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Effective Change Management Development
Change is never easy – as human beings we have innate drivers to seek and maintain equilibrium. However, we know that any change that is well communicated, managed, coordinated and participatory, and where people are ‘held’ through difficult phases, will lead to the organisation’s ability to move to and remain with the new desired change.
Organisations find themselves in constantly changing environments, which can have an adverse affect on employees. However, we know that any change that is well communicated, managed, coordinated and participatory, and where people are ‘held’ through difficult phases, will lead to the organisation’s ability to move to and remain with the new desired change
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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