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Manage, accelerate, and embed change successfully

Change is not just inevitable in today’s world; it has become the status quo. Organizational transformation happens when you can engage the minds, hearts, and behaviors of the people involved.

On IMD’s Change Management online program you will explore change management through several lenses: individual and organizational; rational and emotional; people and processes. The holistic perspective you gain brings together strategy and leadership to allow you to successfully inspire, mobilize, and embed change. 

You will:

  • Design a change process and create the context that enables change.
  • Benefit from the support of a dedicated coach as you apply your learnings to a change initiative you are currently leading or involved in.
  • Take part in a simulation to better understand how to engage with stakeholders and mobilize people behind your change initiative.
Drive change with purpose

Clarify the reasons for change and craft a compelling vision.

Navigate and overcome barriers

Understand your stakeholders and potential resistance to change.

Accelerate adoption to change

Identify tactics that help you accelerate your change and bring stakeholders on board.

Communicate for impact

Craft and deliver powerful change communication messages.

Measure and maintain progress

Evaluate and track the success of your change initiative and sustain the momentum.

 

“My biggest takeaway is a new perspective on complex business changes”

Bruno joined the program when he was managing a big project with a critical change management component. Hear what he says about his learning journey.

Discover the learning journey

Our Change Management program spans five weeks, with each week focusing on a distinct topic and providing a rich mix of educational resources. Throughout this journey, you’ll benefit from the guidance of a dedicated executive coach who will offer personalized support and feedback, helping you apply your learning to your specific context for immediate impact.

Unit 1: Envision the future
  • Understand the foundations of change management.
  • Ensure that you have mapped out key roles in change.
  • Be able to understand the why of change.
  • Craft a compelling change vision.
  • Diagnose and scope the change and identify forces for and against the change.
Unit 2: Understand your stakeholders
  • Discover emotional stages of the change process and reflect on how to best lead people through these stages.
  • Identify key stakeholders, understand what is important to them, and map them relative to one another.
  • Learn about the most common areas of resistance to change.
Unit 3: Mobilize the change
  • Learn about the overall change process and decide on the scope and pace of your change.
  • Discover sources of influence which you can harness, even when you are lacking formal authority.
  • Understand the organizational context in which your change is taking place and identify tactics you can use to influence change.
Unit 4: Communicate for impact
  • Discover the key elements of successful change communication, and the channels through which it happens.
  • Learn to craft and deliver powerful and meaningful change messages through various techniques.
  • Create your own change communication plan for an initiative you’re working on.
Unit 5: Evaluate and adapt
  • Evaluate the change initiative by adoption level across stakeholders and use different methods to evaluate adoption levels.
  • Build, reinforce, and sustain momentum of change.
  • Build individual and organizational change resilience.
What our participants say about this program
Change Management participant Javier Pelaez
Javier Peláez Giró

HR Manager Spain & IT Global HRBP – Support Functions, Arxada, Spain

A holistic perspective

IMD’s Change Management program equipped me with a holistic perspective on how to explore change management through various lenses. I also gained insights into strategy and leadership that will enable me to inspire, mobilize, and incorporate change.

Change Management participant Aurelie Litynski
Aurelie Litynski

Happiness at Work Expert, Happitude at Work, Switzerland

Extremely interesting

The Change Management program was extremely interesting and provided insights into how to manage, accelerate and embed change successfully. It was once again fascinating to realize how important a positive work culture is.

Change Management participant Bruno Chappuis
Bruno Chappuis

Project Manager, ISO, Switzerland

So many takeaways

IMD’s Change Management program provided so many takeaways and inspiring thoughts to reflect on! I had the opportunity to learn from some of the most talented professors about change, communication, leadership, and organizational behavior, to mention but a few topics.

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IMD’s Change Management program

Prepare yourself to lead change successfully on IMD’s Change Management program. Throughout your five-week journey, apply your learnings directly to your own change initiative with the support of your dedicated executive coach.

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