This training course is designed to teach employees about change management and how to implement changes in the workplace. It will look at what constitutes ‘change’, what people’s reactions to change often are, how to deal with those reactions, and how to implement change smoothly so that it can have an overall positive effect.

Topics covered:

• Preparing for change
• Understanding change
• Leading and managing change
• Gaining support and leading status meetings
• Appreciative Inquiry and its 4 stages
• Building resiliency and flexibility.

Objectives: upon completion of this course, participants will learn:

• Why change is an important part of life.
• How change can have a positive effect in the workplace.
• Understanding the influences and reactions to change.
• How to gain support and address concerns relating to change.
• The purpose of appreciative enquiry and its 4 stages.
• How to build resiliency and flexibility, and why they’re important.

Designed for:

• This course is designed for employees who are in leadership roles. It is designed to equip them with a general knowledge of change management and how to lead a team through a change in the workplace.

Outcomes:

• On successful completion of this course employees will have the necessary information to be able to plan, manage and implement change in the workplace. Employees will also learn what the common reactions to change are, and how to work through them. They will learn how best to manage change with minimum resistance and how to celebrate successes and encourage future change implementation.

Duration

• 30 minutes