Organisational Change Management Courses

What is Change Management?

In the modern business environment, change is relentless. This can be challenging, but it also presents opportunities. By effectively managing change, organisations enhance their performance and achieve their goals. Understanding the impact of change is crucial to its management. Change can create either positive or negative outcomes. It can lead to increased productivity, improved morale and new opportunities, or it can cause stress, anxiety, and resistance.

Master the art of organisational change with our updated Change Management Version 3 courses. Learn practical, agile approaches to successfully manage transitions and transform businesses. Our courses, developed in partnership with APMG and the Change Management Institute, are designed to help organisations and their people manage the impact of change. They provide techniques to effectively plan and implement successful transformation initiatives, exploring how change affects, and is affected by, individuals, teams, change leaders, and organisations.

Introducing Version 3

Our Change Management courses are based on the guidance provided by Change Management Version 3 which was launched in March 2024. The updates provided by Version 3 reflect the evolving needs of the change management profession, providing learners with a focused curriculum that develops core change management skills. By offering a streamlined study guide and refreshed syllabus topics, this latest version ensures that change professionals receive training that prepares them to successfully navigate the complexities of current organisational changes.

Whether you are new to change management or a seasoned practitioner, this new version brings valuable insights and practical strategies to elevate your skills and deepen your understanding of change management.

Our courses

We offer three Change Management Version 3 courses, with a range of delivery modes and inclusions for each:

What our courses cover

Our Change Management courses equip individuals with the knowledge, proven methods and techniques to:

• Provide effective support and motivation to individuals and teams to embrace change
• Draw from a range of professional approaches to implement change smoothly and effectively
• Identify and engage with key stakeholders throughout the change process to gain support
• Speed up the implementation of change programs
• Unlock resistance to change
• Highlight their contribution as change professionals to initiatives.

Techniques and tools discussed in the course, such as how to lead change and involve those impacted by it, and effective communication strategies, can help organisations manage change and reap the benefits.

The Foundation and Practitioner qualifications also offer a pathway to independent accreditation by the Change Management Institute.

Our Change Management Courses

The purpose of our courses is to provide a robust foundation of knowledge for anyone involved in organisational change inititives. Successful candidates will have the knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute constructively to teams specifying, developing, implementing and sustaining organisational change initiatives.

Benefits for individuals

• Understand the human side of change and know how to help people deal more effectively with change, maintaining their commitment and bringing them successfully through the change process;
• Understand the various types of change that affect organizations, and know how to draw on a range of professional approaches to support the effective delivery of the organization’s desired outcomes from each change initiative;
• Know how to identify and work with the stakeholders in a change initiative, and how to plan, execute and measure the effective communications required to build and maintain their engagement;
• Know how to assess the impacts of change, to develop effective change teams and to recognize and address resistance to change;
• Understand the process of sustaining change and know how to embed a change initiative as the new ‘business as usual’.

Benefits for organisations

• Build the organisation’s capability and capacity to deal successfully with change, improving agility;
• Increase the probability of successful business change/transformation – supporting strategic direction;
• Minimize risks (costs, delays, loss of employee engagement, reputation) associated with failed initiatives;
• Align change initiatives with established, process-driven methods (like PRINCE2® and MSP®) to develop a unified approach to change;
• Develop and sustain employee commitment and alignment with organisational purpose during times of change;
• Build and maintain the engagement of internal and external stakeholders with new initiatives;
• Manage more effective change communications with internal and external constituencies so that change is understood and supported;
• Improve assessment of change impact, integrated change planning and successful embedding of change into the life of the organisation.

Recommended reading

Our courses are based on the Change Management Institute's (CMI) Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK), version 2, but you will not need a copy to take our courses.

An eBook entitled "The Change Management Study Guide" has been developed by APMG and is provided as part of our courses. The guide is a streamlined and concise resource, designed to cover everything included in the Change Management Foundation and Practitioner courses.

Why we are the best value

Our Change Management courses cover the breadth and depth of change management. They are presented in a clear, predictable with key concepts reinforced and broken down into manageable sections, making it an enjoyable course.

We recognise that studying and sitting exams can be a stressful time on top of the day-to-day commitments of our lives. Therefore the structure and flow of the course provides predictability and confidence that the learner will be able to plan and manage their own learning experience and to grasp key concepts quickly. This results in being confident in your ability to pass the certification exams and to be able to apply what has been learnt to work practice.

Our courses were developed by Geoff Rankins, our Lead Trainer and Instructional Designer. He has worked in change management for more than 30 years, and has been a Practitioner of this Change Management product since 2015 when it was first offered by APMG and the Change Management Institute. His systematic approach to courseware and eLearning development is recognised by many Accredited Training Organisations and fellow trainers globally. Our eLearning courses are based on our classroom courses, but the eLearning format allows us to add content to most sessions to increases the value and clarity of what is being covered.

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