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Organizational Change Management Series
Learn how to best manage change within your organizationPreview the first lesson free — get full access to all 18 lessons.
Intermediate Provider : Rhonda Tenenbaum 5 chapters · 18 Lessons · 56m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Course Description
As a manager, it’s important to know how to manage major changes within your organization. You may need to help your company change how operations are run. Or, you may need to modify them in order to keep up with your industry rivals, or perhaps you have to remove some of your company’s products from the market. Whatever the case may be, you’ll want to be prepared for the unexpected.
This course will teach you the practical applications for the methods of creating and maintaining organizational change. You’ll learn how to overcome the various challenges that may present themselves when a change occurs. Additionally, you’ll explore the key change categories and what makes each of them unique from one another. And, you’ll go over the different kinds of goals that you are recommended to set for yourself in order to make sure that the change process runs as smoothly as possible, and to the greatest benefit.
What You'll Learn
- Understand how organizational change occurs and the dynamics that drive it
- Develop a change management strategy and align the right processes with your plan
- Identify the key types of change, including adaptive, transitional, and transformational change
- Set the different kinds of goals recommended to keep the change process running smoothly
- Address internal and external influencers while navigating employee resistance
- Recognize and overcome transformation failures and communicate an organization-wide vision
Key Takeaways
- Managers need to know how to manage major changes within their organization, whether changing operations, keeping up with rivals, or removing products from the market.
- Organizational change has inherent challenges that managers should be prepared to overcome when a change occurs.
- There are key change categories, including adaptive, transitional, and transformational change, each unique from one another.
- Setting the recommended kinds of goals helps ensure the change process runs as smoothly and beneficially as possible.
- Staying agile and open, educating teams from top to bottom, and engaging different constituencies support future success.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is aimed at managers who need to know how to manage major changes within their organization, such as changing how operations are run, keeping up with industry rivals, or removing products from the market.
What does this course cover?
It covers the practical applications for creating and maintaining organizational change, how to overcome the challenges that arise when change occurs, the key change categories and what makes each unique, and the different kinds of goals recommended for a smooth change process.
What types of change will I learn about?
You will learn about adaptive change for minor organizational modifications, as well as transitional and transformational change.
What skills does this course build?
It builds skills in change advisory, change management, change management planning, IT change management, organizational change management, and organizational culture change.
How is the course structured?
It is delivered as a series of lessons that progress from understanding the dynamics of change and developing a strategy to addressing internal and external influencers, navigating employee resistance, and communicating an organization-wide vision, with several Test Your Knowledge checkpoints and a concluding lesson.
