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Change Management: Change Influencer

From delivering the plan to being heard on the decision.

Change ManagementSome experience
Length2 days, about 12 hours
FormatLive online or on site
Group sizeUp to 16 per trainer
LevelSome experience

Why take this course

Many experienced change practitioners are asked for documents when they could be shaping decisions. This course builds the presence, influence and business sense to be heard by senior leaders, and shows how to turn your impact assessments into a case they can act on.

What you will be able to do

To help you influence the decisions that shape a change, using our UPELO™ method. By the end, you will be able to:

  • Speak with a credible, consistent voice in senior meetings.
  • Work out what each leader cares about, and build allies before you need them.
  • Turn an impact assessment into a short business case covering benefits, risk and value.
  • Use questions and framing that lower defensiveness and move people forward.
  • Stay calm under pressure, and raise and escalate risk early with confidence and tact.
  • See how people, process and incentives interact, and plan adoption and handover that last.

What you will cover

  1. 1

    Presence in the room

    Day 1 · Understand. Show up as a credible voice in senior meetings: prepare, speak plainly, and be known for useful, well-judged contributions.

  2. 2

    Stakeholder influence

    Day 1 · Understand. Read who holds power and who is affected, learn what each leader cares about (cost, risk and results), and build allies before you need them.

  3. 3

    The business case for change

    Day 1 to 2 · Plan. Turn impact assessments into a clear story with evidence: benefits, risk and value, so leaders can decide quickly.

  4. 4

    Conversations that move people

    Day 2 · Equip. Questions, framing and listening that lower defensiveness, and how to coach managers and champions through hard conversations.

  5. 5

    Staying steady under pressure

    Day 2 · Launch. Stay calm when a change is going wrong, set healthy boundaries, and raise and escalate risk early with tact.

  6. 6

    Seeing the system, owning the result

    Day 2 · Own. See how people, process and incentives interact, spot dependencies and change overload, and plan adoption and handover. Ends with a review clinic on your own work.

This covers the topics a practitioner-level change course is expected to: theory and models, impact and stakeholder analysis, planning, communications, training and support, readiness, resistance, adoption and sustainment. It is our own course and is not an accredited qualification.

Course details

Who it is for
Experienced change, HR, project and transformation practitioners, and consultants, who want to be recognised as strategic voices and influence senior decisions.
Before you start
Change Essentials, or some experience of leading or supporting change.
Length
2 days (about 12 hours of live learning), plus about 1 hour of pre-reading.
Where and how
Live on Teams or Zoom over two consecutive days, or at your site. Each course is delivered in-house for your organisation, and we agree group size with you (up to 16 learners per trainer; up to 25 in person with a second facilitator).
When
We run each course when a larger group in your organisation wants it, and schedule it to suit you. There are no fixed public dates, and we do not run courses for small numbers or individuals.
Assessment
A case-study exercise on day 2, with written feedback.Please noteThis is our own course and is not a Prosci or APMG certification.

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