Change Management Training Course

This intensive one-day course equips senior managers and decision-makers with the tools, strategies, and confidence to lead organizational change initiatives effectively. It addresses both the technical and human sides of change, ensuring participants can navigate resistance, inspire commitment, and deliver sustainable transformation. By combining theory, real-world case studies, and practical exercises, participants will leave with a clear roadmap to initiate, manage, and embed change within their organizations.

This 1-day Change Management course equips employees with practical tools and strategies to navigate and adapt to organizational changes, even when they have no formal decision-making authority. The training focuses on understanding the nature of change, managing personal and team reactions, and maintaining productivity and morale throughout transitions. Participants will gain insights into how change impacts individuals, explore methods for reducing resistance, and practice resilience-building techniques to thrive in evolving work environments. By the end of the course, participants will be able to apply change management principles to their own roles, enhancing both their adaptability and their contribution to organizational success.

As the pace of change accelerates with digital business and Business 3.0, organization boundaries and alliances are constantly shifting.  To survive and thrive in this new knowledge economy, teams and individuals need to learn how to resolve conflict more effectively while maintaining long term relationships. Unfortunately, most professionals receive very little education in effective conflict resolution, leading to situations where conflict is either avoided, responses are passive agressive, or even worse, schoolyard bullying becomes the dominent means of winning conflict.

This instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote) is aimed at executives, leaders, teams and business individuals who wish to learn how to resolve conflict using practical, simple to follow yet highly effective conflict models.  By the conclusion of the course, you will have experience with 14 powerful plug-and-play tools that can help you resolve conflict while maintaining positive relationships in the workplace.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify the 5 stages of effective conflict resolution.
• Agree how to deal with conflict before it starts 
• Manage themselves positively through conflict. 
• Work with proven methods to resolve conflict faster and more effectively
• Rehearse conflict to achieve a better outcome
• Learn from conflict to approach future conflicts differently.

The program includes simulations, role playing activities, and interactive workshops to give you the necessary practical experience.  The course has an empahsis on fun, interactive, practical, visual and analogy based learning to help embed the models while moving at a fast pace.  You can expect to hear about topics ranging from buildings, to emotions, to preparing your conflict dish, to lemmings, leading 20th Century pyschologists, Harvard Business models, Yogic breathing, kidnapping, rice, chairs and Les Miserables.   

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE (online or onsite) is aimed at stressed individuals who wish to deal with their stress effectively and achieve a calmer, clearer and more energetic state in daily life.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the two types of stress: distress and eustress.
• Articulate your personal indicators and relievers of stress.
• Create a plan with specific routines to enhance calm, clarity and energy, while minimzing stress accumulated in the day.
• Shift negative emotions and boost positive ones using proven techniques.
• Deal with stress-causing. disempowering beliefs around work, life, and relationships.

The Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a dynamic two-day course certified by the Lean Kanban University (LKU). It integrates instruction, group discussions, and an immersive simulation to demonstrate how the Kanban Method assists individuals, teams, and organizations in managing and enhancing product and service delivery to their clients.

The Kanban Method offers practical, actionable, evidence-based advice for achieving successful evolutionary change. It begins with your current practices and promotes gradual transformation while respecting existing roles, responsibilities, and job titles, as well as fostering leadership at all levels. This enables organizations to evolve business processes incrementally, establish and utilize pertinent metrics to gauge progress, and substantially mitigate risks associated with complex change initiatives.

Upon completion of this course, you will gain an understanding of Kanban principles and general practices, along with the skills needed to confidently implement Kanban within your organization.

What Will You Learn?

• Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
• Analyze demand versus capability
• Create models for the knowledge discovery process
• Design kanban systems and their visualizations
• Detect and prioritize improvements
• Select cadences for activities
• Recognize classes of service

Who Is This Course For?

This course is suitable for anyone involved in product development or knowledge work, including but not limited to:

• Program and delivery managers
• Product and project managers
• Product developers, software developers, and testers
• Individuals working in operations or support roles
• Business analysts
• High-level management
• Anyone interested in implementing Agile methodologies within their organization

John Kotter wrote "Leading Change" which looked at what people did to transform their organisations. Kotter introduced an 8-step change model for helping managers deal with transformational change. 

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE (online or onsite) is aimed for managers, business owners and strategists planning to implement Kotter's 8 model in their respective organization.

 Who should attend: Managers keen on enhancing productivity through the implementation of 5S and ensuring they initiate this critical concept correctly.

This training program is designed for professionals across various industries. It can be customized for dental clinics, laboratories, offices, etc. The course focuses on practical guidance rather than academic theory, offering actionable insights into implementing 5S effectively.

The course targets leaders and change agents who wish to ensure they are introducing the 5S methodology in the right manner.

Participants will have the chance to gain hands-on experience through a series of exercises that demonstrate the effectiveness of 5S.

Upon completion of the training, you will:

• Grasp how 5S operates and boost efficiency by up to 30%
• Be capable of identifying waste sources and enhancing profitability
• Comprehend the rationale behind the five-step process and know how to execute it
• Possess the tools and procedures necessary for improving processes
• Create a concrete plan to introduce 5S in your workplace

If you are considering increasing workplace efficiency, securing more orders, and delighting customers while also enhancing safety, this course is essential.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to introduce, implement, and sustain 5S practices effectively in their organization.

Rather than focusing on in-depth analysis or significant transformations, the McKinsey 7-S model is ideal for assessing your company's overall coherence. If you recognize the need for change but are unsure of how to proceed, this change management framework can guide you effectively.

This instructor-led training session (delivered online or at your premises) targets managers, business owners, and strategists who aim to integrate the McKinsey 7-S model into their organizations.

Course Structure

• An interactive lecture combined with group discussions.
• A variety of exercises and practical applications.

Customization Options for the Course

• To tailor this training to your specific needs, please contact us to discuss further arrangements.

Are you struggling with implementing Agile in your organization? Is the change too prescriptive? Are your teams overburdened and less productive but still too resistant for a revolutionary change?

Choose the “Alternative Path to Agility” and implement an evolutionary and humane Change Management Method which doesn’t change your process but improves it.

The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It starts with what you do now and respects current roles, responsibilities and job titles. This allows organizations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risk associated with complex change programs.

If your team is overwhelmed, Kanban can help you to get your work under control. Kanban is a new technique for dynamically managing your process and revealing bottlenecks.

This training provides the skills and knowledge you need to apply Kanban in your work and learn how to determine what to work on now, what to leave until later and what to take off the to-do list forever.

Learning Outcomes

This 1-day course teaches the basics of the Kanban Method® and serves as the entry level and starting point to an alternative path to agility.

Attendees should become familiar with the Kanban Method. They should be able to design and implement a basic Kanban board. They should be able to understand work item types and the risks associated with specific work items. They should be familiar with a variety of different Team Kanban board designs and styles and know how to choose a design that is best suited for their context. They should be aware of the training roadmap and the value and benefits to be derived at each step on the “alternative path to agility.”

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for any professional who is part of a product development or knowledge work environment and who is interested in discovering how Kanban can help improve working environments. Kanban works across multiple functions of an organization, from senior members of staff looking to adopt Lean Management to members of delivery teams willing to improve their working practices. Previous attendees to our classes have been in roles such as:

• Senior Management Positions (CxO)
• Program and Project Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts
• Scrum Team Members
• Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents
• Product & Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals