This course focuses on leaders’ crucial role in initiating change in the workplace. Leaders learn how to introduce a change initiative and lead discussions with employees to explore how best to implement the changes. These objectives are to help leaders:

• Understand the importance of commitment to and ownership of change for themselves and others.
• Effectively introduce change, explore change, and overcome people’s resistance to change.
• Minimize the negative impact, on individuals, work groups, and the organization, of not adapting to change.
• Sustain an environment that embraces change and celebrates successes.

This course counts as an elective course toward the Management Development Certificate. It may also be taken individually without pursuing the certificate.

The courses in the Management Development Certificate suite are targeted for managers in particular job classifications. This course is open to UCLA staff and faculty managers in roles with payroll titles classified at the following levels (including equivalent IT and academic classifications):

• Roles currently classified under the Career Tracks system:
  • MGR1 through MGR4
  • Professional 4 and 5
• Roles still classified under the pre-Career Tracks system:
  • MSP – all levels
  • PSS-5 through PSS-7 

(Note, roles classified at Career Tracks Supervisor/SUPV levels — i.e. job titles that end in SUPV 1 or SUPV 2 — are generally not eligible to take this course.)

Supervisors who are not classified at the levels above but who have attained the Supervisory Leadership Principles Certificate – Enhanced and the Supervisory HR Principles Certificate are also eligible to enroll.

For additional information, see the Management Development Certificate.

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