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Course Description

An important part of the leadership skillset is the ability to help those you lead navigate change. For many of us, leading and implementing change falls to leaders throughout the organization to initiate, so it is up to many leaders to manage change – whether it comes top down or whether you have ideas for improvement that you want to push to the top. The Tools for Change series provides tools to evaluate business need and risks associated with change initiatives to stay focused and productive. It also provides skills for generating input – including brainstorming, evaluating options, and making decisions.

This Series is comprised of three separate courses.  The registration button on this page will automatically register you in all three courses with a 15% series discount.

Length: Courses in this series vary in length from 1.5 days to 4 days for a total of 7 days.

This series is part of the Executing Change Certificate

AUDIENCE:

People who lead:

• Departments
• Divisions
• Project teams
• Change initiatives
• Strategic initiatives – like business architects
• Process improvement projects
• Continuous improvement efforts

After completing this series, participants will be able to:

1. Build a business case for change
   • Explain the linkage between an organization’s strategy and change initiative and the role of the business case
   • Complete the non-financial sections of a business case and support the preparation of the financial analysis
   • Convert the intangible benefits of a change initiative into tangible, quantitative benefits and use them in the business case
   • Recognize the application of the principals of good data presentation
   • Identify crucial success factors and risk for a change initiative
2. Identify risks and opportunities that come with change initiatives
   • Explain the sources and types of risk and opportunity
   • Identify risks and opportunities in a given situation using several methods
   • Analyze the impact and likelihood of uncertainty on the situation’s objectives
   • Apply effective responses to each risk and create immediate or contingent action plans to deal with them
   • Evaluate the effectiveness of various risk responses on the situation’s objectives
   • Describe the rationale and method for continuous risk monitoring
3. Integrate the right facilitation tool for stakeholder input on change initiatives
   • Analyze situations and audience to choose the correct facilitation tools
   • Understand techniques to gather information
   • Engage participants in constructive group discussions to evaluate situations and problem solve
   • Use tools to prevent meeting sabotage