Gain the knowledge and skills needed to effectively apply Change Management principles in various organisational change scenarios.
Description
CPA Australia has joined forces with Lumify Work to offer a comprehensive range of accredited self-paced courses. Leveraging their decades of training expertise, deep industry knowledge, and unrivalled vendor connections, their goal is to equip you with the skills and insights needed to advance further and faster in your career. This course is a continuation from the Change Management Foundation course. Completing this course immediately after the Foundation course is highly recommended to achieve your best learning outcomes; it will also help to maximise your chances of exam success.
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 version 3 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 participant 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 Practitioner's success.
Examination
This course pricing includes a voucher for the Change Management v3 Practitioner Exam which can be taken via remote proctor. A practice exam paper is provided in the course,and reviewed to assist in preparation.
The exam is:
- 2.5 hours
- Objective testing questions based on a case study scenario
- 5 sections of 16 marks each
- Requires 50% (40 marks out of 80) to pass
- Open book (The Change Manager’s Study Guide only)
It is highly recommended that you spend some additional time reviewing and consolidating what you’ve learned, to be well prepared for the exam.
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Learning objectives
Successful completion of this course will enable participants to:
- 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