Change Management Course

Public Change Management Course

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This one-day Public Change Management Course is suitable for anyone facing change in the workplace, whether initiating it yourself, having it thrust upon you or managing other people through it.

Change Management courses are run by

Bronia Szczygiel - Liz McKechnie - Julie Wales
Trixie Rawlinson - Tina Lamb

There has been some financial turbulence to travel through over recent months. Some people in your organisation may have felt the effects heavily, some may have been firmly in their lifejackets, for others it may be that the change exists around another area altogether. The change may be a great thing. Or it may be scary.

Whatever it is, this course can help you explore and understand the things that happen before, during and after change. It will offer practical tools to make potentially difficult situations a bit easier and it will engage you with change in realistic and empowering way.

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Change Management Course Objectives

* Understanding of the impact of change
* Supporting and preparing for impending changes
* Managing others through changes in your workplace
* Getting buy-in; dealing with resistance
* Avoiding the 'tyranny of positivity'
* Managing your organisation through difficult changes
* Becoming an 'agent for change'
* Building and maintaining good working relationships
* Getting more creative with change solutions
* Gaining increased confidence and motivation

Change Management Course Programme

The course content may include many of the exercises listed below, and any additional material that the trainers feel is relevant to the delegates on the day.

Change Overview

We open with a discussion of the different types of change and the effects change may have on different people.

Change Quadrant - Impact on Self

Here participants begin to analyse their own reactions to change and look at the effects of change on others.

Patterns and Uncertainty

One of the reasons that change is so difficult is because all of us are pattern making machines. Without even trying, people start to set a pattern. Raising your awareness around what your patterns are can be a good place to start when addressing how you and others impulsively respond to change.

Change - A Reality Check

Delegates have an opportunity to review the changes that are happening in their organisation and how they currently leave them feeling

Change Transition Curve

The Change Transition curve identifies the stages people go through when any unexpected change happens to them.

Where are you on the change curve?
Where are your colleagues?
Does this give you a new view of things?

Victim Spiral

An exercise that looks at techniques for change management for others and assists in neutralising pockets of negativity

Resistance to Change

It really is the smallest change that can make a significant impact. Through exploration of your current situations and the dynamics that exist between people, there is an opportunity to try out some different responses within the safety of the training room to see what might be useful in the real world.

Active vs Passive Choosing

Here we ask people to identify and work with a recent situation where they passively chose (they were a Passive Passenger and just let something happen). to identify and work with a recent situation where they actively chose.

There follows a brief discussion on difference, especially in terms of feelings and on how either route can be applied to the impending changes.

Ch-Ch-Changes

Here we look at what happens when worries, fears, rumours and gossip get set as facts in people's heads and how they delegates can deal with this, with themselves and when dealing with change management for others.

House of Change

This could get you thinking more innovatively about the challenges of the change in slightly unusual ways. It may well help to give you some potential solutions to help the transition.

You will create four Houses that people might live in or visit. They are called 'Past House' 'Present House' 'Empty House' and 'Future House'. You get a chance to brainstorm what might be happening in each house, getting those imaginative juices flowing, and simply having a look at what comes up for you.

Change - Telling it like it is

Here you will look at ways of taking out blame or justification to simplify a difficult message and find some ways to handle any comeback You will get a chance to see each other's situations and gain further options for dealing with your own changes.

Survival Tactics

Some light-hearted ways to explore what you already have available to you to help you deal with or implement change.

Can-Do Change – Putting It Back Into the Real World

How can you use what you have discovered today back in your real life situation? What can you do now, soon or later?

This is where you get a chance to practise more about change; identify the way forward with your own situations, get help from the rest of the group, revisit bits and pieces from earlier in the day... and whatever else may be useful to you at this stage in the day to get that change management really happening back in the work place.

Personal Change Take Out

Delegates are asked to identify what they are taking away and where they will be putting it into effect, this to include some short term strategies as well as what follow up they need to maintain the momentum of the Change Management Course.

Change Management Course Final Handouts

These include our fantastic branded memory stick crammed full of helpful documents and some reminders of tools from the day.

You will also be given Impact Factory web cards which give access to our extensive e-library.

Hints and tips doc

Managing Change in Others document

And you always have access to us, of course.

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