Change Management Foundation

Are you considering a career in Change Management? Are you in Change Management but don't have the certification to complement your experience? This course will help you to manage organisational change no matter how big or small.

Change is now more prevalent than ever with the events of Brexit and Covid-19 causing organisations and individuals across the world to adapt to a whole new way of working, living and ultimately surviving.

Taking this Change Management course can help with these transitions and transformations to help better prepare for and manage the impact of change.

This Change Management online training course is officially accredited by APMG and is specifically intended for those with busy schedules that require the flexibility to study in their own time and is for anyone wanting to:

Improve employment prospects

Project Management methods and frameworks are evolving faster than ever. This is occurring in order to keep pace with the growing needs of public and private organisations to deliver better outcomes and benefits. This rapid evolution has expressed itself in recent years in the following ways:

– Greater demand for formally qualified Change Managers.

– Rising salaries for qualified Change Management Professionals.

– Project Managers required to have broader Change Management skills and abilities, specifically focusing on the people side of change.

Change Management Foundation and Practitioner e-learning with Accredited Foundation Exam

This course will help you:

• Gain / retain employment as these lead to highly respected qualifications
• Increase the likelihood of your projects succeeding
• Understand and avoid the common reasons for project failure
• Understand how to structure a project management team, ensuring all relevant stakeholders are catered for with accountability assigned
• Ensure that project requirements (including quality standard) are properly documented
• Create good project business cases and use them for decision making
• Understand the difference between project risks and issues/changes, and how to handle them appropriately
• Understand how individuals react to change, and how change impacts organisations
• Unlock resistance to change to increase the likelihood of successful
• Enable / facilitate teams to effectively deal with and embrace change
• Create strategies for communicating and implementing change initiatives
• Understand what should go into a Change Plan
• Create good project business cases and use them for decision making
• Create vision statements that promote buy-in to a change initiatives
• Apply techniques for identifying and understanding different stakeholders involved in a change

Course features:

• 240+ multimedia course units
• 4 section tests
• 3 timed mock exams
• Various interactive exercises
• In-house certification & excellence badge
• 180 days access

Course sections

Change and the Individual:

• The link between learning & change
• Learning theory, styles and preferences
• Individual responses to change
• Motivation theories and effects
• Implications of personality types

Change and the Organisation:

• Understanding organisation cultures
• Models for change
• Emergent Change
• Leading Change, and vision statements
• Change rules

Communication and Stakeholder Engagement:

• 7 Principles of Stakeholder Engagement
• Communication and cognitive bias
• Barriers to effective communication
• Communication Channels
• Lean/Rich and push/pull communications
• Communication Strategy and Plans

Change Management Practice:

• Impact of Change
• Change readiness
• Building a change team
• Handling resistance to change
• Building and sustaining change momentum

Foundation Exam

• 50 multiple-choice questions
• 25/50 marks or more required to pass - 50%
• Closed book exam
• 40 minutes duration

• Change Managers/aspiring Change Managers
• Change Leaders/Change ‘Agents’ such as Business Change Managers
• Change Implementers such as Project or Programme Managers
• Change Support/Change Team Members
• Change Programme Team members involved in Change Programmes such as design, development and delivery.
• Operational Line Managers/Staff
• Anyone wanting broader project management skills

No prereqisites required for this course and exam bundle.

This course and exam bundle is officially accredited by APMG.

• Change Managers
• Project Managers
• Business Change Managers
• Programme Managers

Many of these roles attract significant salaries of up to £90K