Embracing and Driving Change
In a world where change is becoming an essential part of improving our processes it’s important to know how to anticipate, embrace and talk about it. Discover how to effectively get ready for change as well as how to use it as a strategic tool to help you exploit opportunities.
£100 +VAT
Embracing and Driving Change
£100 +VAT
Embracing and Driving Change
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This course will enable you to
- Use key strategies to establish yourself as a trusted advisor when initiating change.
- Explore best practice for effective change communication and consider the value of transparency, authenticity, and two-way communication.
- Understand how to anticipate and embrace change as a route to exploiting opportunities.
- Recognise how different people react to change and how it impacts them.
- Effectively monitor the success of change initiatives and how to stay “change-ready”.
- Think about how to sustain new ways of working to make change stick.
About the course
Change is an inevitable part of our lives and work as accountants and finance professionals. It allows you to grow and expand your perceptions, beliefs, and performance; evolving into anything that a company needs help with.
From looking at how change impacts us, to how to adopt new technologies and processes, this course explores how you can recognise change as an opportunity for business and personal growth. With the right changes, productivity and efficiency will increase, and it can be used as a strategic tool to help you exploit those opportunities and consider what the future of your own profession might look like. Discover how to celebrate change, how adopting an agile work culture can be beneficial and how to select the most appropriate communication messages to use.
Contents
Our changing world
Why should we care about change?
Understanding change
Becoming a trusted advisor
Key factors for influencing change
How change impacts us
How does change impact people?
Change as a form of loss
Developing personal resilience
Cultural attitudes to change
Navigating conflict and change
Anticipating and embracing change
Change as an opportunity
Using strategic tools
Scanning the future
Spotting opportunities
Making decisions about change
Driving change
Change management vs project management
Developing a vision
Making a cup of tea
Talking about change
The importance of context
Effective change communication
Positive messaging
Thinking about timing
The power of persuasion
Sustaining change
Making change stick
Living with uncertainty and complexity
Monitoring and evaluating success
Tips to stay change-ready
How it works
Author
Anna Faherty
Writer, lecturer and consultant working across the publishing, museum and charity sectors.
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