Course Prospectus
Overview
Why Attend
This Leading and Managing Change' course is the ideal place to introduce participants and the organizations they represent to the topics of change and change management. Attendees will benefit greatly from a course designed to provide valuable insight into what has become a valid preoccupation by all companies.
Course Methodology
Leading and managing change relies on analyzing real life business change situations and initiatives. Participants will get the opportunity to apply knowledge and techniques acquired and discussed throughout the course. They will listen to leading experts on change, synthesize their valuable insight, and use all their newly acquired skills to develop and present projects on change and change management. Change readiness assessments, team exercises, individual exercises, and case studies will be used throughout the course all of which are part of a well-designed framework that attendees can apply immediately as a best practice when dealing with change in their work environment.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the leadership and management perspective on 'change'
- Analyze change and develop strategies and plans to deal with it
- Manage resistance to change and recognize the strong emotions associated with it
- Discuss and design communication strategies to accelerate change
Target Audience
Change managers, business process improvement specialists, change management team members, coordinators of reorganization and mergers, implementers of organizational change, and all business professionals interested in learning how to deal and manage change on organizational and personal levels.
Target Competencies
- Assessing change intensity
- Planning for change
- Implementing change plans
- Leading and managing teams
- Managing conflicts
- Emotional intelligence
- Communicating change
- Evaluating cost associated with change
Course Outline
- Understanding, planning and managing change
- Change and change management
- Defining organizational change
- Topology of organizational change
- Change agents and change
- Change and stakeholder’s analysis
- Models and strategies for managing and leading change
- Leadership and organizational change
- Management adaptation to change situation
- Evaluating the need for change
- Preparing and planning for change
- Kotter’s eight step model
- Managing resistance to change
- People and change
- Why people resist change?
- Forms of resistance and how to deal with them
- Individual factors versus group factors
- Stages people go through when resisting change - The ‘SARAH’ Model
- Strategies to deal with resistance to change
- Risk associated with change
- Identifying, estimating, managing and reviewing risk
- The risk-impact probability chart
- People and change
- Communicating change
- The importance of communicating change
- What people want to hear and what they need to see
- Elements of a change communication plan
- Dos and don’ts when communicating change
- Communicating change in a transforming culture
Schedule & Fees
2026 Schedule & Fees
| Dates | City | Language | Fees | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 - 12 Nov, 2026 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 8 - 12 Nov, 2026 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 13 - 17 Dec, 2026 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 13 - 17 Dec, 2026 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant |
2027 Schedule & Fees
| Dates | City | Language | Fees | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 - 11 Feb, 2027 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 7 - 11 Feb, 2027 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 14 - 18 Mar, 2027 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 14 - 18 Mar, 2027 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 9 - 13 May, 2027 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 9 - 13 May, 2027 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 13 - 17 Jun, 2027 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 13 - 17 Jun, 2027 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 8 - 12 Aug, 2027 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 8 - 12 Aug, 2027 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 12 - 16 Sep, 2027 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 12 - 16 Sep, 2027 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 7 - 11 Nov, 2027 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 7 - 11 Nov, 2027 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 12 - 16 Dec, 2027 | English | USD 3,400 Per participant | ||
| 12 - 16 Dec, 2027 | Arabic | USD 3,400 Per participant |
