Organisations in Africa and beyond are merging, digitising, restructuring and adapting to funding and market shocks at a pace that outstrips their capacity to bring people along. Culture decides whether new systems and structures are used or quietly ignored, yet it is seldom diagnosed with the same care as finances or processes.

The Applied Change, Culture & Organisational Development Training Course treats culture and change as a practical discipline. Participants learn how to assess the current culture and identify the one the strategy requires, how to build a credible case for change, and how to plan sponsorship, communication, training and reinforcement. They study established models critically, comparing when each helps and where it falls short, and learn core organisational development interventions for teams and whole systems.

The programme is applied throughout. Each participant works on a live or realistic change initiative from their own workplace, producing a culture diagnosis summary, a stakeholder and resistance map, a change roadmap and a measurement plan, with feedback from peers and facilitators at every stage.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Diagnose organisational culture using established frameworks and practical data collection.
• Build a clear case for change and align sponsors and leaders behind it.
• Analyse stakeholders, change impact and sources of resistance.
• Plan communication, training and reinforcement activities across the change journey.
• Select and facilitate organisational development interventions for teams and larger groups.
• Support leaders and managers in coaching people through transition.
• Measure behavioural adoption and sustain change after implementation.

The course is suited to people who initiate, sponsor or support organisational change, including:

• Human resource managers and business partners
• Organisational development and transformation officers
• Project and programme managers delivering change
• Heads of department and senior managers
• Internal and external change consultants
• Public sector reform and performance contracting teams
• NGO and development programme leaders
• Trainers and learning and development specialists

Participants return to work with:

• A culture diagnosis approach and a short survey they can adapt.
• A stakeholder map with tailored engagement actions.
• A change roadmap covering sponsorship, communication, training and reinforcement.
• A set of facilitation designs for team and large group sessions.
• Practical scripts for managers to lead difficult change conversations.
• Indicators for tracking adoption of new behaviours.

The programme is workshop-based and drawn from participants own settings. It uses:

• Facilitated diagnosis of a real or simulated organisation
• Case discussions of reform and restructuring experiences
• Practice sessions in facilitation and coaching conversations
• Peer review of change plans in small groups
• Reflection journals linking models to personal practice

On completing the programme and its practical work, delegates receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.