Is Change Management the course for you?
Key takeaways
Change management improves how organisations plan, lead, and sustain change.
- Change management helps organisations understand why change happens and how to overcome resistance to it.
- Effective practice links change drivers to governance, and sets clear roles, skills, and activities for leaders and teams.
- Change is implemented by a wider group, including project, programme, and operational managers, not only change managers.
- Change managers coach leaders, embed change activities into plans, and track benefits to measurable business outcomes.
- Certification improves stakeholder engagement, reduces failure risk, and builds more effective change teams.
Is it only change managers who implement change?
No. Project managers, programme managers and business change managers can implement change management in an organization. The key staff involved in the design, development and delivery of change programmes include senior responsible owners, business change managers, programme managers and operational line managers.
What are the responsibilities of a change manager?
Change managers act as a coach for senior leaders and executives in helping them fulfil the change role. Change managers also support project teams in integrating change management activities into their
- The change management initiative is likely to be more effective because the people involved in leading the change will be drawing on a range of professional approaches
- Staff will be better able to adjust to organizational change
- Stakeholder engagement is likely to be more effective during change initiatives
- It will minimize the risks associated failed change initiatives because the change leaders are following best practices
- More effective change teams can be established
- Team resistance to change can be addressed throughout the initiatives
- There’s an increased probability of successful business change or transformation.
Are there any prerequisites for the Change Management course?
No previous experience is required.
What’s the difference between Foundation and Practitioner?
The APMG change management certification scheme awards certification at 2 levels: Foundation and Practitioner.
The difference is the level of understanding. The Change Management Foundation