About This Training Course

Organisations today must change to stay alive, and the way in which change is managed can have a dramatic effect on our success. We may initiate change or it may be imposed upon us.

In this Change Management Training Course, you will discover how to lead your team through times of change while remaining happy and productive. This Change Management Training Course has been designed to provide participants (Leaders managers, supervisors and employees) with the knowledge and skills to plan, implement and monitor change in the workplace.

Subjects Covered

This Change Management Training Coursewill cover the following subjects:

INTRODUCTION
• Setting the context
• Learning outcomes
• Personal objectives

SEEING THE ICEBERG
• When change doesn’t work
• The 8 steps of change
• Our iceberg is melting
• Identifying opportunities for change
• Change is happening!

BUILDING MOMENTUM THROUGH URGENCY
• What urgency? Finding a source of motivation
• Addressing complacency
• Pushing up the level of urgency

BUILDING THE GUIDING TEAM
• Can you create change alone?
• Identifying the right people to form the guiding team
• Creating trust and sharing the common goal
• Steps to create a guiding team

DEVELOPING THE VISION AND STRATEGY
• Why spend time on a vision?
• Creating a vision
• Strategic planning

COMMUNICATING TO SECURE BUY-IN
• Failure to communicate
• KIS communication
• Pitching your communications
• Devising a communication plan
• Checking for buy-in

EMPOWERING ACTION
• Barriers to empowerment
• Removing the barriers to change

CREATING SHORT TERM WINS
• Change takes time
• Are we progressing?
• Communicating short term wins

DON’T LET UP & MAKE CHANGE STICK
• Keeping the momentum going
• Making change stick

THE STORY
• Typical change characters
• Back in the workplace

ACTION PLAN
• Planning to put knowledge and skills into practice
• References and further reading

Training Course Outcomes

At the end of this Change Management Training course participants will be able to:

• Use John Kotter’s 8-step change process to lead change in your organisation;
• Identify ways to increase the urgency to change;
• Define the important elements when creating a team to guide change;
• Prepare a compelling vision for the change process;
• Create strategic plans to promote the introduction of change;
• Adapt your communications to secure people’s buy-in to change;
• Apply techniques to increase participation in change initiatives;
• Build a work environment that encourages creativity and innovation;
• Develop monitoring processes to provide evidence of the success of change; and
• Implement ongoing processes to continue to seek opportunities to improve and change.

Prerequisites

This Change Management Training course requires no prior training or experience.

Other Information

If you need more information contact Startnextweek.com.au on 1300 728 102