Learning & Skills Development Programs
Do your project change agents need to address the organizational resistance that may be blocking your path to success? Are you seeking a common, comprehensive process that all of your change agents can follow? Do you need to inject and integrate change management into your project plan to maximize your results? Do you need to select and develop internal experts who can lead the effort to minimize resistance and accelerate acceptance of your change initiative?

LaMarsh & Associates, Inc. can help. As a project team member, sponsor, or person impacted by the change, we invite you to learn and master the Managed Change™ process, model and its tools and instrumentation. Once you have developed your skills as a Change Agent to effectively apply the Managed Change™ process, model and tools, you can hone your coaching and consulting skills by entering our "Masters" advanced learning and certification programs.

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Managed Change™ Workshop
The Managed Change™ Workshop identifies the natural organizational resistance that typically stands in the way of successful implementations of change initiatives. With the concepts behind them, the LaMarsh & Associates, Inc. Facilitator then provides a thorough introduction to the Managed Change™ approach, process, model and tools for minimizing individual and organizational resistance and accelerating acceptance.

Throughout this interactive program, the LaMarsh & Associates, Inc. Facilitator will lead the participants in practicing the application of the Managed Change™ model and its tools. At the conclusion of this program, all participants should be well grounded in the Managed Change™ process and able to begin applying Managed Change™ in their change projects at hand.

Becoming a Partner in the Change Workshop
The Becoming a Partner in the Change Workshop addresses the emotional issues that can prevent employees from becoming partners in the change. It helps the employees to realize that those emotions and the resulting resistance to change are both natural and normal but that they, as well as their management, play a key role in dealing with the emotions and becoming proactive in learning to live with constant change: as a partner, not a victim.

Six Sigma and Managed Change™ Workshop
Six Sigma is a powerful tool for creating important changes in an organization. It can be even more powerful when the Black Belts address the organizational resistance, complementing the DMAIC and DMEDI processes with a project change management strategy and a set of supporting change management action steps.

The Six Sigma and Managed Change™ Workshop provides the Black Belts and Master Black Belts with introduction to the concepts and dynamics of Managed Change™. Throughout this special workshop the LaMarsh & Associates, Inc. Facilitator will present the alignment of Managed Change™ to the typical Six Sigma environment and demonstrate the value of applying Managed Change™ to every Six Sigma implementation.

Electronic Learning
The Managed Change™ e-Lesson is an alternative to traditional facilitated learning that leverages time, expense budgets and technology. LaMarsh & Associates, Inc. distance learning solution offers your organization choices on how knowledge and awareness of change management can be delivered to a diverse, geographically challenged employee base.

It is designed as a self-directed, web based learning program that replicates the learning experience of the Managed Change™ Workshop and provide opportunities for practice, coaching and application. The overall design of the e-learning course is presented in modules consistent with the Managed Change™ Model. The learners are required to complete the course in a sequential fashion, passing a rigorous test at the conclusion of each module.

The fee for the Managed Change™ e-lesson is $495 per student. The subscription is good for one year and allows you to download the script for each module as well as all tools and templates. The course is avaliable 24/7.

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Change Agent Certification Program
The Change Agent Certification Program is an intermediary skills development program that focuses on helping Change Agents develop their skills in applying the strategy, tools and tactics of Managed Change™. Because each participant will have already been applying Managed Change™ in their daily work, we leverage their collective experience by focusing on their current projects. Competency in applying the basic Managed Change™ tools will be tested prior to certification.

Master of Managed Change® Certification Program
The first of three "Masters" skills and competency development programs, the Master of Managed Change® Certification Program is offered for Practitioners of Managed Change™ whose jobs require them to:

• Lead the organizational change management effort on major projects.
• Coach others (Sponsors, Change Agents and Targets of change) on effectively applying the Managed Change™ process on change initiatives.

This challenging two-phased program provides the candidate the opportunity to:

• Take a deep-dive into the logic and methodology behind the Managed Change™ process from the perspective of the "Coach". (Level I)
• Demonstrate his/her competency in applying the Managed Change™ process, model and tools on a major project. (Level II)

Certifications will follow the successful completion of each level of demonstrated competency.

Advanced Masters Programs
At the summit of our Competency Development Triangle lie two additional advanced certification programs at the "Expert" level:

• FacilitationMaster® Certification Program-this "train-the-trainer" program is provided for professional course facilitators who to desire to internalize the delivery of the Managed Change™ series of workshop programs for their organization.
  
  
• MethodologyMaster® Certification Program-this program provides the ultimate "shortcut" to accelerating the development of internal change management consultancies. LaMarsh & Associates, Inc. is one of a few firms on the planet that has packaged its proprietary application consulting methodology (the private methods and special application tools our Consultants use on consulting engagements) to be shared with client internal consultants.

Contact Lew Lash for information about these advanced certification programs for developing Managed Change™ "Experts" within your organization.