This course is part of the Influencing: Storytelling, Change Management and Governance Specialization

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Influencing: Storytelling, Change Management and Governance SpecializationMacquarie University

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We live in a globalised world of continuous change. Your ability to successfully manage change will allow you to have a positive impact on your work and your life. Via structured learning activities (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessment) this course will teach you how to effectively influence change by developing a ‘change mindset’, creating a productive change cycle, and leading yourself and others on the change journey. You will learn how to re-imagine change by redefining the change problem and developing a balanced and reflective change mindset. Change is inevitable but you can influence how it affects your organisation.

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Design successful change initiatives by adopting a balanced and reflective change mindset
Create change cycles that effectively apply tools and techniques for orienting, performing, and evaluating change
Generate leadership strategies that are mindful of the complexity and challenges of change and mobilise energy for transformation

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Influencing: Storytelling, Change Management and Governance Specialization

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Approx. 18 hours to complete

English

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Professor Richard Badham

Department of Management

Macquarie Business School

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Brenda Santiago

Department of Management

Macquarie Business School

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

4 hours to complete

Re-imagining change 1: The change problem

‘We can’t solve a problem with the same type of thinking that we used in creating it.’ –– Albert Einstein

Einstein was onto something! Traditional approaches to change management try to solve the problem of change by using the same tools that created the problem in the first place. They provide you with designs to implement designs and strategies for executing strategies. This week you will discover the importance of stepping outside the box of conventional change management, colour in the white spaces in the organisation chart, and navigate the messy and choppy waters of the change journey. You will critically analyse the nature and origins of the failure rate of change initiatives, examine how and why modern organisations systematically mislead change and learn what an alternative approach involves.

4 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 28 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

Week2

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Re-imagining change 2: Icebergs & death valleys

‘Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.’ –– W.B.Yeats. You already have the knowledge necessary to manage change in your head, your heart and your hands. This knowledge is embedded in the cultural images and counter-images of what managing change involves. This week will help you appreciate the degree to which this is the case and get out of your own way in applying what, in a sense, you already know.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 24 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

4 hours to complete

Creating a change cycle 1: Maps & orientation

‘The Map is not the territory.’ –– Alfred Korzybski. If change is a journey, what type of journey is it? And what do we need to guide us along the way? This week will provide you with the tools necessary to map out the path you need to take and revise this map along the way. You will learn how to apply the three key mapping tools: ‘gap analysis’; ‘forcefield analysis’ and ‘route analysis’. In combination, these three provide you with a GPS for navigating the complex and often treacherous journey of change.

4 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 23 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Creating a change cycle 2: Masks & performance

‘All the world’s a stage, and we are but players on it.’ –– William Shakespeare. Knowing what to do to manage change is one thing. Knowing how to do it is another. While the route map outlines what you need to do, you have to decide how to do it, in context and with other people. How change plans are executed is always a performance, the artful exercise of influence in time, in space and in conditions that are often not of our choosing. This week you will discover the performances you will have to give, the masks you will be required to wear, the tensions and dilemmas you will encounter, and why influencing yourself is central to your ability to influence others.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 25 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM LEADING TRANSFORMATIONS: MANAGE CHANGE

by AVJul 14, 2020

I really enjoyed this course! The pace was manageable, the content was engaging and the mix of video lectures, reading and quizzes kept me engaged. Would recommend!

by MVJan 15, 2023

Excellent course. It really deepens on the reasons, variables, barriers, skills and readiness to change and how to mobilize individually and to do so with others.

by XSApr 13, 2020

It was a very comprehensive and interesting course. I couldn't wait to go through and listen to all the videos and readings.

I found it very useful for my personal and professional growth

by BGApr 8, 2020

Rich content, practical and to the point, with interesting examples and very good quality readings and video material. Can't wait to put my learnings into practice.

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About the Influencing: Storytelling, Change Management and Governance Specialization

The ability to influence without force or coercion is important in any organization and at all levels. Modern managers must master the art of persuasive communication, adapt to the needs of the audience, construct a good narrative and inspire the audience to act (Communicate with Impact). They must learn to design and negotiate both informal and complex agreements, and do this in diverse workplace cultures (Negotiate and Resolve Conflict).

The Specialization applies influencing methods in two areas of great importance: change management and risk governance. Successful change management eludes many individuals and organizations, so we propose a new approach to enable you to inspire and lead transformations (Manage Change). Similarly, in the post-financial crisis environment, many organizations acknowledge the need for effective risk governance but few, if any, have achieved it. We present evidence-based methods that will help your organization achieve its objectives (Engage the Board).

Influencing: Storytelling, Change Management and Governance

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