Strategic Change Management

This program equips learners to develop a strategy for sustainable change and gain the knowledge required to implement and oversee change initiatives while managing resistance from stakeholders, while also developing the insight to maintain agility, effectively manage aversion to change, and ensure that change is sustainable through building and leading a learning-ready organization. Successful completion of the full program is required to earn this Certificate of Completion. Program content includes: Module 1: Formulating a Strategy for Change Understand the importance of strategy to create change and learn to write an effective strategy statement Identify the key elements of an effective strategy statement Practice writing a strategy statement Critique an organization's strategy statement Module 2: Organizing for Change Explore the importance of designing an organization effectively to manage change Relate the importance of an organization's structure to its competitive advantage Articulate the best approach to change an organization's design Module 3: Metrics and Motivating for Change Explore how the application of metrics can create motivation for change Use metrics and measurement to motivate for change Analyze data to determine the alignment between an organization's strategy and structure Determine how an organization should change to align its strategy and structure Module 4: Organizing for Execution and Innovation Explore the use of social network structures as a way to foster execution and innovation Articulate how to organize for closure versus brokerage Determine whether an organization is designed for closure or brokerage Analyze an organization's informal social networks and deduce whether it is structured for execution or innovation Recommend changes to an organization's informal social networks to foster execution and innovation Module 5: Building and Leading Learning-Ready Organizations Develop a framework for creating a learning-ready organization for a competitive advantage Identify the core concepts of a learning-ready organization Determine the learning-readiness of an organization Apply the concept of learning-readiness to organizational alliances Deduce appropriate social networks to facilitate a learning-ready organization Module 6: Becoming and Remaining Agile Discover the importance of strategic and organizational agility to implementing change Identify what agility is and discuss it in the context of organizational strategy Indicate ways to become more agile Apply tools to increase strategic and organizational agility Module 7: Managing Resistance to Change Examine the hurdles to implementing change and ways to overcome them Identify different types of innovation and how innovation leads to resistance Determine the risks associated with stakeholder perception to disruptive innovation Recommend ideas to manage resistance to change Module 8: Making Change Sustainable Ensure the long-term survival of your change management plan Understand the difference between installing change and implementing change Investigate an organization's ability to sustain change Predict whether a change management plan is likely to be sustained or not