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Background to Change Management
Change is an unstoppable force that is all around us and is happening all of the time. Organisations need to change in order to respond to changes in their environment, which are driven by customer demand, advances in technology or the requirements of new legislation, to name just a few of the reasons.
Charles Darwin, writing in the 19th century captured the essence of 21st century corporate life when he said “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
When we experience changes in our working environment our anxiety levels rise as we inevitably ask ourselves questions such as:
- Who will I be working with?
- Will they like me?
- Where will I be based?
- Will my working hours be different?
- Do I have the skills to do the job?
- Will others be better at the new role than me?
Even if we are in a position of leading the changes that are to be made, the situation will still be complex. In many cases we are responsible for managing our day to day work, and that of our colleagues, as well as scoping, developing and implementing the desired changes. As a result we can find our working hours increasing dramatically, feeling under great stress and having to provide reassurance and a positive attitude when interacting with those whose world we are changing.
The Principles of Change Management course has been designed to address the needs of these two areas of responsibilities:
- those who will experience organisational change, and the upheaval that this will cause to their day to day responsibilities and the role that they perform for the company
- those who will define and implement change within an organisation, either at team level or in a wider sphere across the organisation as a whole
The Principles of Change Management qualification demonstrates that you have a good understanding of different types of change, the benefits of change and the impact of change on individuals, teams and the organisation as a whole. The course will review a wide range of management theories which analyse resistance to change, the steps that individuals and teams go through when adapting to change and the strategies that we can use to ensure change can be implemented in a structured way, taking into account these ‘human’ factors. The course will draw on your own experiences and ask you to put what you are learning into the context of what you are trying to achieve in your own organisation.
View the APM Group's brochure: Prepare for Change with the APM Group's Change Management Qualifications
