Why Do We Need Change Management Leadership Training?
Change is an inevitable part of business. In many cases, if you’re not changing, you’re not growing.
However, large-scale changes can cause anxiety, frustration, and fear for members of your team, especially if they don’t know the best way forward yet. Having empathy for these responses and being intentional about your approach is the easiest way to navigate change.
This change leadership training program provides a baseline understanding of effective change management. It provides a specific process for creating and managing a change plan, as well as templates you can use for future change initiatives of any size.
Leading Change is available at the Frontline Training Solutions training center in Grand Rapids, MI. It’s also available as a virtual training or an on-site course anywhere in the country.
Who is it for?
This change leadership training course is for anyone involved with leading, planning, or executing major change initiatives in their organization. Anyone in your organization, including teams, project managers, leadership, and individual contributors, can benefit from it.
No matter your organization’s structure or industry, this course will show you the best ways to implement and execute a change plan, plus how to follow through after you’ve begun implementing them.
What This Course Covers
Articulating a Business Case
You’ll learn how to articulate an intentional, effective business case for how you’ll guide your team through upcoming changes.
Understanding Responses to Change
Each person on your team has a different psychological and emotional response to change. This training will help you take a deeper dive into those responses so you’re more aware of them and know how to manage them.
Relationships Between Change & Culture
You will explore the relationship between your organization’s culture and its responses to change, plus how they can benefit each other.
Managing Change Effectively
This training will equip you with a roadmap to manage change within your organization.
Developing a Proactive Plan
During the course, you will develop a plan to initiate and implement the changes your organization is facing.
Planning Next Steps
Every plan for change needs to begin with the end in mind. This course will teach you how to plan next steps and ensure that your team can follow through with your change management approach.
Benefits of This Change Leadership Course
There are many benefits to the Leading Change course, such as:
This change management leadership training course is designed to be a workshop that focuses on your organization’s current change initiatives, so you can focus on applying the principles you learn in real time once you’ve completed it.
HRCI
This training offers 7 credits
SHRM
This training offers 7 credits
Program Details and Registration
In Person Training Program Details
Enrollment for this course is limited to 20 participants so everyone has a chance to participate and interact during the session.
This training includes:
- 7 hours of training and activities
- A training workbook
- Templates and tools you can bring back to your company after the training is done
- Continental breakfast, boxed lunch, snacks, and drinks included
- One 7-hour session either at the Frontline Training Solutions training center in Grand Rapids, MI, or on-site at your company
Location: 1760 44th Street SW, Suite 10, Grand Rapids, MI 49519
Before the course, you will be asked to complete some pre-work, which includes reading an article and identifying a change initiative in your own organization that you will focus on throughout the course.
Virtual Training Program Details
Virtual training takes place over a Zoom meeting. Class sizes are limited to 20 participants so that interaction and learning are maximized. Once registered, participants will receive details on how to join the Zoom meeting.
This training includes:
- 9 hours of training and activities
- Training workbook, templates, and tools
Format: Three 3-hour sessions delivered virtually over three weeks.
Online Platform: Zoom.us
For Participation You Will Need:
- A computer, laptop, iPad, or smart phone
- Internet access
Before the course, you will be asked to complete some pre-work, which includes reading an article and identifying a change initiative in your own organization that you will focus on throughout the course.
Custom Solutions
Receive Customized Training
We offer customized training, both in person and virtual, for teams across the country. If you’d like a customized training on Leading Change for your team, contact us today.
Training Reviews
Due to ongoing transformation within our organization, I was looking for guidance on how to best manage through the changes. The Leading Change class through Express Employment Professionals gave me a practical foundation I could apply immediately and going forward as our organization evolves. The course was relevant for any company size, industry, and environment and the interactive approach allowed opportunity for attendees to share relevant experiences. I would highly recommend this course for to all professionals who will play a role in a change initiative for their organization.
Amy W, HR Manager
Montage Furniture Services
Here at the mission we dealing with a big change, not only physically but systematically as well. Doing a training like this would really help me out during this change but dealing with change that’s inevitable in the future. It has made me look at change from a different lens. I really am in to the phycology part of my job and to know how change affects you emotionally and how to deal with that really help me understand how to implement and deal with change. Yes I would highly recommend this training due to a lot of companies going on this trend with change so frequently. This training will help you in management on how to implement change and what it does for not only you but people on your team and beyond.
DeMaceo L, Track Case Manager
Mel Trotter Ministries
I recently attended the training on Leading Change. I was excited to attend this course because I had been promoted to a new position that came with the responsibility of changing the culture and effectively communicating our new culture into this line of business. Nathan provided a course outline and worksheet prior to the course which allowed us to prepare for the material and instruction in the course. This allowed everyone to come prepared for excellent discussion around leading change in their roles. The personal impact of this course for me was that it allowed me to prepare for the change, set a clear expectation for my stakeholders and the importance of communication. I would highly recommend this course to anyone that enjoys continuing education and filling your professional toolbox. Even if you have help facilitate change in your current role, this course will benefit you by providing clear direction and a road map to success while leading change.
Betsy T, Operations Manager - Procurement
Montage Furniture Services
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Someone in business once said, “If you don’t manage the change in your organization, the change will manage you.” Many organizations fail to consider the human impact of changes, which some studies indicate results in a nearly 66% failure rate. Increasing a focus on the impact of change will increase the likelihood that projects are successful.
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