Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Change Management

The Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Change Management aims to enable the learner to understand and apply the management styles and behaviour that are proven to be successful in bringing organizational change.

The learner will be equipped with models and tools of change management such as the John Kotter’s model for change management and will be able to analyze the importance of interdepartmental liaison for successful elimination of change resistance and successfully achieving the implementation of the proposed change.

Learning Outcomes

After the successful completion of the certificate, the student will be able to:

• Understand the role of the change agent in successful change management
• Discuss the characteristics required to be a successful Change Agent
• Discuss the procedural steps a change agent may adopt to reduce uncertainty the change may cause and to realise a successful change
• Identify and engage pertinent stakeholders necessary for change to be successful.
• Understand change and the difficulties surrounding it.
• Understand tools, concepts and models to understand, plan and initiate change processes.
• Realize the criticisms concerning change theories and tools.
• Understand Kotter’s change model.
• Understand how to apply it to real-life scenarios and contemporary cases.
• Understand the building blocks for effective change management processes.
• Understand key concepts in change management
• Critically analyze the role of various business functions/departments within change management.
• Develop and evaluate an integrated change management plan for an organization