Change Management and Communication
PRCA Diploma in Change Management and Communication
About this change management course
This PRCA change management course will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to make change management more successful. Learn about change management models and how to communicate change. This change management training course includes the theory that underpins practice, including project management – an essential skill for effective change – and shows how to apply it in practice.
Course Detail
Study Support Package
Live interactive online workshops
One to one tutorials
Online library with all the books you need
Individual feedback on your assignment ideas
Study Hub: our bespoke online learning centre
Networking via our LinkedIn group
Easy tutor contact
PRCA accredited
What are the change management course fees, and how to book?
Enrolment and payment is via the PRCA.
Please contact the PRCA team.
Who is this change management course for?
Internal communicators. As an internal communicator, you are probably often asked to support change but change communication is only as good as the change management. This change communication course equips you to do both.
Change managers. You may have been asked to deliver change in your organisation but don’t have the knowledge or understanding of the change management models that you need to make it a success.
Flexible learning. You want to be able to study at a time and pace that works for you.
Experienced or entry-level. The course is suitable if you are new to the field or a more experienced practitioner looking to underpin what you do with some theory, concepts and models.
Learning outcomes
Understand key concepts and models in business change management including waterfall and agile approaches.
Learn about the importance of effective business change leadership. Apply communication and engagement models in a business change management context and advise senior change programme managers/clients. Measure and evaluate communication outputs and outcomes. Identify and manage risks and issues.
Communicate and lead people through change to gain commitment through listening, authenticity and dialogue, communication planning, objective setting and creating the narrative for business change. Explore the psychology of change communication and engagement
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- Full syllabus
- Assignment details
- Reasons to study
- About the PRCA
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Meet your change management course leader Ann Pilkington
“It’s a real privilege to meet and work with so many professional communicators. Studying provides a great opportunity to step back a bit from the “day job” and so I like learning to be reflective, challenging and interactive.”
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Your questions answered
From 1 June 2025 you will need to be a member of the CIPR if doing one of their qualifications. This will be included in the cost of the course and applied at the time of enrolling.
The grade of membership is "Professional Student" at the time of writing this had not been added to the CIPR website but it is equivalent to Affiliate Membership - you can see the benefits on the CIPR website here.
The costs from 1 June are:
- £160 for a 2-year course (PR Diploma and PR Certificate)
- £80 for a 1-year course (Specialist Diplomas and Certificate)
- £38 for the Foundation course
At PR Academy we have been teaching online since we started in 2007. We have a specially designed online learning centre - we don't just put you on Teams!
Our teaching is delivered through a mix of on-demand content, guided reading, live workshop sessions (usually recorded for later playback) plus tutor support. We have an online library that we have curated specially for our courses.
Some courses offer individual tutorials that can be booked and the opportunity to submit an assignment proposal for individual feedback.
It isn’t essential, for example, you can study while on a career break. For some of the higher level courses, you will need experience. For example, for CIPR Diploma level courses you need to have a minimum of five years experience and reasonably senior level.
Some of the assignments are designed to be based on your work but if you aren’t currently employed a tutor can help you with other options.
We offer plenty of support. Many courses offer individual tutorials that can be booked. The course leader is easily contactable and there is always someone in the office who can help with day to day queries.
They aren't heavily academic. We still discuss theory because that’s what makes us better practitioners, but we show how to apply it in practice. We call it applied learning.
The assignments are mostly in the style of business writing rather than academic essays or dissertations.
Most of the courses give you a maximum time to complete - usually one or two years, so there is plenty of flexibility and it is rare to have to extend beyond this.
However, if you do need to extend beyond this there are policies in place to cover this.
