Please note: These courses are available only to State of Ohio employees working at a State Agency, Board, or Commission.  We are currently unable to offer these classes to those who work for a public university, a local government, or the private sector.  For programs currently offered to employees of local governments, schools, and public universities, please click here.

LeanOhio: Introduction to Managing Change

Change Management (CM) is a structured discipline to address the people side of change. Understanding CM allows project managers and teams to analyze the willingness and capacity of a stakeholder group to begin their transition to the future state and prepare them to accept and adopt the changes without loss of productivity and talent.  This training is a high-level, basic overview of why and how state employees should integrate CM with continuous improvement methodologies to help sustain the changes we experience in state government.

When CM training participants complete their training session, they are newly equipped to:

• Effectively identify change barriers for individuals transitioning from current to future state
• Realize the importance of listening to the Voice of the Employee (VOE)
• Identify resistance to change before it becomes a barrier 

Course materials can be accessed here.

More information about CM and additional resources and tools can be found here.

Introduction to Managing Change was designed by a public-sector team of Lean Six Sigma Belts who are also Change Management Certified Practitioners.