Instructor: Alex Dietrich
Suggested prior knowledge: None
Prerequisites: None
Semester(s) Offered: See course list

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Course Description

Whether implementing new technology, managing company acquisitions & mergers, adapting to external market changes, or launching new products and services, change management allows you to assess the situation, understand why the change is needed, align efforts and resources, and manage the change itself. Leading a change initiative involves both people and process. While you are navigating the technical elements of change, you are also navigating people's reactions to change. This highly interactive course will enable new and established change agents to lead and manage change with confidence and clarity. You can positively impact organizational culture through change management. 

Skills and Knowledge Gained

  • Understand Change Management theory. 
  • Understand behavioral and organizational components of individual, team and organization-wide change. 
  • Facilitate change using the Lewin, Beer, Kotter, ADKAR and other models of change management.
  • Apply strategies, tools and best practices for managing change. 
  • Communicate change effectively.  
  • Measure and assess change.
  • Manage conflict and resistance that arises from change. 
  • Positively impact organizational culture through effective change management. 

Why should you take this course? 

Anyone working in a leadership or management capacity has to anticipate, facilitate and sustain change. This course is for people who are interested in developing change management strategies and leading effectively through the process.

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