Certificate overview

This three-day program runs consistently throughout the year and focuses on the planning aspects of change from an HR perspective. Students will receive training in strategic change management frameworks that work across any type of organization or sector. In particular, the program looks at areas such as:

• Vision planning
• Stakeholder management
• Communications planning

Certificate Overview

Focused on helping people increase their capacity to lead through change, this 5-day in-class program will help students learn the necessary skills to manage themselves and others during times of change from a business perspective. Specific skills taught include: business restructuring, acquisitions strategy, and outsourcing planning. A three-day program is also available focusing on managing conflict and communications through change.

Certificate overview

The three-day program in change management offered by Rotman emphasizes the human element of change. It looks at how individuals can be champions of change within their organization, specifically around:

• Vision setting
• Rallying teams behind your cause
• Achieving and sustaining vision success

Certificate overview

This three day intensive program covers the basics of change management and offers Prosci’s proprietary ‘3-Phase Process’ for managing change. Other topics taught during the program include:

• Best practices in change management
• Building a research-based change management methodology
• Stakeholder management and momentum building for change

Certificate overview

A part-time course taking place over four to six months, the change management program is geared toward change practitioners who want to build upon existing skills. Because of this assumption that you have some basics in change management, courses look at next-level topics like:

• Business analysis
• Project management
• Communications strategy

Certificate overview

With 75 hours of course instruction, Mount Royal’s organizational change management extension certificate looks at the basic principles of organizational change and how people can thrive during change. Specific skills taught include:

• Installing new technology
• Process evolution
• Creating new products and services

Certificate overview

Algonquin College offers two certificates in change management, one for foundations and one for practitioners, which the college calls a “certified local change agent.” The programs look at the whole spectrum of change management and can either be taken as just the foundations course, which is 3 days, or the foundations and practitioner course, which is 5 days.

Certificate overview

Requiring 200 hours of course time online or in-class, this program looks holistically at how change management drives business results. It’s intended for business professionals in fast-paced environments, with students learning the fundamentals of change management, including:

• Assessing organizational readiness for change
• Identifying the impacts of change
• Fitting change management into project management frameworks

Certificate overview

This three day seminar dives into the decision frameworks and models that research and practice have shown to be effective for driving change. Topics covered include:

• Learning to anticipate and get ahead of change issues
• How to work with managers to understand change
• Adapting change management techniques to your unique situation

Certificate overview

Taking a very hands-on approach to change management education, this six month program guides students through step-by-step strategies for change management. It further dives into the tools and techniques used by change practitioners on a regular basis, including:

• Stakeholder management
• Change scoping
• Integrating change into ongoing business operations

Certificate overview

With nine days of instruction taking place over three 3-day workshops, this certificate looks at change management from multiple different lenses. In particular, it looks at:

• Change leadership
• Managing change
• Managing people through change

Certificate overview

This six month program is a full graduate certificate, setting it apart from other schools. It’s geared towards managers and supervisors who need to increase their change skillsets.  Students focus on a holistic look at change management, tackling subjects such as:

• Connecting change efforts to organizational strategy
• System-level interventions
• Transforming culture
• Employee engagement and communication