Understanding Change in the Workplace
Overview
Change is constant in the world of work. Being able to understand why change is happening and how it will affect you and others helps you and your organisation effectively navigate your way through change.
Learning objectives
- Understand change in an organisation
- Understand the effects of change on people and finance in an organisation
Who is it for?
For anyone currently or about to be involved in change in the workplace. This course is often used as part of organisational retention strategy to help steady mood whilst navigating change at work and also works well as part of a team building event.
Course content
- The benefits of change and the consequences of not changing
- The role of change in the survival and prosperity of organisations
- Concepts of creativity and innovation and their significance for organisational success and change management
- The role of communication in successful implementation of change
- Barriers to change and innovation – how to identify them and other difficulties in implementing change
- Means of overcoming barriers and difficulties including unfreezing and freezing techniques
- Methods to monitor and control progress of change against plan, including use of Gantt charts, network planning
- Change fatigue and its adverse effects
- Ways to organise and co-ordinate resources and activities to achieve planned change
- Simple introduction to the difference between fixed and variable costs
- Direct and indirect aspects of change – human and financial effects upon other people, departments and organisations
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