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Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership

Internal and external triggers of change

SL709 · Strategic Change Management — Week 5 of 16

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Week5 of 16
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This week’s topics

Internal and external triggers of change

  1. External and internal triggers of change and innovation: changes in markets, economic downturns, legislation, demographics
  2. Mergers and acquisitions, re-engineering, TQM
  3. Organisational constraints, e.g. human and financial resources
  4. Appraise these triggers of change and innovation

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Evaluate the internal and external triggers of change that may impact on an organisation.

Study materials

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Course plan
  • Week 1: Leadership and the characteristics of effective change agen…
  • Week 2: Evaluating change agents: self-reflection and skills develo…
  • Week 3: Principles of organisational change
  • Week 4: Approaches to organisational change, change models and tools
  • Week 5: Internal and external triggers of change
  • Week 6: Influences on change and real-life change processes
  • Week 7: Developing a change management strategy that takes stakehol…
  • Week 8: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Tools and techniques to plan, implement and manage change
  • Week 10: Measuring the progress of the change plan
  • Week 11: Change risks, stakeholder analysis and resistance to change
  • Week 12: Managing resistance to change and conflict
  • Week 13: Management disciplines and business functions in change man…
  • Week 14: Evaluating an integrated change management plan
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment
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