Cross-cutting

Adapting to Change

Personal Development 1.00 pm

Introduction

Through the Adapting to Change Of course, you will strengthen one of the most important areas for successfully adapting to the business environment. The course explores key aspects such as adaptation, the stages of change, and Lewin’s theory. You will learn the essential foundations for a the company’s survival whilst meeting specific requirements to improve professional performance. 

Objectives

  • To understand the concept of change, its acceptance, and its work placements

  • To find out about the processes of adaptation and resistance

  • To explore the paradigm of change and the concept of positive illusions

  • To study change theories such as those proposed by Lewin and Kotter

  • To understand how emotions work in business development

  • To analyse job search profiles and how employees adapt during job interviews. 

Table of Contents

UNIT 1. CHANGE AS A FORM OF ADAPTATION

What is change?
How can I accept it? How can I change?
Conclusions on how to make change possible
Change processes: Adaptation and resistance

UNIT 2. THE REASON FOR CHANGE

A shift in paradigm and positive illusions
Stages of change
Lewin's theory
What makes us change?

UNIT 3. HOW TO ADAPT TO CHANGES IN THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT?

Principles of Acceptance and relevant strategies
Change and its management in organisations
Kotter’s model of the stages of change
Emotions and their role in business change

UNIT 4. APPLYING CHANGE TO EMPLOYABILITY

Stages in business change
Changes in employability
Job search profiles
Succeeding in a job interview

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