Adapting to Change

To understand from a business, team and productivity perspective, the importance of quick adaptation to change in a working environment. Ineffective change responses leads to a breakdown of strategy which in turn impacts negatively on the outcome. From a leadership perspective the specific circumstances that go along with change need to be identified, understood and effectively addressed. From a team’s perspective understanding how to navigate the changes effectively becomes invaluable.

What is Change Management and How Managing Change Achieves Better Results?
- Defining change management
- The effect of change
- What to consider prior to implementing change?
- How big a role does change play in a professional environment?

The Nature of Change
- Approaching change from an organisational change perspective
- Approaching change from a team change perspective
- Approaching change from a management perspective
- What to do when the 3 do not align

Reactive and Proactive Change
- Investigating both reactive and proactive organisations
- Investigating leadership styles
- Put it into practice

A Model for Effective Change Management
- Beer et al model for change
- Bullock and Batten model for change
- Kotter's eight step change model
- Put it into practice

The Individuals' Process of Resistance to Change
- The filter of the mind
- How our perceptions are formed
- Signals of resistance
- How we as individuals behave when faced with change
- The importance of Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking in rapidly changing environments.

Top Ten Reasons for Resistance to Change and How to Overcome them
- Top ten reasons people resist change
- Overcoming fears and resistance through persuasion
- Working with team needs

Preparation and Planning
Aligning to principles/vision and goals

Ways to Manage the Risk
- Identifying inherent risks
- A third dimension of costs and risks
- Putting a risk register together

Keeping it Real, Putting it into Practice
- How to manage your meetings
- How to deal with difficult meetings

The delegate will be able to demonstrate and implement a better-planned and formalised way forward, managing change whilst retaining and/or increasing productivity.

SAQA US ID 115407 NQF Level 5 Credits 10 US Title: Apply the principles of change management in the workplace

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