The need to manage change successfully is more common and more important for a leader’s career than ever, and a specific roadmap for managing change is essential. In this course, instructor Scott Mautz gives you a playbook—a powerful, step-by-step approach to managing change, drawing from and building on key elements of change management models in practice today. Scott begins with a brief introduction to the field of change management and dives into the truths of leading change. He discusses how to conduct a change readiness assessment, then goes into the specific change management phases that follow. Scott details key steps and considerations of each phase, as well as what barriers to expect and overcome. He concludes with how to build a change action plan (CAP).

If there’s one thing you can always rely on, it’s change. And while change has its many pros and cons, it can be harder to navigate when you’re the one having to embrace the change as opposed to initiating it. In this quick course from change management expert Dr. Eric Zackrison, learn how to go with the flow and wield organizational change to your advantage. Gain strategies for how to adapt quickly, tips on what is and isn’t in your control, and advice for how to show your bosses that you are a can-do, make-it-happen team player.

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Change can be complicated and nuanced, but the best way to manage it is with simple and straightforward leadership. When you keep your team involved and set realistic expectations, you’ll be set up to make your change positive and long lasting. In this quick course from change management expert Dr. Eric Zackrison, learn the five best practices for how to guide your teams and organizations through change.

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Developing a change plan is one of the pinnacles of a change management effort. The process is often seen as a lengthy and time-consuming experience. How can you consolidate all the effort and requirements down to one page containing all the necessary details of your change plan? Change expert Christina Charenkova introduces you to the process of creating your change plan on a page. She guides you through what information to include, and how you can use the change plan when it is complete. Christina shows you how to iterate and refine your plan on a page, so that your change plan remains relevant and efficient, by incorporating regular checkpoints in the overall project timeline. She concludes by sharing with you change plan on a page templates and some other resources to ease your change management journey.

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Enabling new ways of working or doing is one of the most vital steps in a successful business transformation. But a failure to establish standards for change integrity could jeopardize this transition. Change advisor Christina Charenkova describes the practical steps and activities that need to happen during a change management execution effort. She explains the information captured with a change impact analysis, then shows you how to verify the business impacts and ensure that new impacts are documented and reviewed. She covers how to identify stakeholders opposing the change and define strategies to mitigate their resistance to change. Christina challenges you to identify further change activities, then shares a possible solution. Christina goes over ways you can ease pain points and make the transition easier, then discusses the need for developing a growth mindset when it comes to business transformation.

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Your project success depends on your ability to plan and manage change. Instructor Christina Charenkova takes you through practical examples of how to create change plans for transformation projects, irrespective of the project or change methodology. Christina explains how to make it easy for people to change, then shows you how to plan a change management effort using techniques such as building a case for change, stakeholder analysis, change impact assessment, communications plan, and change alignment. To help you put your new skills to the test, she includes a challenge inviting you to apply a technique to craft a case for change and interpret the change information shared in a case study. Christina then steps through developing a change management plan that takes impacted stakeholders from their current state to the future ways of working. She concludes by offering you some resources and other materials linked to change management.

Note: This course was created by Christina Charenkova. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

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