About ASPM.
The Africa School of Project Management (ASPM) was established in the year 2000 in Kenya as a membership based proffesional management organisation. The school was formed to address capacity building needs among development partners, donor organizations, Government agencies, International and private sector firms in Africa.
The school has been pivotal in capacity building in South Sudan, South Africa, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Somalia,Liberia,The Gambia, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda. The school has trained over 12,000 staffs who are involved in different projects and also conducted surveys, evaluations and research in different projects and businesses in Africa.
Learning Outcomes.
•Describe in general terms a number of change management theories and how they might apply in practice.
•Articulate what change management is and why it is important in the contemporary business environment.
•Appreciate performance management tools
•Discriminate between different types of change process for different purposes and outcomes.
•Explain how to effectively manage the human aspects of change such as employee engagement in the change process and how to reduce employee resistance to change.
•Highlight particular external issues impacting on a businesses’ need to change.
•Identify the steps in putting together an effective change management plan.
•Apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to the analysis and resolution of change problems as presented in case studies
**Key Modules**
•Introduction to change concepts
•Understanding behavior change challenges
•Ego defenses and creating change
•Dutchman’s 3R Change Model
•Strategic renewal: incremental and transformational
•Effecting change at Grand Union
•Employee behavior
•Triggers for change
•Kurt Lewin and organizational change
•Organizational development and effectiveness
•Resistance to change
•Organizational diagnosis
•Organizational dialogue and organizational silence
•Communicating change to stakeholders
•Communications strategy and measures of justice
•Communicating bad news to stakeholders
•Managing personal transitions
•The Social Readjustment Ratings Scale
•Change Transition Model
•Stages of psychological reaction to change
•Facilitating employee change transitions
•5 change intervention styles
•Effective helping behaviors
•Orbit Newspapers case review
•Economic and OD transformation strategies
•Change at the BBC
•Beer’s combined OD/Economic strategy
•Overcoming executive resistance to OD change strategies]
•Planning for change implementation
•Appointing a transition manager
•Identifying what must be done
•Develop an implementation plan
•Using multiple leverage points to effect change
•Scheduling change activities
•Rewarding transition behaviors
•Developing feedback mechanisms
•Chronological theory of change intervention approaches
•Issue-focused approach to change intervention
•Human Resource and Human Process interventions
•Techno structural and Economic interventions
•Selecting appropriate interventions
•Identifying diagnosed issue, level and depth of change
•Applied models for intervening
•Time and efficacy constraints on change interventions
•Collective learning
•Knowledge transfer
•Intra and Inter organizational learning barriers
•Action Research at Google and Xerox
•Appreciative Inquiry
•Business Process Reengineering
•Sustainability: making change last
•Force Field Theory and helping change stick
•10 barriers and 10 solutions to sustainability at the NHS
•Spreading change across the organization
•Putting it all together: Case review
Fee information:
The tuition fee is US D 980 , (Exclusive VAT).
This caters for;
• Six hours training every day
• Training materials on soft / hard copy or both
• Certificate
• Meals-Tea at 10Am, Lunch, Tea at 4pm
• One Tour or visit to our National parks/Zoo
• Airport transfer.
How to Register.
Kindly drop us mail at [email protected] or apply through the online form…
http://www.aspm.co.ke/index.php/online-application1
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