Short Courses

Short courses for career growth

Welcome to our short courses designed for individuals eager to enhance their skills and boost their effectiveness. Our courses address key areas identified by businesses as critical skills gaps, ensuring you gain relevant and in-demand expertise. 

Leading People-centric Change 

Dates: 7 February and 8 February 2025

Location: Durham University Business School Waterside Building, Durham 

The sessions will focus on how you can effectively achieve change, drawing on relevant models, diagnostic tools and techniques enabling you to apply a people-centric approach to engage key stakeholders in the change process. With consideration of the practical challenges of business transformations, you will enhance your capabilities to lead and manage change effectively, focusing on key topics such as the impact of change on wellbeing, ensuring an approach to change that is inclusive, and coping with opposition to change.

This module will focus on the importance of understanding the effects of change on individuals and teams and of engaging them throughout the change journey. It will enhance your skills to manage and lead people through planned transformation changes.  It will do this by setting out frameworks, perspectives and practical approaches which you will be able to apply in practice. By the end of the workshop you will be able to:

• Appreciate the importance of managing and leading the human dynamics of change;
• Be more effective in involving people with change;
• Appreciate and address the potential impact of organisational change on wellbeing;
• Apply practical skills to engage individuals and teams with change;
• Achieve the benefits accrued from sustaining change through involving people in transformations.

View our short introductory video 'Leading People-Centric change'

Hear from Professor Julie Hodges as she introduces our short course 'Leading People-Centric Change'.

Taught by

Professor Julie Hodges, PhD, MA, BA, PHEA, Academic Fellow ICMCI, Senior Fellow FME, CMBE

Julie is a leading expert on change in organisations, particularly the role and impact of people during transformations. She joined the Business School in 2006. Before entering the academic world Julie worked as a business consultant for over 20 years in several profit and non-profit organisations, including PwC. At PwC Julie was responsible for organisational change and management development in a number of companies including Barclays, Shell, BBC, Lloyds, Reuters. Julie has also worked with Vertex where she set up and led a commercial consultancy team. Her first role was with the British Council where she was the Development Consultant for East Asia.  Since joining academia and Durham University Business School Julie has taught a number of modules across the full-time, online & executive MBA programmes including: Leading and Managing People; Management Consultancy; and the Boardroom Exercise.  She has also delivered programmes on leading and managing change as part of the Business School’s Senior Leader Apprenticeship programme and also for companies such as Nissan, Dell Technologies and Carlsberg Marston. 

Julie has held a number of leadership roles within the Business School including Associate Dean for MBA & DBA programmes.

Julie has published in a number of international journals on change in organisations and written several books on organizational change including ‘Managing and Leading People through Organizational Change’ and her latest one ‘People-Centric Organizational Change’

 Julie is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Academic Fellow of the ICMCI (International Council of Management Consulting Institutes) and a Senior Fellow of the Foundation for Management Education (FME). She is also a member of the editorial board of the ‘Management Consulting’ journal.

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Fee

Fee: £1650

Early-bird fee for Durham Alumni: £1500