Handbook

This course examines how you can initiate and sustain change in yourself and your organisation and teaches you the skills to support both processes. The focus is on organisational change in complex and turbulent environments. The course adopts a systems perspective on change. You will understand the nature of open systems and how to analyse and utilise them as a means to introduce and sustain change. The course requires you to complete a research project, involving a systemic needs analysis within an organisation and the development of an implementation strategy. 

Course Aims

Systems for Change aims to show how:

• Effective organisational change depends on the degree to which systems support, motivate and enable change
• Effective systems are those which respond to and positively influence other systems, organisational strategies and the wider environment.
• Effective change agents recognise the complexities of organisational change and how a systems perspective can help sustain both episodic and continual change in turbulent environments.
• Effective change agents critically review and learn from their experiences.