Course Objectives
The program focuses on the following objectives:
1. Acquire the knowledge and confidence to manage change / restructuring within their organizations.
2. Understand the pressures and opportunities caused by change, and how people react differently to it.
3. Gain the skills and knowledge to initiate, anticipate, and respond positively, to change, and to learn how to generate positivity in others.
4. Understand how to manage and overcome resistance to change.
Course Outline
Day 1:
- Understanding change
• What changes are coming?
• Generation y, technology, working conditions, etc.
• Theories of change
• Categorizing types of change
• The phases of change
- Managing during change
• Impact of change
• Stages of transition
• psychological stages of change
o Shock
o Resistance
o Rejection
o Resolution
o Acceptance
o Integration
o ‘Buy-in’
Day 2:
- Managing during change
• Developing anticipatory change
• The roles involved in change
• The ADKAR model and its application
• Potential problems
• Action planning
- Overcoming resistance to change
- Change and you
• The ‘nature of change’ pattern
• Communicating change
- The change manager’s checklist
- The eight-step process of implementing successful change
- The skills needed to be a successful ‘change agent’
