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Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Combined

Length 5 days
Inclusions Exam vouchers

Course overview

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Why study this course

This Combined course is also available as two separate courses: Change Management Foundation and Change Management Practitioner.

Change comes about in various forms within organisations due to many factors including projects, team restructuring, business analysis identifying different ways of working, company mergers, and outsourcing. No matter how big or small, they all need to be facilitated with Change Management to ensure a successful result.

The purpose of the APMG Change Management Foundation qualification is to confirm that a candidate has sufficient knowledge and understanding of Change Management to work as an informed member of a team working on an organisational change initiative. The Foundation qualification is also a pre-requisite for the Practitioner qualification.

The purpose of the APMG Change Management Practitioner course is to ensure a student has sufficient understanding of how to apply and tailor Change Management guidance in a given organisational change situation. Upon completion of the course a student should, with suitable direction be able to start applying the Change Management approaches and techniques to a real change initiative. Their individual Change Management expertise, complexity of the change initiative and the support provided for the use of Change Management approaches in their work environment will all be factors in the Practitioners success.

The APMG Change Management 2015 (Foundation and Practitioner) qualification is designed to provide a robust foundation of knowledge for anyone involved in organisational change initiatives. Upon completion of this combined qualification students will have the knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute constructively to teams specifying, developing, implementing, and sustaining change initiatives.

The qualification is based upon the Change Management Institute’s (CMI) Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK) “The Effective Change Manager”. The book provided as part of courseware is “The Effective Change Manager’s Handbook”.

Examination
This course pricing includes vouchers for the Change Management Foundation Exam and Change Management Practitioner Exam which can be taken via remote proctor. Practice exam papers are provided in the course, and reviewed to assist in preparation.

The Foundation exam is:

40 minutes
50 multiple-choice questions
Closed book – no other materials are allowed
Requires 50% (25 marks) pass to attain certification

The Practitioner exam is:

2.5 hours
Objective testing multiple-choice questions
Open book (The Effective Change Manager’s Handbook and the Candidate Guide to Examinable Text only)
Requires 50% pass to attain certification

It is highly recommended that you spend some time each evening of this course reviewing and consolidating what you’ve learned, to be well prepared for the exam.

Aligns to certification

Change Management Certification

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What you’ll learn

Foundation:

Explain how individuals are impacted by change, different ways they may respond to change situations and how learning processes help them adapt
Contribute to development of strategies to help individuals through change, increasing motivation for change and overcoming resistance in order to achieve desired outcomes
Offer insights on how organisations work, how the process of organisational change occurs and the typical roles that collaborate to deliver successful change
Identify key characteristics of an organisations culture, and recognise different types of change process (eg planned and emergent change)
Describe significant elements of the stakeholder engagement process in a change initiative, and relate this to appropriate communications strategies
Discuss with colleagues the different areas of impact of a change initiative, and how momentum for that change might be built and sustained
Outline important aspects of how to build an effective change team, and to contribute to discussions about how to improve the effectiveness of a team

Practitioner:

Identify the organisational drivers of a change initiative
Use a range of organisational models to understand, support and sustain change processes whether these changes are planned, emergent or complex, taking account of the culture of the organisation
Apply an appropriate process framework to help plan or understand any particular organisational change
Establish a clear framework of roles, skills and activities through which leaders from different levels can support and sustain the change process
Contribute effectively to preparation for a change initiative, including building the change team, offering insights which improve team effectiveness
Offer relevant insights in discussions about how to prepare people for change, including planning for learning and motivational issues relevant to different roles and types of people
Help colleagues understand the difference between organisation change and transitions as they affect people, and suggest practical leadership actions at different stages of a change
Support the identification and mapping of stakeholders in a change process and help develop approaches to build and maintain stakeholder engagement
Draft the communications plan for a change initiative, taking proper account of the various stakeholders and of an appropriate range of communication channels
Recognise signs of resistance to change and propose actions to mitigate it
Propose a range of levers by which a change can be sustained and become embedded in the organisation

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Who is the course for?

This qualification is aimed at individuals who are involved in change initiatives, requiring a working knowledge of the key principles of change management. It will significantly help those who need to know the terminology used and some of the theory behind the practice. It will also help key staff involved in the design, development, and delivery of change programmes, including change leaders, change agents, change implementers, change support, and operational line managers / staff.

Management
Change Managers / Specialists / Practitioners
Programme / Project Managers
Supervisors and Team Leaders
Consultants
Facilitators
Business Analysts
Human Resources staff
Professional Development personnel

We can also deliver and customise this training course for larger groups – saving your organisation time, money and resources. For more information, please contact us via email on [email protected]

Course subjects

Learning and the Individual

Learning process and styles
Learning dip

Change and the Individual

Models of individual change
Motivation
Individual differences

Change and the Organisation

Metaphors of organisations
Organisation culture and change
Models of change
Key roles in organisational change
Drivers of change
Developing vision

Stakeholder Strategy

Principles
Identifying and segmenting stakeholders
Personas and empathy maps
Stakeholder mapping
Influencing strategies

Communication and Engagement

Communications biases
Feedback and communications approaches
Communicating change – factors, barriers and approaches
Communications channels (Push-Pull & Lean-Rich)
Planning communications

Change Impact

Identifying and assessing change impact
Stakeholder impact assessment
Change severity assessment

Change Readiness

Motivation to change and supporting individuals
Change agent networks
Building organisational change readiness
Building the change team
Change management plan
Preparing for resistance

Prerequisites

None

Industry Association Recognition

Project Management Institute (PMI®)

Contact hours: 35 hours
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 35 PDUs

Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM®)

Continual Professional Development (CPD) points: 20 points

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)

Credit hours: 35 hours
Continuing Development Units (CDUs): 35 CDUs

APMG Exams

Lumify Work cannot sell APMG courses (AgileBA®, AgilePM®, AgilePgM®, Better Business Cases™, Change Management, Facilitation, and Project Planning & Control™) without the corresponding official exam as per requirement from APMG International.

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