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Specialist certifications

Course Description

The Change Management specialist certification course will help you develop the skills necessary to play an active and effective role within and across organizations that are going through varying degrees of change. Managing organizational change is critical to implementing every type of initiative, which in turn helps the organization meet its strategic objectives. Sounds easy? It’s not. Organizational change initiatives fail at an alarming rate because of the underestimation of the stakeholders (actual and perceived) impact of change.

This course gives you a 360-degree view of change management from the “drivers of change,” the theory behind change management, investigation of change success factors, and change models including techniques and tools. A case study concept is integrated into the course, where we take course attendees’ change challenges and solve them in teams. This makes for a hands-on workshop to help participants understand the challenges working in virtual, physical, and mixed environments to develop the skills necessary to define and execute an active and effective role within and across organizations that are going through change.

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Modules

  • What are the drivers of change?
  • Mapping drivers of change onto lifecycle frameworks
  • Examples of drivers and their causality
  • Pain or gain as drivers
  • Technology
  • Globalization and internationalization
  • Legal requirements inducing change


  • What is Success (project management success and project success)
  • Why most change projects fail!
  •  The definitive guide to wreck your change project!
  • Success factors of change
  • Continuous improvement
  • Second order change
  • Development phases of organizations
  • Organizational (Business Unit, Corporate)
  • Team
  • Individual change of people
  • Kotter's 8-step model
  • Kubler-Ross Change Curve
  • Lewin's Three-Stage Change model
  • The Burke-Litwin Change model
  • McKinsey 7s model
  • The Trigon System Model
  • Tailoring a model to your environment
  • Participatory approach
  • Top-down approach
  • Development versus technocratric change
  • Conflict management as a change approach
  • Aligning workforce and change requirements of the organization
  • Aligning people and job requirements
  • Training and skills analysis
  • Personnel development
  • Phases of Team Development – Tuckman Model
  • Team composition
  • Work group versus high performance team
  • Conflict management in teams
  • Change Management on various corporate levels
  • Mergers and Acquisitions – Managed transformations and integrations
  • Change strategy development
  • Corporate culture
  • Regional culture
  • Intercultural theory
  • Values and customs
  • Language
  • AIPMO PMO
  • PMO's role in change management
  • Critical (change) points in a project and PMO lifecycle
  • Change management service description – see AIPMO’s PMO Services and Capabilities book
  • Importance of mastering techniques, tools, and processes
  • Mapping the seven basic processes of change
  • Steering organization for the change management
  • Skill-Management
  • Forcefield analysis
  • Culture mapping
  • Metrics and data collection

Teaching Approach

The training approach includes

1

Lecture

2

Team exercises

3

Group discussions

4

Case study

5

Personal coaching

6

Exam

I am not in the PMO field, but have been very interested. So the IPMO-P course gave me an opportunity to know a lot about it. Special thanks to the instructor!

Alaa Mahrus
Design Lead, Engineering & Technical Lead, The Royal Commission for AlUla

The IPMO-P course was very useful and full of information. I am looking forward to implement this in my organization, and definitely I will highly recommend this to my colleagues and people that are working in this field! 

Walid Taweli
Executive Manager, Qoot

I come from project management background and want to set a PMO. So the IPMO-P course was very important for me, and just perfect. It was good to have participants from different countries and different fields.

Faiçal Maiach
Project Manager. ICAD-KSA

Who should attend

  • Project and program management professionals
  • Consultants (involved in projects and/or organizational change)
  • PMO/IT managers and team members, portfolio managers and senior management 
  • PMO/IT managers and team members, portfolio managers and senior management 
  • Those responsible to lead and manage people through change at work

Key takeaways

Recognize the drivers of change and challenges relating to change management in complex virtual and hybrid environments

Assess the change readiness of the organization and analyze how to reduce the resistance to change

Know what roles PMOs at different levels can play to lead and manage change across projects, programs, and portfolios

Know the main change models and tailor one to your own environment

Learn to build an AIPMO PMO change management service including the capabilities to run this service across projects and programs

Critique an organization's change readiness by understanding change success factors and applying proven techniques and approaches

Discuss the importance of communication, trust, and culture in the change management process

Develop skills that help employees cope throughout periods of change

Prerequisites

  • Educated to a degree level or similar

Exam

The online exam is run by AIPMO, and moderated by a proctor from AIPMO at the end of the course.

  • Open book exam, 50 multiple choice questions 
  • Duration: 1 hour

Attendees are notified by email of the results of the exam

Frequently Asked Questions

You Ask, We Answer

Each of the certification categories serves a different purpose. The first category, “PMO Core Certifications,” shows that you have the competencies to design and build a service-orientated PMO with services that are needed by your project community. At the top-level (Expert) certification, you must show that you have the competencies to design and build one or more PMOs (called PMO topologies) within an integrated PMO Services topology. The second category of certifications is called the “Specialist” certifications because they directly relate to the ability to offer PMO services. If a PMO service is planned, then the PMO needs to have the capability to provide it. There are over 20 specialist courses at the time of writing. Project team members also need these courses. The third category of courses, called “Master Class” certifications, comprises three certifications that everyone needs, regardless of whether you are a PMO, project team member, or a PM/O director. These courses are the techniques and tools of a trade, so everyone, including project professionals, needs them.

For now, it is best to ask one of our professionals. You can either call or chat online. They can provide you with expert advice on planning and advancing your career.

The short answer is yes. Bundles are shown on the website, but you can also call to ask if you can get a special discount. This will also be considered if you join the course as a group.

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