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Leading Through Change

Madecraft

Leading Through Change

Madecraft

Instructor: Madecraft

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

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4 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • How to scope a change accurately by capturing both the factual impact and the emotional impact across every group it touches.

  • How to communicate change in a way that lands for early adopters, evidence-driven majorities, and resistors all at once.

  • How to monitor, sustain, and reinforce change so adoption holds long after the rollout is done.

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June 2026

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10 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Leading Organizational Change Specialization
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There are 6 modules in this course

Your ability to lead through change — not just survive it — is one of the most visible measures of your effectiveness as a leader. In this module, you'll connect change leadership to the metrics that matter, navigate the most common challenges, and build a strategy blueprint you can apply to any change on your horizon.

What's included

4 videos2 assignments

Every change has a factual side and an emotional side, and missing either one is how well-intentioned initiatives quietly fall apart. In this module, you'll scope changes for both facts and feelings, analyze individual and organizational impact, manage risk, and set milestones that keep your team moving forward.

What's included

6 videos1 reading2 assignments

Not every change calls for the same playbook, and matching your approach to the situation is what separates effective leaders from reactive ones. In this module, you'll apply targeted strategies for quick changes, dramatic disruptions, course corrections, competing priorities, and ventures into the unknown.

What's included

5 videos1 reading2 assignments

People react to change in predictable ways, and your communication strategy has to speak to all of them at once. In this module, you'll tailor your messaging to four change archetypes and build a communication plan that pairs clear reasons to believe with an open feedback loop.

What's included

2 videos1 assignment

Without a monitoring plan, even well-executed change initiatives quietly lose momentum — and you won't know until it's too late to course correct. In this module, you'll measure change impact over time using target and guardrail metrics, and build pulse checks that surface adoption issues before they become full-blown problems.

What's included

2 videos2 assignments

The habits that lock in progress — celebrating wins, capturing lessons, and leading with courage and compassion — are the easiest to skip, and skipping them is how change quietly unravels. In this module, you'll build in rewards that reinforce adoption, run a structured More/Better/Different retrospective, and apply courage and compassion to keep yourself and your team moving through whatever changes come next.

What's included

3 videos1 reading1 assignment

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