of change (the transition curve) and potential leadership responses and tasks at each stage
- Understand the typical responses to change and how they can be managed
- Develop and apply a coherent framework to change initiatives
- Develop the capacity to deal with the uncertainty and paradoxes of managing change
Syllabus
- Exploring assumptions about change
- Planned, programmed and emergent nature of change
- Change models
- Chaos and new paradigm thinking
- Complex adaptive systems
- Endings, transitions and new beginnings
- Commitments to change
- Emotional responses to change – and the role of managers in helping people deal with transitions
- Considering the responses to constant change:
- Resistance to change
- Responses and impacts to constant change
- Organisational change readiness
- Programmed change
- Emergent change
- Preparing people for change
- Providing a sense of purpose and progress
- Creating an organisation with values and an identity that are sufficiently compelling for talented people to buy into
- How organisations can increase their capacity for change
- Business as usual
- Dilemmas/tensions/paradoxes in managing change and uncertainty
- Planning what to do next – how to apply the learning
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