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Certified Local Change Agent (CLCA) Training and Certification

The certification professionals need to seamlessly adopt and implement change.

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About CLCA Training and Certification

Overview

Change occurs whether we want it to or not. While it can be difficult, change also brings new opportunities. 

When change is managed well, organizations work better and reach their goals more easily. It can increase productivity and create new chances for success. But it can also cause stress, worry, and resistance.

Our Certified Local Change Agent training helps professionals of different backgrounds understand how to manage change in positive ways.

View our training options and begin learning the interpersonal skills to support colleagues and facilitate idea-generating activities.

CLCA Training and Certification

  • The Certified Local Change Agent course focuses on the wider impacts of organizational transformations and the techniques to ensure that proposed changes are understood and adopted seamlessly.
  • This certification features a two-day course that helps change leaders assess readiness for change as well as techniques to help people adapt.
  • You can prepare for this certification by booking either an online (virtual) class or attending in-person training.
  • The typical duration of this course is 2 days.
  • Pricing is available from our Accredited Training Organization (ATO) network.
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Who is CLCA Certification for?

Our Certified Local Change Agent training is for professionals who want to further their understanding of organizational change and the techniques used to ensure its smooth adoption and implementation, including:

  • Current and aspiring Change Managers.
  • Professionals regularly involved in change, such as HR, Communications, and Training specialists.
  • Managers and supervisors responsible for leading their teams through change.
  • Junior and senior managers.
  • Non-managerial staff.
  • Professionals wishing to understand how to adapt to organizational change who might not be pursuing a specialist change manager role.

Benefits of CLCA Training and Certification

For Individuals

  • Effectively provide personal support for colleagues going through organizational change.
  • Support idea-generating activities such as the use of simple process-mapping techniques.
  • Help develop local change plans which identify what will specifically change in their work area and how best to introduce those changes.
  • Mitigate resistance to organizational change.
  • Engage colleagues using simple facilitated sessions to promote effective change implementation in the given work area.
  • Develop personal and interpersonal skills to support role as a local change agent.

For Organizations

  • Strengthens change leadership across the organization by equipping professionals with the right tools and frameworks to guide smooth organizational transitions.
  • Helps organizations establish a collaborative culture by providing methods for giving and receiving constructive feedback.
  • Enhances facilitation skills with preparation training that ensures meetings are well-structured, risk-aware, and productive—which saves time and improves outcomes.
  • Helps leaders assess and address change-readiness gaps to ensure initiatives are launched when teams are best-equipped to succeed.

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Study materials

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The Effective Change Manager's Handbook
Book (English)
By
Richard Smith, David King, Ranjit Sidhu and Dan Skelsey
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The Effective Change Manager's Handbook - eBook
eBook (English)
By
Richard Smith, David King, Ranjit Sidhu and Dan Skelsey
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