All too often excellent initiatives conceived by highly intelligent and dedicated people fail to deliver on the goals set for them at the outset.
· Introduction - The Basics
· The Change Pyramid – Creating recognition and understanding that there is more to successful change than simply task implementation.
· The Eight Elements of Change – Understanding how the strategic elements of change are critical in supporting task attainment.
· The Four Elements of Culture – Understanding what is truly meant when one says “to improve we need to change the culture” and what to do to make it happen.
· Resistance – How to recognize it, address its causes and mitigate its potential negative effects.
· The Web of Change –A useful tool that will enable assessment of your change effort.
· Change – Root Cause Failure Analysis – A discussion of how to use the results of the web survey to deliver value to your organization.
· The Goal Achievement Model – The introduction of a tool to make certain that change is sustained.
· Roadmap of Change
· Addressing Resistance
What will you learn?
Target Audience
Plant managers, senior maintenance managers & reliability managers and other organizational leaders who want to implement successful long-lasting change. This is NOT a regular change management course. It is focused on the challenges that maintenance & reliability professionals face every day as they attempt to break the maintenance paradigms.
Certification
We offer all our students a course certificate as “Qualified Facilitator on the subject of Culture Change”. In order to be certified , students must complete the online course or the 2-day training course successfully.
Unique E-Course + direct online coaching and support by Stepen Thomas
The E-course consists of 23 modules that students can follow on their own pace from any PC with access to the internet. The E-course covers the same content as the explained above. Students will also have direct contact with Stephen J Thomas, the global guru in Culture Change in the field of Maintenance and Reliability, who has set-up the e-course. So Students will not only can get a well founded theoretical course, but also receive direct and personal advice on the Cultural change challenges in their own project.
Advantages of the blended learning method used in for this e-course
•You will have the opportunity of taking blended learning courses designed to improve your understanding of various topics within the reliability and maintenance arena
•With the blended learning format you will be able to control your own learning process
•The modules presented in each of our course are presented with in the majority of the cases the voice of the author of the material
•You will receive pertinent additional reading material. Often this will be a copy of the book written by the author that is directly linked to the course
•You will have the ability to interact with the course facilitator through e-mail and where practical through a face-to-face SKYPE conference.
•The modules each have work related exercises that will assist you in taking what you have learned and applying it to your work situation. In the vast majority of cases these exercises will be reviewed by and commented on by the course facilitator.
The content of this e-course is based on the book ‘Improving Maintenance & Reliability Through Cultural Change’, and ‘The Journey to Improved Business Performance’, both available in the BEMAS webshop at www.bemas.org
About the lecturer
Steve Thomas has 40 years of experience working in maintenance within the petrochemical industry. During this time, through personal involvement at all levels of the maintenance and reliability work process, he has gained vast experience in all phases of the business. Coupled with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and M.S. degrees in both Systems Engineering and Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania, this experience has enabled him to add significant value to the many projects on which he has worked. In addition, he has published seven books on change management and related subjects. A few of his titles: ‘The Journey to Improved Business Performance’, ‘Improving Maintenance & Reliability Through Cultural Change’, ‘Asset Data Integrity is Serious Business’, and ‘Successfully Managing Change in Organizations: A User's Guide’. He has presented training classes on his material in the US, Canada and South America.
Participation fee (All prices mentioned are excl. 21% VAT)
E-Course: € 695,- pp. / € 595,- pp. for BEMAS member companies
Included: the 23 module e-course, a book for related reading, exercises to enhance change management skills and instructor interaction via e-mail.
