Opleiding: APMG Change Management Practitioner - Including Exam [CMP]

OVERVIEW

This Change Management Practitioner course (developed in collaboration with the Change Management Institute) is designed to help organizations and their people manage the impact of change and provide techniques to effectively plan and implement successful transformation initiatives.

Based on the Effective Change Manager's Handbook - aligned to the Institute's Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK) - courses explore how change affects, and is affected by, individuals, teams, organizations and change leaders, equipping individuals with the knowledge, theories and techniques to:

• Unlock resistance to change
• Provide effective support and motivation to individuals and teams to embrace change
• Draw from a range of professional approaches to implement change smoothly and effectively
• Manage and inform key stakeholders throughout the change process
• Speed up the implementation of change initiatives.

OBJECTIVES

• Applying appropriate process frameworks to optimally plan and understand organizational change.
• A range of organization paradigms with which to understand, support and sustain organizational change processes.
• How to properly prepare for an organizational change initiative - such as building an effective change team and offering insights which enhance the team's performance.
• Preparing people for organizational change.
• How to be motivational in ways that's empathetic towards peoples' roles and personalities.
• How to establish a clear framework of roles, skills and activities through which leaders can support and sustain the change process.

AUDIENCE

Aspiring or current managers of organizational change, transition or transformation.

Those performing key roles in the design, development and delivery of of organizational change programmes, including:

• Change Project Managers
• Transformation Managers
• Senior Responsible Owners
• Business Change Managers
• Change Programme Managers
• Operational Line Managers

CERTIFICATION

• Objective testing based on a case study scenario
• 4 questions of 20 marks each
• 40 marks required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
• 2.5 hours duration
• Restricted open book – The Effective Change Manager’s Handbook may be used in the exam

CONTENT

• How the process of organizational change or transformation occurs.
• The roles needed to assemble teams most likely to achieve successful organizational change.
• How people react to organizational change and how to help them adapt.
• Developing strategies to keep people motivated while an organization undergoes change. 
• The different types of change process e.g. planned and emergent change.
• How to keep stakeholders engaged while an organization undergoes change.