Strong focus on assessment.

• Learn how to evaluate an organization’s current state, readiness for change, and the potential impacts on internal and external stakeholders.

Practical stakeholder analysis.

• Develop a clearer understanding of how to identify impacted stakeholders, anticipate likely responses, and use stakeholder analysis to support planning.

Structured planning tools.

• Explore how to evaluate and mitigate risks and complexities through approaches such as scenario planning, impact scoring, and readiness assessments.

Strategy development in context.

• Identify the components of a Change Management Strategy and Approach Template and understand the workstreams that shape an effective strategy.

Impact on your organization, team or business:

• Improve planning quality by assessing readiness, impacts, risks, and stakeholder needs before implementation begins.
• Reduce disruption by identifying likely responses to change early and building more informed mitigation strategies.
• Strengthen alignment by creating change strategies that connect organizational goals, stakeholder realities, and practical delivery workstreams.
• Support longer-term outcomes by incorporating sustainment thinking and success measures into the planning process.

Change Management Assessing and Planning is structured across four progressive modules, each module building on the last. You will engage with practical tools, structured analysis, and applied activities designed to help you assess change more effectively and develop a clear strategy and approach.

Module 1

The Change Process

• How change aligns with strategic planning and organizational culture.
• Critical success factors for organizational change.
• Identifying impacted stakeholders and anticipating their responses.

Module 2

The Change Impact Assessment

• Evaluating the organization’s current state and readiness for change.
• Identifying who and what will be affected by the change.
• Using structured tools and stakeholder analysis to conduct the assessment effectively.

Module 3

The Change Management Strategy and Approach

• Bringing together assessment and impact results to develop the Change Management Strategy.
• Outlining the approach for managing the transition.
• Defining the core change management workstreams within the strategy.

Module 4

Measuring Success and Sustainment

• Sustaining change and reinforcing adoption over time.
• Exploring adoption metrics and mechanisms to track progress.
• Securing leadership support and stakeholder buy-in to gain endorsement for the strategy.

Curriculum may be subject to change.