Expand+Application Deadline: September 2022.

By Email (preferred method)
Please download and complete the application form on www.ipa.ie and email it, along with the items listed below, to undergrad@ipa.ie

By Post
Alternatively, you can complete...

Hide-Application Deadline: September 2022.

By Email (preferred method)
Please download and complete the application form on www.ipa.ie and email it, along with the items listed below, to undergrad@ipa.ie

By Post
Alternatively, you can complete the application form at the end of this prospectus and, including the items listed below, return it by post.

What to Provide (email or post)

Applicants must provide:
• Their full name (this is the name that will appear on any future award parchments).
• A passport-type photograph.
• A photocopy of their passport, birth certificate or driving licence.
• A photocopy of their Leaving Certificate or relevant qualification (only if you are under 21).
• The fee for the programme or confirmation, including a PO number, that fees will be paid by an employer (please contact the Undergraduate Office).

Applications Cannot Be Processed Unless All Relevant Documentation is Included.

Expand+The Programme
Leaders and managers need a broad range of interconnected skills and knowledge to create the processes and appropriate environment to successfully deliver change and innovation. This comprehensive programme integrates a number of eleme...

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Leaders and managers need a broad range of interconnected skills and knowledge to create the processes and appropriate environment to successfully deliver change and innovation. This comprehensive programme integrates a number of elements relevant for planning, communicating and implementing successful organisational change. These elements will assist participants build organisational processes to deliver meaningful change and develop a sustainable culture of innovation. It will enhance participants’ strategic change and people leadership competencies by providing a range of relevant and practical change management frameworks, tools, and techniques.

Is This Programme For You?
This Professional Diploma is ideally suited to those who are:
• Leading, developing or managing change in their organisation
• Leading or managing projects involving a change element
• Managers with a specific organisation development, HR or learning and development brief

A distinguishing feature of this programme is that the academic content is augmented by expert input and focused guidance from change practitioners, who will provide relevant case examples of theory in practice. To benefit fully from the programme, students will relate course content to a change project they are leading. This project forms part of the assessment, but it also provides a vital link between in-classroom learning and the practical realities of the workplace.

Delivery
This programme is delivered through a blend of webinars/ seminars, online material and resources, and contact time with tutors. Students also receive a textbook and a specific reading list.

Expand+Programme Content
The programme covers four modules and the following topics.

Strategic Change:
• Understanding organisations: exploring interlinking themes
of strategy, structure and culture
• The context and environment for change in org...

Hide-Programme Content
The programme covers four modules and the following topics.

Strategic Change:
• Understanding organisations: exploring interlinking themes
of strategy, structure and culture
• The context and environment for change in organisations
• Change planning models and tools
• Leadership and change

Communicating and Imparting Change:
• Developing the business case for change
• Engaging stakeholders
• The importance of communications planning
• Incorporating project and risk management principles
•Measuring, monitoring and reporting on progress

Implementing and Sustaining Change:
• Understanding the people side of change
• Changing organisational culture
• Building capacity to sustain change
• Change within a compliance world
• Evaluation of change initiatives

Project:
• Planning and implementing a change in your workplace
• Project management techniques applied to your project
• Evaluation tools applied to your project