Managing Change and Transformation

Online Course on Managing
Change and Transformation

Change is a fact of organisational life, an unavoidable “norm” everyone has to deal with.
Yet deciding what changes to make, winning support for new initiatives and delivering on expectations are still major managerial challenges.

In a world where customers, clients and competitors all face uncertain futures,how can you positively impact the future of your own organisation?

Managing Change and Transformation helps learners to understand how to build a change-ready culture that can make smart decisions and successfully implement innovative ideas. They’ll consider their personal reaction to change, evaluate the organisation’s attitude to innovation and learning, identify barriers to transforming the organisation and explore approaches to overcome them.

Managing Change and Transformation is part of our Issues and Debates suite of learning. Issues and Debates courses stimulate intelligent dialogue and debate and provide a valuable and evolving resource of professional knowledge and experience. These courses are topical, practical and highly relevant to today’s changing market. Each module is split into two activities: Understanding the issues and Putting it into practice. The first encourages you to think about a topic, drawing on your own professional experience and knowledge. The second helps you to put ideas and/or theories into practice as part of your day-to-day work.

Managing Change and Transformation enables the learner to:

• Understand why change matters
• Explore cultural influences on change
• Consider why innovation matters
• Be aware of how to deal with failure
• Balance change, opportunity and risk
• Consider how to overcome resistance to change
• Understand how to win management support

Rating:	100% of learners thought this course met their CPD needs
Reviews:
“Provided me with the skills necessary to implement changes such as new computer systems, methods of departmental working and new product lines.”
“A clear, balanced update on change management – useful in an organisation which is changing.”
“Change is a constant factor within any business, so the course has provided me with the skills necessary to implement changes such as new computer systems, methods of departmental working and new product lines.”
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Learning outcomes of Managing Change and Transformation

Change and you
• Why change matters to you
• Your strategic context
• Linking innovation with change
• Exploring cultural influences on change
• Cross-cultural responses to change

Creating a change-ready culture
• Why innovation and learning matter
• Sharing creative ideas and experiences
• Dealing with failure
• Reassessing processes and systems
• Building a diverse and adaptive team

Leading a team through change
• How people react to change
• Common barriers to change
• Overcoming resistance to change
• Engaging others in your vision
• Communicating about change

Dealing with uncertainty
• Balancing change, opportunity and risk
• Using strategic tools to plan for the future
• Making effective decisions
• Communicating about uncertainty
• Coping in crisis situations

Implementing transformation initiatives
• Turning working at a distance into a competitive advantage
• Winning management support
• Setting goals
• Building an implementation team
• Sustaining change in the long term

Target audience for Managing Change and Transformation

This course is designed to appeal to people working in the accounting and finance industry at all levels.

About the author of Managing Change and Transformation

Anna Faherty is a writer, lecturer and consultant working across the publishing, museum and charity sectors.

She has hands-on management experience as a director of a multi-million pound publishing division and a trustee of a small independent museum.
 

Flexible learning

Learners take their own route through the topics covered in the course. They will learn at their own pace through a variety of activities designed to accommodate a range of learning styles.

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