Change Guide Educational Resources

Change Guide in Action

This interactive virtual workshop on the Change Guide in Action, features your Health and Social Care colleagues shared experiences of delivering effective and sustainable change. In 2025, the workshops will focus on three main themes (1) Working with resistance to change (2) Delivering change activities – Define Design Deliver (3) Factors to be monitored while managing change.

Learning outcomes include:

  1. Provide participants with real case examples of a co-design people and culture change approach, from staff who have used the Change Guide in practice.
  2. Focus is on an examination of the Change Guide in action and the application of the core concepts, tools and templates to a specific shared experience.
  3. Signpost other resources about the Change Guide to further participant’s use of the Guide as a practical tool for change.
  4. Highlighting key resources for the following themes: (1) Working with resistance to change (2) Delivering change activities – Define Design Deliver (3) Factors to be monitored while managing change.

Schedule for Change Guide in Action Workshops with themes in 2025

Workshop will run from 10.30am to 1pm

22nd January 2025 - Working with resistance to change (This Workshop is fully booked)

26th February 2025 – Delivering change activities - Define, Design, Deliver (This Workshop is fully booked)

26th March 2025 - Factors to be monitored while managing change

23rd April 2025- Working with resistance to change

28th May 2025 - Delivering change activities - Define, Design, Deliver

25th June 2025 - Factors to be monitored while managing change

24th September 2025 – Working with resistance to change

22nd October 2025 - Delivering change activities - Define, Design, Deliver

26th November 2025 - Factors to be monitored while managing change

Contact details

Register by emailing changeguide@hse.ie with subject line: Change Guide in Action

Change Consultation Clinic

Have you a specific ‘change challenge’ you would value support with?

The Change Consultation Clinic is facilitated by experienced HSE Organisation Development Practitioners, Organisation & Development & Design team in Kells, Co Meath.

People’s Needs Defining Change- Health Services Change Guide informs our practitioners’ practice. It is the essential guide to change, mapping out a step-by-step approach - assisting you to address the ‘messiness of change’.

The Change Guide is evidence-based and has been researched in an Irish context. It is the policy framework and agreed approach to change signed off by HSE Leadership and co-sponsored and agreed with the Trade Unions.

The pre-registration questions focus on your service and a live change challenge you would like to consult on.

How to register for a Change Consultation Clinic

  1. Email changeguide@hse.ie with subject line: Change Consultation Clinic to register.
  2. We will send you a short questionnaire to enable the OD practitioners to better understand your service and your specific change challenge.
  3. When we receive the completed questionnaire, we will confirm your place and time for a one-to-one session.

Please note there are limited places so early registration is advised

When and where are the clinics

Clinics will run from 10am to 1pm; your appointment time (up to 1 hour in duration) will be agreed directly with you by the Organisation Development and Change Practitioner assigned to your application and clinics are held virtually.

Schedule for change consultation clinics in 2025 (2nd Thursday of the month except for July and August):

  • 9 January
  • 13 February
  • 13 March
  • 10 April
  • 8 May
  • 12 June
  • 11 September
  • 9 October
  • 13 November
  • 11 December

Organisation Development and Design, Kells. Co Meath.

Email: changeguide@hse.ie 

Phone: 046 925 1461