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Change Management: Supporting People Through Change

The success of any organization can be measured by the speed and efficiency with which it implements changes in order to be competitive within its market place.

To survive in the modern business environment most organizations must deal with constant change. Mergers and acquisitions, downsizing and restructuring make managing organizational change one of the most complicated challenges facing businesses today. Initiating changes is often manageable and achievable, providing the correct expert resources are available to support the implementation. Often the "people issues" are not dealt with adequately, causing the full benefits of the changes to be greatly reduced or completely sabotaged.

Organisational Benefits

The CPA Change Management Workshops can support your organization to:

  • Focus the talent and energy of people toward organizational goals;
  • Increase the return on the company’s investment in people;
  • Reduce absenteeism;
  • Involve the entire organization in the change process;
  • Reduce the risk of opposition and sabotage to the change program;
  • Achieve a clear action plan that shows the commitment of the workforce to ensure the successful implementation of the changes.
 Individual Benefits

As a result of the Change Management workshops, participants can:

  • Gain a full understanding and acceptance of the new tasks involved in the changes;
  • Achieve higher levels of interpersonal support for everybody affected by the changes;
  • Reduce stress, burn-out, sickness and disillusionment;
  • Eliminate negative and critical thinking;
  • Share ideas, experiences, fears and concerns in a safe environment.

Target Audience

Any organization or individual facing issues such as:

  • Restructuring or downsizing;
  • Mergers or takeovers;
  • Financial challenges;
  • Lack of job security;
  • Inability to adjust;
  • Loss of personal confidence;
  • Different ways of working;
  • Loss of confidence in the management;
  • Loss of support from familiar colleagues due to team restructuring or redundancies;
  • Lack of understanding of necessity for change.

    • Learning Approach And Content

    The Change Management workshops focus on the second order changes which ensures that the people within the organization are helped to fully adjust and commit to the changes. The workshop provides a feedback mechanism to ensure that the management is fully informed at all times of the impact that changes are having on the workforce. Ideas and actions are fed back from the workforce to the board on a regular basis, which enables senior management to modify the implementation of the changes. This also provides management with essential information about the impact of the changes on customers and thus influences any necessary action to solve problems.