This should help you to analyse different types of change and identify the impact that each type of change may have.

Target Audience

• Appointed team leaders or supervisors
• Anybody wanting to develop a particular management skill

All managers who are newly  promoted, recruited or have been in their job for some time but have no formal training.  It is also suitable for technical staff looking to broaded their role with the organisation.

Objectives

• Describe how both internal and external pressures on your organisation can lead to change
• Identify future changes which need to take place in your department or section
• Establish priorities for these changes
• Assess the extent to which your organisation encourages innovation and responds to change
• Identify change agents in your organisation
• Analyse your responses to change
• Analyse the forces for and against a proposed change in your own department
• Identify reasons for, and source of, resistance to change
• Suggest ways of overcoming resistance to change
• Assess the costs and benefits of top-down and bottom-up planning for change
• Identify the need for a structured approach to planning change
• Identify the benefits of consultation
• Identify the ways in which you can meet the objectives of a change you have planned
• Set up mechanisms for monitoring the implementation of the change
• Evaluate the impact of the change.

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