Yet deciding what changes to make, winning support for new initiatives and delivering on expectations are still major managerial challenges.
Managing Change and Transformation helps you
to understand how to build a change-ready culture that can make smart decisions
and successfully implement innovative ideas. You'll consider your 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 Nelson Croom's 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.
Course overview
Change and you
- Change and 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