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| TIME: 09:00 to 17:00 GMT |
This APMG Change Management Foundation level qualification is Ideal for staff and teams involved in Change Management; those leading or about to lead and manage a change programme and seeking the Foundation qualification.
This APMG Change Management Foundation qualification is offered by IPSO FACTO an APMG accredited training provider. The course deals with the theories of how change impacts on and is affected by the individual, team, organisation and change leader.
This qualification complements other project management frameworks on our schedule, and covers principles, theories and guidance on organisational change management. The course gives a solid platform for clear best practice thinking and the application of useful tools and techniques for achieving successful change.
The APMG Change Management Foundation qualification is aiming to measure whether a candidate would be able to act as an informed member of a change management team within an environment supporting the Change Management approaches.
Studying Change Management will:
• Help you understand how you react to change
• Allow you to assist those around you as they go through change
• Make you think about your team and its effectiveness in a different light
• Give you powerful insight into how your organisation functions and reacts during change
• Equip you to lead more effectively and sympathetically
This APMG Change Management Foundation course is based on the book by Esther Cameron and Mike Green, “Making Sense of Change Management – 3rd Edition”, supplemented by the APMG Practitioner Handbook covering additional change management practitioner tools and techniques.
The course focuses on the effects of change in four key areas, individual, team, organisation and change leaders. Its an intense course that requires delegates to prepare thoroughly and involves evening study. Training starts at 09:00 each day with breaks throughout, and finishes between 4:30 to 5:00pm. The course is structured but information with many discussion points and challenges.
This course is ideal for: staff and teams involved in Change Management; those leading or about to lead and manage a change programme; those seeking the Foundation and Practitioner qualification; team members being effected by or effecting change; individuals who will need to support their colleagues, team and organisation through change, and manage themselves through change.
This foundation qualification is covers the first 3 days of the 4 day Practitioner course. There is a mixture of input and practical sessions, delivered by an approved trainer with practical experience of change management. Delegates should spend approximately 4-6 hours studying this pre-course material in order to be well prepared for the course.
Foundation: 40 minutes, closed book, 50 multiple-choice questions. 25 out of 50 questions = 50% to pass.
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The Foundation exam will normally take place in the afternoon of day 3. Exact times will be organised with the trainer.
You will be sent an exam invitation from APMG for you to take the exam online. Your trainer will act as the invigilator for the exam and you will get a provisional result on completion.
To gain a formal APMG Change Management Foundation Qualification.
By the end of each course you will be in a position to:
The opening day sets the scene, context and structure for the change management course. Each session includes interactive group working activities and application of delegate’s learning to the case study. First up is the research into change programmes – when change goes wrong and when change goes right.
The next session gets into gear by examining Individuals and Change, starting with Learning Styles and Preferences. To illustrate. Delegates will be asked to apply their learning to a simple change scenario, to explore how different styles and preferences influence an individual’s response. A particular focus is Cameron and Green’s thoughts and ideas about the Four Psychological Approaches to Change, in which we examine Behavioural, Cognitive, Psychodynamic and Humanistic approaches.
Further topics discussed include Helping Others to Change and Personality and Change. Again, by applying their learning to a simple scenario, Delegates will explore how these different perspectives can affect and influence individual’s responses during change. The importance of effective and flexible approaches to communications during times of change is also highlighted. Finally, we look at Schein’s Transformative Change Model and consider the resisting forces at work when change happens.
After a Day 1 debrief, the second day continues with the topic of Teams and Change, where we look initially at the Nature of a Team, Team Effectiveness and Behaviours. A particular focus will be on Glaser and Glaser’s Effective Team profile, together with Tuckman’s Team Development stages. Delegates will work together in teams to explore different aspects of teams and change, including applying their learning using briefings on project work underway in the case study scenario and to demonstrate effective team leadership.
Day 2 continues with the topic of Organizations and Change with a briefing session on how organisations really work when delegates explore Morgan’s Metaphors before assessing the metaphors that are at work or would benefit the organization in the case study. Further sessions explore Models of and Approaches to Organizational Change.
After a Day 2 debrief, the third day turns attention to Leadership and Change, with discussion of Leaderships Styles and Emotional Competencies. Leadership and change, looking at:
• Leadership for different phases of change
• Leadership roles in the change process
All the course sessions will be completed by early afternoon on Day 3 so that attention can switch to final preparation of delegates for the Foundation Examination (1 hour).
APMG Change Management Foundation
