Change Management Foundation&Practitioner

About training

Change Management Foundation is a collection of concepts and good practices of change management in an organization. It is based on proven and recommended methods of streamlining business change implementation and maintenance. Thanks to the presented methods of working with individual persons and teams from the perspective of learning, motivating, communicating, creating, and presenting the vision of change, as well as dealing with resistance, trainees improve the efficiency of change implementation. What is more, after completing the training, the participants will be more aware of how to build structures supporting the implementation of changes—change management teams and change agent networks.

Change Management Practitioner concentrates on applying Change Management Institute guidelines and adapting them to a specific organizational change situation. The Change Management Practitioner training is created based on an extended Case Story, which will allow trainees to use gained knowledge in practice. The method of conducting the course helps you to understand how the work of a Change Manager should be perceived in an organization, and presents possible solutions to the most common problems.

The training is accredited by APMG. This means that is has successfully undergone a strict process of quality audit. Thanks to that, this training prepares you to the certification exam.

The training is in online form. The idea of the ONLINE training is similar to the course of the training taking place stationary – the trainer discusses issues in accordance with the agenda, answers to questions related to tasks in the Questions and Answers sessions. Participants pass the exam after training, which can be performed in online form as well.

Training objectives

• To gain complete knowledge of terminology, tools, approaches promoted by the Change Management Institute within Change Management and used in organization change management.
• To prepare trainees to an official accredited exam.

Duration of the training

• The training lasts 5 days.
• The Foundation level exam takes place on the third day of training, after the learning part.
• The Practitioner level exam takes place on the last day of training.

Target group

Persons involved in change management processes in an organization.

• Organization change managers/leaders.
• Change management consultants.
• Persons who want to confirm their competences with an international certificate.

Language of the training

Language of the training:

• The training is conducted in English.

Language of materials:

• English.

Benefits of the training

• You will learn the terminology of efficient change implementation.
• You will learn how to use tools, approaches, techniques supporting the change process.
• You will learn the roles, principles, and duties of leaders in change implementation.
• You will gain knowledge on personality models and their identification techniques.
• You will understand the relations between a change in an organization and individual changes of a unit, and how such a change affects the surroundings.
• Number of PDU: 35

Exam and certification

Change Management Foundation exam:

This training is accredited by APMG. This means that is has successfully undergone a strict process of quality audit. Thanks to that, this training prepares you to the certification exam. The Foundation level exam takes place on the third day of training, after the learning part.

Examination procedure:

• The exam consists of 50 single choice test questions and takes 40 minutes.
• In order to pass, you need to have at least 25 correct answers.
• No learning aids are allowed during the exam.
• The exam can be taken in Polish or in English.
• A certificate issued by APMG is valid without time limits.

A participant who obtained the required number of points to pass the exam receives an international certificate in electronic. Additionally You can buy a paper version of the certificate.

Change Management Practitioner exam:

The training is accredited by APMG. This means that is has successfully undergone a strict process of quality audit. Thanks to that, this training prepares you to the certification exam. The Practitioner certificate can be granted only to the Foundation certificate holders.

Examination procedure:

• It is a choice test consisting of 4 areas of questions referring to a scenario.
• In order to pass, you need to have at least 40 points (out of 80).
• You have 150 minutes to write the exam; it can be taken in Polish or English.
• During the exam, you can only use the official Change Management coursebook in English.
• The Change Management Practitioner certificate is issued by APMG for the period of 5 years.

A trainee who receives the number of exam points necessary to pass gets an international certificate in electronic. Additionally You can buy a paper version of the certificate.