Managing Change Training Course

In today's constantly evolving world, change is inevitable in any organisation. New technologies are being implemented all of the time and changes to processes and policies are common place. When changes are made in organisations it needs to be managed effectively, otherwise people resist, become negative and performance drops. This workshop provides the skills and techniques needed to manage change effectively and reducing the level of resistance.

By the end of the workshop attendees will:

• Be able to describe to people why change is necessary
• Understand why people react the way they do to change
• Be able to demonstrate the use of a range of tools to manage change effectively
• Understand how to make change stick.

Course Content

• Understanding if change is necessary
• How do people feel about change and why?
• How to drive change in the business
• How to manage resistance
• How to communicate change effectively
• How to ensure change stick.

Course Benefits

Reducing resistance to change allows new initiatives to be implemented smoothly, generating commitment and buy in from all affected. This in turn means little impact on performance as people take on board the changes rather than find ways to fight against them.

Who should Attend

Those involved in instigating or managing change in organisations.

Session Breakdown

Why change is necessary?

• Why do businesses need to change and how do people feel when this happens?
• Who instigates change?
• Who does change affect?

How to manage change?

• How to pro-actively manage change
• How to ensure the negative feelings (resistance) to change don't creep in
• Using simple methodologies to manage change

Being Pro-active

• How to build the tools from the previous section into your change management plans
• How to make people feel good about change.