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University of Cape Town: Change Management

Learn to plan, implement, and drive sustainable change within your organization.

Learn to plan, implement, and drive sustainable change within your organization.

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8 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Mar 31, 2025
Enroll by Apr 6, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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8 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Mar 31, 2025
Enroll by Apr 6, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

With change being the only constant, businesses find themselves either becoming the drivers of that change or being driven by it. Learning to manage and adapt in a conscious, ethical, and sustainable way will be the differentiating factor among professionals and organizations in the future.

The Change Management online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) equips you with a comprehensive toolkit for solution design in the form of sustainable change management. This eight-week course offers a theoretical and practical focus that ensures change becomes embedded at every level in your organization. You’ll be exposed to a number of industry change management models, diagnostic tools, and real-world case studies. By the end of this course, you’ll walk away with the skills to successfully anticipate, articulate, and act with the goal of building your organization’s competency for change.

This course is ideal for professionals responsible for leading and implementing change in their organization or team. Those within a managerial role will gain practical strategies for driving change and aligning an organization’s culture and people towards adaptability. The models and tools taught can be applied to various contexts, businesses, and industries, ensuring a structured and planned approach to renewing an organization’s systems, infrastructure and operations. Professionals committed to their career development will be able to validate their experience and skills with a certificate from Africa’s leading university.1

1 QS Top Universities (Jun, 2020).

Course curriculum

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Learn to anticipate and address change as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Making the case for change

Module 2: Winning over key stakeholders and influencers

Module 3: Developing strategic change initiatives

Module 4: Creating a climate for change

Module 5: Preparing an implementation plan for change

Module 6: Addressing resistance and removing barriers

Module 7: Monitoring the outcomes of a change initiative

Module 8: Sustaining change in an ever-evolving environment

About the certificate

Learn about change management and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cape Town.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements. Please note, due to additional administrative requirements, at times UCT course certificate delivery may be delayed by several weeks/months.

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