Join expert, Blair Cook as he walks you through change from all perspectives. From what sorts of corporate initiatives require careful consideration of change management principles, to the challenges of implementing change. We look at change from the perspective of the employee, after all, it's they for whom we need to change for the organization to be successful. And we develop an approach to enable that to happen successfully. Finally, we will look at way that organizations are adapting to continuous change by changing aspects of their organizational structure.
Publication Date: April 2021
Topics Covered
- Introduction
- Challenges of Change
- Change from the Employee's Perspective
- Approaches to Change Management
- Adapting for Constant Change
Learning Objectives
- Identify the need for change management
- Recognize the characteristics of the CFO as a financial catalyst
- Recognize and explain the role of change management in bridging between the current state and the future state
- Identify the barriers to transformational change
- Identify the challenges to overcome for change management to having any effect
- Describe the emotional reactions of employees during a change initiative
- Identify the phases of the ADKAR Model
- Recognize and apply the Eight Steps to Implementing Change
- Describe the network organizational model
- Describe Enterprise Change Management (ECM) as an organizational discipline
- Identify employee's perspective of change
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Management Services (1 hour)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
Instructor
Blair Cook
Blair Cook CPA, CA CPA (Ill) MBA, is a many time and active financial executive, corporate director, author, speaker, and thought leader. His educational videos of accounting and finance have million of views on YouTube. He has keynoted and spoken at national conferences from New York to Toronto. He also co-hosts CPA Canada’s podcast series “CPA Success Podcast.” He works with real businesses experimenting with theories and best practices to share his experiences and stories with others of what works, what doesn’t, and what was learned. He is the author of The Illiterate Executive: An Executive’s Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen.