Change Management Training - Overview

Talk to us if you're serious about a career in managing change. The Diploma of Organisational Change Management is an Australian Nationally Accredited Qualification, recognised world wide and articulating to higher education. It is the world's first and only formal career pathway for Change Management Professionals. The training complies with the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) Essential Conditions and Standards for Registration." Qualifications will bear the Nationally Recognised Training Logo.

Please see FAQs for more information about the difference between 'accredited' training and "Nationally Accredited Training".

The Diploma is based on the academic research of 65 authors and practical application in the work place. The Diploma turns theory into practical, project-based change management.

Course candidates will learn and apply new skills, knowledge and behaviours in a live change project environment, applying the Change Management Methodology from the RIMER ...Managing Successful Change Professional Edition Manual. A copy is issued to each candidate.

The Manual provides comprehensive and scalable change project tools and templates to ensure candidate success in the workplace.

The Methodology can be used to establish the organisation's change management methodology to partner with PRINCE2, MSP and PMBOK project and program management methods, aligns with SFIA, the Business Excellence Framework, Australian Quality and Risk Standards and the Change Management Institute Standards.

Recommended for

The Diploma is suited to those responsible for managing change in an organisational. This program is especially suited to those who have a preference for project work, or growing the organisation, and may include:

• Change Managers and community engagement specialists
• Project Managers
• Generalist Managers
• Management Consultants
• Change support officers (backgrounds in communications, training, HR, organisational development, business analysis, benefits management, business management or similar)

Career Benefits

• Graduates will be entitled to add the letters: DIP OCM after their name
• Change Managers, Project Managers, Generalist Managers and Management Consultants will greatly enhance their career options and client offerings
• Change support officers will progress to an alternative career in managing change

Content

1. People and Cultures

• understanding how change affects people and developing mitigation strategies
• understanding different cultures and developing effective change strategies
• engaging and empowering change leadership and change ownership
• managing stakeholder engagement and change capability

2. Organisation

• aligning change strategies with organisational goals and results
• understanding and identifying the impacts of change on the organisation
• planning for and realising the benefits of the change
• minimising the price and consequences of change

3. Process and Tools

• learning and applying the RIMER... Managing Successful Change methodology in project and program environments
• managing change risks and issues, scope, time, cost, quality, procurement, project communications and project lifecycle
• learning and applying change management strategies, plans, surveys, tools and templates

• establishing effective change governance structures
• managing the change management team
• managing project partnerships
• working with the organisation's general management practices
• contributing to the organisation's goals and results

 Learning Outcomes

• Manage a project of change
• Realise project benefits
• Develop change strategies for different cultures
• Institute change accountability, performance and rewards
• Plan stakeholder engagement, change leadership, consultation, communications, training and human resource management
• Develop as a professional change management consultant

Apply for Recognition of Prior Learning

The National Australian Quality Training Framework terms of Recognition of Prior Learning apply to the Diploma of Organisational Change Management.

We are currently working with non-accredited change management training providers to support a smooth transition for their students into a formal change managment vocational pathway via the Diploma of Organisational Change Management.

Change management training providers are invited to submit proposals for RPL assessment.

Accredited Change Management Institute Members are invited to apply.

Relationship to Nationally Accredited Training

This Diploma meets the requirements of the following units of competency in the Australian National Competency Standards:

• BSBPMG510A - Manage projects
• QLD135ICP01A - Initiate change process
• QLD135APC01A - Analyse and plan for change
• QLD135DTC01A - Design and test change tactics and activities
• QLD135ICC01A - Implement change process
• QLD135MRC01A - Monitor and review change environment
• QLD135FTC01A - Finalise the change

Student Comments

Average rating from all 2011 Courses is 88%

Q: Were you expectations met?

• Yes - Exceeded!
• Yes - Great approach and tools
• I'm confident that I will achieve desired skills and capabilities

• Fantastic discussions about real applications
• The chance to expand my change management career
• Change Management Tools and Methodology
• Understanding the true concept of a Change Manager and the methodology's application in a client environment

Comments about the facilitator:

• Very professional; Very personable
• Very motivated: immense subject knowledge

Q. Would you recommend this program taught by this facilitator:

• Yes! Yes! Yes!
• 100% - Yes!

Course Schedule

 Course Duration (Class Size 8 - 14)         

• 6 Days Training and
• 4 hours of 1:1 private coaching

AIM Brisbane: Cohort 1/2012:

Days 1 and 2: 16 and 17 January, 2012

Days 3 and 4: 30 and 31 January, 2012

Days 5 and 6: 13 and 14 February, 2012

AIM Brisbane: Cohort 2/2012:

Days 1 and 2: 8 and 9 March, 2012 

Days 3 and 4: 21 and 22 March, 2012

Days 5 and 6: 2 and 3 April, 2012

AIM Adelaide: Cohort 3/2012

Days 1 and 2: 26 and 27 March, 2012

Days 3 and 4: 23, 24 April, 2012

Days 5 and 6: 3 and 4 May, 2012

Sydney: Cohort 5/2012

AIM Sydney: Cohort 5/2012

Days 1 and 2: 18 and 19 June, 2012

Days 3 and 4: 2 and 3 July, 2012

Days 5 and 6: 16 and 17 July, 2012

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Training Fee is fully Tax Deductible

Brisbane: Please call for closing dates

• Regular: $4995
•  Early Bird: $4395
• CMI Members: $4395
• Queensland Government rate: GITC Supplier Search: "Uniforte"

Sydney, Adelaide

• Regular: $5695
• Early Bird: $5195
• CMI Members: $5195

Corporate rates throughout Australian available upon application.  Please phone + 617 3878 9666.

Venues

Brisbane: Australian Institute of Management,Management House, Corner Boundary and Rosa Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane, Qld.

Adelaide: Australian Institute of Management, Port Road, Hindmarsh, SA

Sydney: Australian Institute of Management, 215 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, NSW.

Catering

All day beverages, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea catering is included.

With an on-site, fully equipped commercial kitchen, a team of dedicated food staff and an enviable reputation as leaders in
the field of corporate catering, Management
House offers catering options for a range
of events. The Chef uses only the freshest
produce; local seafood, organic free range
chicken, superior grade beef, a variety of
fresh salads including cold cuts, a
selection of Australian cheeses and an
extensive selection of sweet temptations
and fresh fruit. Special dietary
requirements can be accommodated and
corporate courses can create tailored menus.

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