The definitive certification for professionals dealing with organizational change, transition and transformation.
Our Change Management courses, developed in partnership with the Change Management Institute, are designed to help organizations and their people manage the impact of change. They provide techniques to effectively plan and implement successful transformation initiatives.
In the modern business environment, change is relentless. This can be challenging, but it also presents opportunities. By effectively managing change, organizations enhance their performance and achieve their goals.
Understanding the impact of change is crucial to its management. Change can create either positive or negative outcomes. It can lead to increased productivity, improved morale and new opportunities, or it can cause stress, anxiety, and resistance.
Our Change Management foundation and practitioner training explores how change affects, and is affected by, individuals, teams, change leaders, and organizations.
APMG-accredited Change Management courses equip individuals with the knowledge, proven methods and techniques to:
- Unlock resistance to change.
- Provide effective support and motivation to individuals and teams to embrace change.
- Draw from a range of professional approaches to implement change smoothly and effectively.
- Identify and engage with key stakeholders throughout the change process to gain support.
- Speed up the implementation of change programs.
- Highlight their contribution as change professionals to initiatives.
Techniques and tools discussed in the course, such as how to lead change and involve those impacted by it, and effective communication strategies, can help organizations manage change and reap the benefits.
These qualifications also offer a pathway to independent accreditation by the Change Management Institute.
APMG is proud that the Change Management Practitioner certification is accredited and recognised by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
Change Management Foundation
Become an effective team member involved in organizational change projects.
- Anyone interested in understanding the basic principles of achieving successful organizational change, transition or transformation.
- Team members involved in organizational change, transition or transformation projects.
- Professionals pursuing the Change Management Practitioner certificate – for which the Change Management Foundation certificate is a pre-requisite.
- Structured approaches you can use to shape a change initiative.
- How to 'read' the organizational context for change.
- Human responses to change and techniques to help people adapt.
- Sources of resistance to change and ways to work effectively with these.
- Factors affecting people's motivation during changes and how to encourage support for change initiatives.
- How teams can facilitate successful organizational change and how line leaders, sponsors, change managers and change agents can best work together.
- How to identify stakeholders and engage effectively with them.
- Essential communication principles to support change initiatives.
- Ways to assess change impacts across the organization.
- How to select and effectively utilize key metrics for evaluating change.
- Multiple choice
- 25 marks required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
- 40 minutes duration
- Closed-book
Change Management Practitioner
Be recognized as a dependable manager of organizational change.
- The Change Management Foundation certificate is a pre-requisite.
- Aspiring or current managers of organizational change, transition or transformation.
- Those performing key roles in the design, development and delivery of of organizational change programmes, including:
- Change Project Managers
- Transformation Managers
- Senior Responsible Owners
- Business Change Managers
- Change Programme Managers
- Operational Line Managers
- Levers to help embed change and ensure its sustainability.
- Strategies to manage learning and development in support of change.
- A framework for coaching colleagues, including listening and feedback techniques.
- Core insights into handling conflict during periods of change.
- Approaches to facilitate collaborative design of change.
The Change Management Practitioner exam has been updated, and the new versions were released in March 2024. The revised exam format is:
- Objective testing based on a case study scenario
- 5 sections of 16 marks each
- 40 marks required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
- 2.5 hours duration
- Restricted open book – The APMG Change Management Study Guide.
Change Management Practitioner Re-Registration
Maintain your Registered Practitioner status.
A valid Practitioner certificate (must be before the certification expires).
- Change Management Registered Practitioners wishing to retain their 'Registered' status
The Change Management Practitioner exam has been updated, and the new versions were released in March 2024. The revised exam format is:
- Objective testing based on a case study scenario
- 5 sections of 16 marks each
- 40 marks required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
- 2.5 hours duration
- Restricted open book – The APMG Change Management Study Guide.