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Embracing and Driving Change

(25 reviews)
by Anna Faherty

In a world where change is becoming an essential part of improving our processes it's important to know how to anticipate, embrace and talk about it. Discover how to effectively get ready for change as well as how to use it as a strategic tool to help you exploit opportunities.

£100+vat
4 CPD hours
120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Use key strategies to establish yourself as a trusted advisor when initiating change.
  • Explore best practice for effective change communication and consider the value of transparency, authenticity, and two-way communication.
  • Understand how to anticipate and embrace change as a route to exploiting opportunities.
  • Recognise how different people react to change and how it impacts them.
  • Effectively monitor the success of change initiatives and how to stay "change-ready".
  • Think about how to sustain new ways of working to make change stick.

About the course

Change is an inevitable part of our lives and work as accountants and finance professionals. It allows you to grow and expand your perceptions, beliefs, and performance; evolving into anything that a company needs help with.

From looking at how change impacts us, to how to adopt new technologies and processes, this course explores how you can recognise change as an opportunity for business and personal growth. With the right changes, productivity and efficiency will increase, and it can be used as a strategic tool to help you exploit those opportunities and consider what the future of your own profession might look like. Discover how to celebrate change, how adopting an agile work culture can be beneficial and how to select the most appropriate communication messages to use.

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Author

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Anna Faherty

Anna Faherty is an award-winning teacher and researcher who runs her own content development and training consultancy, Strategic Content. Anna is expert at communicating complex technical information to non-technical audiences. She uses the phrase, "Communicating Stuff. Really well." to describe what she does and organisations of all shapes and sizes endorse that by asking for her help. By working with a broad range of clients, Anna has acquired experience of many different sectors and many different aspects of many different sectors and learned how to adapt to different working cultures.

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Smith J
19 Nov 2025
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Smith J
19 Nov 2025
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Smith J
19 Nov 2025
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