Certificate in Change Management V3: APMG CM™ Training

Course 288

  • Duration: 5 days
  • Language: English
  • 29 NASBA CPE Credits (live, in-class training only)
  • 29 PMI PDUs
  • Level: Advanced

In this Change Management course, you will gain the skills and knowledge you require to achieve APMG Change Management Foundation and Practitioner certifications. You will learn how to:

    • Manage change in an organisation
    • Appreciate how people deal with change
    • Work with stakeholders during change
    • Apply good practice models for implementing effective change
    • Create a customised good practice CM Toolkit for your organisational changes based on The Change Management Study Guide

Certificate in Change Management Training Delivery Methods

  • In-Person

  • Online

  • Upskill your whole team by bringing Private Team Training to your facility.

Certificate in Change Management Training Information

Prerequisites

Previous change management experience is helpful but not required.

APMG Foundation and Practitioner Exams

  • Prepare for both examinations by studying the examination process and question styles, practice sample questions and examination papers, and learning proven tips for examination success
  • Complete the necessary APMG paperwork for the Foundation & Practitioner examinations
  • Prepare for and take both Foundation & Practitioner examinations

APMG Change Management Foundation examination are invigilated during class hours by the course instructor. The Foundation examination is taken on Day 3 of the course. before attempting the Practitioner examination, taken on the morning of Day 5.

APMG Certificate in Change Management: Course Outline

PART 1: Organisational Context & Approach (OA)

By the end of this Part you will be able to:

  • Identify the link between change management and benefits
  • Apply Kelman’s three levels of Adoption
  • Define simple and/or chaotic change
  • Understand planned change vs. emergent change
  • Use systems thinking to better understand and manage change
  • Apply Force Field Analysis to better understand and manage organisational context
  • Utilise Co-design for effective change
  • Apply structured approaches, such as ADKAR and the Change Management Cycle
  • Appreciate the benefits of using an AGILE approach

 

PART 2: People and Change (PC)

By the end of this Part you will be able to:

  • Appreciate and understand human responses to change
  • Understand the link between neuroscience and change management
  • Utilise the change curve
  • Lead the change journey
  • Understand motivations and drives affecting change
  • Appreciate and manage the impact of survival and learning anxiety
  • Recognise different learning styles and how to integrate them into change projects

 

PART 3: Change Leadership & Teams (CT)

By the end of this Part you will be able to:

  • Identify and understand key roles in managing change including Change Sponsor and Change Agent
  • Create Psychological Safety during change
  • Influence and lead change at all levels within organizational culture
  • Create, build and develop change teams
  • Harvest the value of team diversity

PART 4: Stakeholders and Communication (SC)

By the end of this Part you will be able to:

  • Identify and define stakeholders
  • Use stakeholder analysis techniques
  • Use stakeholder levels of power and stakeholder mapping techniques
  • Plan and build stakeholder engagement
  • Apply communication theory, including:
    • Appealing to hearts & minds
    • Barriers to communication
    • Planning and delivering communication

 

PART 5: Work of the Change Manager (WM)

By the end of this Part you will be able to:

  • Assess change impacts and change impact severity
  • Identify, understanding and manage resistance to change
  • Measure and analyse the effectiveness and benefits of change interventions
  • Build a change analytics strategy

 

PART 6: Developing Professional Change Practice (Practitioner only)

By the end of this Part you will be able to:

  • Create momentum and sustain change
  • Identify learning needs and learning objectives
  • Deliver effective coaching techniques to support change
  • Develop techniques to deliver effective developmental feedback
  • Manage potential conflict arising from change
  • Facilitate co-design for effective change

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Certificate in Change Management Training FAQs

This course prepares you for the APMG Change Management Foundation Exam, given on Day 4, and Practitioner Exam, given on Day 5. You learn good practice models to deliver effective change within your workplace, including approaches to achieve buy-in and handle continuous change.

This course is valuable for individuals wishing to achieve the APMG Change Management Certification. Anyone who must interact effectively with others to facilitate or direct change may find this course useful.

The APM Group (APMG) is the international exam and accreditation authority responsible for offering a suite of qualifications including ITIL®, PRINCE2® and MSP®. The APMG Change Management Certification recognizes knowledge and experience in dealing with the theories of how change impacts, and is affected by, individuals, teams, organizations and leaders of change initiatives. Successful completion of the APMG Change Management Certification demonstrates an individual's solid understanding of managing and leading change.

Certification candidates and existing credential holders are responsible for reporting all Continuing Certification Requirements Program (CCR) activities to PMI. To report the completion of a Learning Tree course, you can use the Online PDU Resources System.

  1. Log into your PMI Account: https://www.pmi.org
  2. Locate the claim code associated with your course
  3. On your profile dashboard, click "Report PDUs"
  4. Click "I have a claim code" and enter your course's claim code
  5. Submit your entry

PDU Information for This Course:

  • Total PDUs: 29
  • Technical PDUs: 1
  • Leadership PDUs: 1
  • Strategic & Business PDUs: 27
  • PMI Claim Code: 1154AIHMG2

Previous change management experience is helpful but not required.

  • A minimum of 15 hours of pre-course reading is required with the following materials, which are sent three weeks in advance: "The Effective Change Manager's Handbook" and "The Learning Tree Pre-Course Study Guide."
  • Each course day requires two hours of home study afterward.

The APMG Change Management Foundation exams are invigilated during class hours by the course instructor. The Foundation exam is taken on Day 4 of the course and needs to be passed before attempting the Practitioner Exam which is taken on the morning of Day 5.

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