Change Management for Projects Course: Core Skills

Project Management. Take the lead.

Learn the basics of change management and gain practical experience with planning and implementing change.

This practical change management course will show you how to develop a change plan, select an appropriate change model, and apply the model to case studies and real-life scenarios. You will also learn to post-evaluate to take corrective action where necessary to refine and reinforce the change process.

This non-award course is delivered in conjunction with the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Engineering and IT’s Project Management Program.

Participants of this workshop are eligible to apply for up to 7 PDU points directly with relevant external parties.

Aims

This course aims to introduce you to a range of change management models and provide first-hand, practical experience with planning and implementing change in projects and as part of your everyday work.

Outcomes

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

• support and lead others through the change management curve
• define, plan and implement a change initiative
• measure change readiness and the effectiveness of change
• develop skills to persuade and influence others, have difficult conversations and drive a positive culture within your team
• describe the psychology of change, change fatigue, organisational culture and different models and approaches to change management.

Content

Why change?

• What makes culture and change important?
• The psychology of change
• Models of leading change

Plan and implement change

• Change and communications plan
• Change readiness and effectiveness assessment
• Strategies and interventions to deliver change, including a training needs analysis, training plan and coaching plan

Develop your change toolkit

• Challenging and constructive conversations to effectively deliver change on the ground
• Emotional self-regulation
• Personality traits and learning styles
• Leading change, for e.g. being the change you want to see
• Positive psychology interventions including reflective practice

Change models

• The human factors that make change so difficult (Kubler Ross change curve)

Intended audience

This course is suitable for anyone involved in managing a change process, whether this be on an organisational-wide level or within a team setting. In particular, the course is designed for:

• Change Managers
• Team Leaders
• HR Advisors and Managers
• Project Managers
• Project Coordinators
• Communication Advisors and Managers
• Change Champions
• Executive Officers
• the ‘accidental’ change manager
• anyone in a position involved in change management.

Prerequisites

None

Delivery style

This one-day course focuses on experiential learning. Content is broken into 10-15 minute blocks and immediately followed by group activities where the theory is put into action.

A range of interactive methods will be used including:

• storytelling and the use of professional examples to exhibit concepts
• self-reflection and group discussions
• case studies where the concepts are actively applied
• individual and team activities and presentations
• suggested readings for after training.

Materials

You will receive:

• course materials with case study activities and sample templates for your toolkit
• a Statement of Completion indicating eligibility for PDUs (points/contact hours).