Change Management: Change Strategy and Leadership

Why take this programme

When an organisation has many changes under way, someone has to decide what to change, in what order, and how much people can take. This programme is for the people who make those calls. You work through it at your own pace, then bring real problems to a small live group for a year.

What you will be able to do

To help you lead change at organisation level. By the end, you will be able to:

• Link a change portfolio to the organisation's strategy, and say no to change that does not fit.
• Build and coach a sponsor group that actually sponsors.
• Write a change strategy and roadmap that a leadership team will approve.
• Handle resistance and change fatigue in managers and teams without escalating.
• Plan the people side of digital and AI enabled change.
• Show the business what the change delivered, using measures it trusts.

What you will cover

1. 1

   Change and the organisation's strategy

   About 90 minutes. Connect a change portfolio to strategy, judge how much change the organisation can absorb, and write a case for change a senior leader will read.

2. 2

   Sponsors, stakeholders and influence

   About 90 minutes. Map the people who matter, coach a busy sponsor on what the role needs, and prepare the difficult conversation. Includes a marked task.

3. 3

   Designing the change strategy

   About 90 minutes. Choose an approach, build a roadmap with its dependencies, and set up governance a leadership team will keep to. Includes a marked task.

4. 4

   Resistance, fatigue and the manager's role

   About 90 minutes. Find the real cause of resistance, respond to it, and equip middle managers to carry the change rather than relay it.

5. 5

   Digital, system and AI enabled change

   About 90 minutes. Plan readiness, champions and support so a system or AI tool is used, not just switched on. Includes a marked task.

6. 6

   Measuring, sustaining and leading

   About 90 minutes. Choose measures leaders trust, plan the handover, and set out your own next steps. Ends with a short portfolio piece.

It builds on Change Essentials and goes further on strategy, sponsors, resistance and measures. It is our own programme and is not an accredited qualification.

Live group coaching

Six 60 minute sessions on Zoom, one every other month, recorded for anyone who misses one. Each has the same shape: wins and problems since last time, the theme, then live cases brought by learners. A session still runs if only one or two people join.

• Start, strategy and portfolio
• Sponsors and stakeholders
• Designing the strategy
• Resistance, fatigue and digital change
• Measuring, sustaining and difficult conversations
• Live case clinic and review

Programme details

Who it is for

Heads of change, senior change managers, transformation and programme office leads, and HR or organisation development leaders, who decide how change is planned and led across an organisation.

Before you start

Change Essentials, or experience of leading change. Bring a real change from your own organisation to work on.

Length

Six on demand modules of about 90 minutes each (about 9 hours), open from the day you enrol, plus six 60 minute live coaching sessions, one every other month, over 12 months of access.

Where and how

Modules are online and self paced. Coaching is live on Zoom, in a group of up to 12 to 15 learners.

When

Start any time. You begin the modules the day you enrol and join the next live session.

Assessment

Three marked tasks (modules 2, 3 and 5) and a short final portfolio piece, each marked pass or resubmit with written feedback within ten working days. Two practice tasks (modules 1 and 4) get short written feedback. Pass the six quizzes and the marked work to earn our digital badge and certificate.&Please noteThis is our own programme and is not a Prosci or APMG certification.

Price

£1,495 per person, before VAT. Self funded learners can claim 30% off. Teams of 5 to 9 pay 15% less each, and teams of 10 or more pay 25% less each.