You can complete one short course as a standalone credential or stack multiple to build towards a full postgraduate degree at Deakin. Want to know more?
Course overview
This short course enables you to understand workplace change issues, create a plan that is realistic and achievable, and use appropriate tools for managing and contributing to the change process.
After completion of this stackable short course, you will be able to apply these skills immediately in your workplace.
- Distinguish fundamental change tools, which can be applied within organisations.
- Create a basic change management plan that considers different types of change, identifies key change roles and sets realistic expectations and achievable goals.
- Select and apply a range of change tools based on an understanding of a situation, and the role and purpose of each tool.
- Create a basic communications plan that raises organisational change awareness through effective use of channels and messaging to stakeholders.
- Educate others in change principles, engage with and influence stakeholders, and visualise the change across various audiences.
Entry requirements
To be successful we recommend you are proficient in English and have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a related field or significant work experience.
Industry organisation and expert
This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with the Gilbert Kruidenier from Kruidenier Consultancy. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Gilbert Kruidenier runs his own consultancy firm and works on complex change problems. He builds capability and mindsets for change and communication that futureproof people and organisations.
The Kruidenier Consultancy provides advice, coaching and improvements to determine what type of change works for your organisation.
Earn a digital credential
We’ve teamed up with Credly to award you a digital credential when you complete this industry-recognised stackable short course, plus you can bank the credit towards a Deakin postgraduate degree. You can also share your digital credential on social and professional platforms.
Course structure
How you'll learn
Go at your own pace with support from your educator and fellow learners during online learning activities and discussions. Complete your course within 6 weeks, including the assessment, or take extra time and use the regular assessment submission windows to complete within 24 weeks of your enrolment. During this time, you can book online consultation sessions with your educators to support your learning.
What you’ll learn
During the short course you’ll:
- explore change context and the factors that influence change
- learn about basic and advanced change tools, including operating system canvas, strategic change canvas and Kubler-ross curve
- adiscuss organisational context, including change leader assessment, Denison framework, and values and ethics
- identify how to use communication channels and messaging to raise change awareness of stakeholders
- progressively populate the components of a change plan using the provided template.
How you’re assessed
Produce a basic and practical change plan that articulates how you will implement a specific change project in your own workplace (or a selected workplace agreed with the educator). Your response should include a selection of relevant and appropriate tools, a roadmap with a timeframe for your change, as well as other required components. You can document your plan in a business report (2500 word +/- 10 per cent), PowerPoint slides (maximum 30 slide with detailed notes) or self-recorded video (20–25 minutes).
Reshaping university education
An innovative learning structure delivered by a leading university. With more than 40 years’ experience in distance and online education, we’re proud to be adding this unique study format to our courses, providing you with more choice to further your career and fulfil your lifelong learning needs.
I completed the Change Tools short course and got my Deakin microcredential! I developed invaluable skills – I applied the learning by developing a change management plan for an initiative at work.
Change Tools graduate
Ready to enrol?
It takes five minutes to register your details and sign up for a stackable short course. We have discounts available for Deakin alumni, staff and group bookings. Enrol today and get the skills you need to take your career further, faster.
Did you know you can apply credit to a postgraduate degree?
Unsure what degree you want to study? Study two short courses that interest you and apply both as credit towards a wide range of postgraduate degrees at Deakin – from business administration to nursing, sustainability to communication and more.
*Subject to successful completion of the short course and meeting Deakin’s award course admission and selection requirements, including English language proficiency requirements.
Limits on elective space in a destination degree are outlined in specific degrees’ course rules within the Deakin University Handbook. Typically, a maximum of four stackable short courses can be used as credit (2 credit points) towards a masters; and two stackable short courses can be used as credit (1 credit point) towards graduate certificates and diplomas.
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