Change management and leadership to ensure success
This programme will focus on enabling managers to align themselves with best practice in managing successful change as well as how to lead through productive influence in times of change. The challenges of change in the modern era require of managers to apply a holistic approach to change management. Successful change requires an accountability fit - therefore a cadre of managers that own the change process.
Learning outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, delegates will be able to:
•Ensure a comprehensive understanding at organisational level as well as the strategic intent
•Align own area of responsibility to change vision
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•Communicate and influence effectively to ensure leadership team is on-board
•Creating focus for change in own area of responsibility
•Strategic alignment
•Conducting systems analysis to determine causes for change requirements or potential causes for change failure
•Conduct stakeholder analysis
•Formulate stakeholder communication plan
•Conduct risk analysis
•Determine critical success factors
•Formulate SMART change objectives
•Ensuring resource capacity to support change strategy achievement
•Communicate effectively at all levels during change
•Understand requirements for effective transitions
•Manage transitions
•Understand requirements for effective leadership towards successful change
•Lead the change
•Deal with resistance to change at various levels
•additional areas - success requirements for mergers and acquisitions
Outline of course content:
The following topics will be covered:
•Understanding the challenges of managers in change
•Requirements for successful change
•The reality of change - a suggested model
•Understanding the pressure for change - creating a sense of urgency
•Ensuring buy-in and believe-in at an early stage through effective communication to the leadership team
•Creating focus in the right areas for successful change
•Mergers and acquisitions as strategic growth strategy
•Strategic alignment - key requirement for change
•Ensuring the leadership team is on-board and aligned
•Systems analysis - considering the business as a web of interrelated activities
•Stakeholder analysis and plan
•Change Risk management and plan
•Organizational change communication
•Critical success factors and change objectives
•Planning change - ensuring resource capacity at all levels
•Managing the transition toward successful change
•Dealing with resistance to change at various levels
•Leadership required for successful change
•Providing support and being visible in change
•Leadership approaches and styles that support successful change
Time: 08:00 - 16:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, Main Campus, Hatfield, Pretoria
Cost: R10,070 (VAT incl.)