Change Management: Real World Strategies & Tools (Udemy.com)
A Practical Introduction to Change Management and Leadership for Managers and Project Managers
Created by: Mike Clayton
Last updated December 2025
What you will learn
- Convince people about the need for change
- Evaluate how people feel about the changes
- Paint a compelling picture of the future
- Anticipate how people will respond to change
- Anticipate the impact of change on operational performance
- Plan effective project communications
- Handle resistance to change effectively, to win over resisters
How it compares
Against the other 230 rated Udemy courses in Leadership & Management on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 22% of them
- Reviews8,656#32 of 231 by number of reviews
- Length2.2 hourslonger than 52% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 62% of them
Course Description
Change is an inevitable part of organizational life
And if you have any leadership role, you'll soon be called upon to help lead it.
But, we often fear change. This leads to resistance.
So, managing and leading change is a challenging role. Change Management will take you outside of your comfort zone and beyond your existing management and supervision tool-set.
But change is predictable
You can anticipate how people will respond, and what you need to do to engage them positively. You can plan, prepare, and handle the resistance that will certainly come.
To do that, you need practical change management tools and models
And this course will give you them.
More than that, you'll learn:
how the need for change arises,
how to communicate it, and
the way to lead people through it.
Here are the main topics you'll cover:
The Cycle of Change
Barriers to Change
The first reason why people resist change
Tools for change leaders
Stakeholder analysis
How people respond to change: the change curve
The impact of change on operational performance: the Satir Curve
The three phases of a change program: the Lewin Model
The Onion Model of resistance to change
How to win over resisters
Ongoing Project: Change Management Case Study
Throughout the course, you will have short exercises to do, that use the skills we'll cover. They are based on a real organizational change project. Other students and your tutor will support you, endorse your successes, and help you with your questions.
Prior Experience
The only prior experience you need is working life. But, if you have management or project management experience, you'll find it even easier!
Your Tutor
Your tutor is Dr. Mike Clayton. As a senior project, program and change manager at international consulting firm, Deloitte, Mike led large and complex change projects for his clients.
Now, as a trainer and facilitator, he has been applying what he learned and teaching it to others. This course represents 15 years' experience of what tools students find most helpful, and 25 years experience in business, managing change, large and small.
Your Unconditional, No-questions, 30-Day Guarantee
The best way to assess how valid this material is in you culture is to try it out. I am so confident that this course will change your life that I offer you an unconditional, no questions asked, full 30 day money-back-in-full guarantee. If you don't think this will give you the tools to do more with your time, then just ask for your money back.
And What if you have questions?
I will be on hand to answer your questions if you get stuck, puzzled, or just want to know more. As a professional trainer, this is what I do, and I promise to respond within 24 hours of your question arriving with me from Udemy.
Enroll Now
Enroll for this course now, so you can start to regain control of your life straight away.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
8,656 Reviews
Mike Clayton
Dr Mike Clayton is a business trainer, author and speaker. Since 2002, he has been helping professionals, managers and leaders to excel in their roles with management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training.
Mike has written over a dozen books for major publishers like Wiley, Macmillan and Pearson, including: Powerhouse, How to Manage a Great Project, How to Speak so People Listen, Brilliant Time Management, and The Influence Agenda.
Mike's professional background is 12 years as a project management professional with the London office of international management consultancy Deloitte. Prior to that, Mike had an academic career in Physics, working at the world renowned Schuster Laboratory of The University of Manchester.
Mike currently has 14 courses on Udemy, with a long list of successful seminars and training courses to convert into video format.
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Reviews
By Tolulope Oderinde on 9/11/2026
YES, it was a good one and the time spent really worth it. Before now, i understand that change is inevitable in life. But i never envisaged all those resistance that are associated with it. As much as there are resistance and resisters, i have also learned that there are tools, methods and approaches not to manage, but to engage those resistance. I enjoyed those cycles of change, Onion Models, Perception positions to mention but few. And finally, those role plays. They are fantastic way of learning
By Ehiremen Darlington Francis on 6/22/2026
well it broaden my knowledge about change , also it also make me to realize that during the process of change that there must be barriers like worker or individual will find it difficult to embrace it immediately
By Ryan Huxley on 6/5/2026
This class on change management was excellent! The methodological approach and practical examples given were extremely helpful, especially for those who haven't had any formal training in change management.
By Satarupa Sen Debnath on 4/9/2026
gud.................
By Anup Shah on 1/10/2026
Honestly this course is eye opener for the change management techniques. Honesty, Patience, Rapport building, Trust is the main thing of the change management. Anchor has put down these thoughts in Lucid way. Thanks.
By Alan Hirsch on 12/24/2025
Many good concepts and techniques. Appreciate the minimal use of jargon. Not sure about the emphasis on the Lewin model, it ignores many other proven change models - ADKAR, McKinsey, Kotter, Nudge Theory, etc.
By Himanshu Makhija on 12/23/2025
Would be great if you could bring everything together in a nice summary to remember everything we learnt at the end. There were too many frameworks and I am afraid I will not remember everything. Would be great to have one page for everything, key things to remember. Also the resource workbook is incomplete, some of the models / pages are not as shown in the video (onion framework as an example)
By Anonymized User on 11/15/2025
This course tells us how to manage and lead a change properly, how to make others understand the importance of the change relevant to them, I learned more after the course, recommend to you strongly!
By Benny Simukoko on 11/13/2025
The course is excellent and timely. It provides all the necessary tools required in Change Management. I'm now equipped with more tools than I expected. Thanks.
By Mevis Kasongo Chisanga on 11/9/2025
i learnt the different barriers to change that my impact an organization such politics, meaning where there are more people in the room, diverse perspectives are the same as political views at a national level. Organizational change takes time to be fully accepted by everyone there is therefore need for tactful approach/ strategy.
By Sheryn Kirkpatrick-Papineau on 11/15/2020
As a working mom with two kids trying to skill-up during the pandemic this was exactly what I had hoped. Nicely chunked out to fit in over my work days, with simple and practical approaches. Excellent course - well worth it.
By Hakeem Idowu on 11/15/2020
Another brilliant course delivered. Thanks.
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