Learn strategies for managing change effectively, including understanding the change process and dealing with resistance to change.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• List the steps necessary for preparing a change strategy and building support for the change
• Describe the WIFM – the individual motivators for change
• Use needed components to develop change management and communications plans, and to list implementation strategies
• Employ strategies for gathering data, addressing concerns and issues, evaluating options and adapting a change direction
• Utilize methods for leading change project status meetings, celebrating a successful change implementation, and sharing the results and benefits
• Describe the four states of Appreciative Inquiry and its purposes
• Use strategies for aligning people with a change, appealing to emotions and facts
• Describe the importance of resiliency in the context of change, and employ strategies the change leader and individual change participant can use to foster resiliency
• Explain the importance of flexibility in the context of change, and demonstrate methods the change leader and individual change participant can use to promote flexibility

SHRM PDCs: 12
Intended Audience: All