Description
This certificate in change management offers a structured learning path that enables you to understand the foundations of innovation and change, manage change processes effectively, cultivate an innovation-supportive culture, and lead improvement initiatives through cohesive teams. By completing this certificate in change management, you will be able to foster creative thinking, manage risks, guide teams through change, and implement improvement projects using proven methodologies like Lean, Kaizen, and stage-gate models. You’ll also gain the capability to sustain change programs by engaging stakeholders, monitoring progress, and reporting outcomes clearly.
Who Should Enrol?
This certificate in change management is ideal for supervisors, managers, and team leaders looking to enhance their abilities to drive innovation and manage organizational change effectively. Whether you’re initiating new programs, supporting teams through change, or embedding continuous improvement, this course set equips you with the skills to lead change with credibility and positive results.
Program Details
- Level: Middle and Senior Managers
- Courses: 4 (see course details below)
- Learning: On Demand 24/7
- CPD Hours: 80 Hours (each course takes approx. 20 hours to complete)
- Duration: 4 Months
- Certification: GMA Professional Credentials: Professional Certificate in Change Management
Key Benefits
On completing the Professional Certificate in Change Management, you will have acquired skills and knowledge to plan for and manage innovation and change programs within the organization. You will first acquire a comprehensive insight into innovation practice and theory. You will learn how to support creativity in your team and others in creative thinking and supporting innovations in the organization. You will learn how to develop innovations from idea to monetization and how to manage innovation risks. You will also learn how to set up an innovation team, and how to plan for an successfully manage change programs in the organization.
Program Content
This Certificate in Change Management program comprises the following courses:
COURSE 1: UNDERSTANDING INNOVATION AND CHANGE
This course lays the foundation for the certificate in change management by helping you recognize the vital role of innovation in organizational success. You will explore different approaches to innovation, tools to foster creativity within your team, and structured methods to help your team cope with change. The course emphasizes why innovation is essential, how to generate ideas, and how to plan for inevitable change processes—providing essential foundations for any successful innovation or change initiative
COURSE 2: MANAGING CHANGE IN THE ORGANIZATION
The second course in this certificate in change management focuses on the specific roles managers play when leading change. You will gain clarity on how to support individuals and teams undergoing transformation, how to facilitate a change initiative within your organization, and how to maximize team contributions during change. Through this course, you will learn structured change management frameworks—such as ADKAR and Kotter’s 8-step model—to plan, communicate, and sustain change effectively
COURSE 3: DEVELOP AN INNOVATIVE WORK CULTURE
An integral aspect of any certificate in change management is building a culture that embraces ideas and improvement. In this course, you will learn how leadership commitment, collaborative environments, and daily practices support innovation. You will acquire practical techniques to encourage creativity, promote new thinking, and reinforce collaborative behaviors that support lasting change and improvement.
COURSE 4: LEADING AN INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT TEAM
Completing this certificate in change management, the final course offers insight into leading teams focused on improvement and innovation. You will learn how to form, organize, and guide improvement teams through business improvement projects. Topics include defining project objectives, managing execution, and ensuring deliverables are met—ultimately helping you lead innovation from ideation to implementation with structure and clarity.
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Skills and Knowledge
On completion of this Certificate in Change Management program, you will have developed the following skills and knowledge:
- Understand and respond to pressures to innovate
- Understand and use Blue Ocean theory to innovate
- Locate and evaluate opportunities for innovation
- Manage innovation using the stage-gate model
- Justify investment in innovation to stakeholders
- Understand continuous improvement
- Understand process variation and control
- Understand Kaizen methodology
- Understand LEAN and the 7 Wastes
- Apply problem analysis tools
- Evaluate problem solutions
- Plan implementation of solutions to problems
- Understand change management
- Apply a structured change management process
- Develop a change management plan
- Mobilize a change team
- Monitor change and evaluate outcomes
- Manage an improvement project
- Evaluate risk in innovation plans
- Develop project plans
- Manage project communication with stakeholders
- Manage project review meetings
- Report on improvement project progress
- Promote innovation and creative thinking within teams.
- Apply structured change management frameworks to guide transitions.
- Build and sustain innovative workplace cultures.
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver improvement projects.
- Monitor change initiatives, evaluate effectiveness, and adjust tactics as needed.
This certificate in change management stands apart because it integrates both innovation practices and change leadership into a cohesive learning experience. You’ll not only understand the theory behind innovation and change management but also apply these skills through structured tools and case-based exercises. The flexibility of the online format ensures you can balance learning with professional commitments while immediately applying your newly acquired skills.
