Did you know that organizational change management is specifically designed to help projects succeed? It solves the puzzle of why, when project managers do everything right, employees still struggle with the change.
The missing piece? You must expand your focus beyond the technical side of things, and bring the people side into the equation. Because at the end of the day, it’s people that must change. Not just the systems and processes and programs and so forth that you’re in charge of changing.
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5 Actionable Tactics for Fearless Engagement with Sponsors
Your project sponsors are critical to project success. It’s important to equip them with the strategies needed for effectively engaging with and influencing employees about the change.
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5 Ways to Help Sponsors Build a Coalition of Support for Change
Organizational changes are far more likely to succeed when your primary project sponsor builds a coalition of support among important stakeholders in the organization.
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CLARC: The Role of People Managers in Change Management
People managers are closest to the front-line employees who must adopt the new processes and systems you’re implementing. It’s important that managers understand the roles they play in making your changes happen.
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5 Tips for Better Communication Around Change
For your project to succeed, communications must focus on the right people at the right times and in the right ways. An intentional, structured plan with focused messages helps impacted employees understand and accept the changes faster.
Integrating Project Management and Change Management
Whether you add change management skills to your project team, partner with a change manager within your organization, or leverage an external change management expert to help, you’ll want to integrate project management and change management for better project results.
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Change Management and Project Management: A Side-by-Side Comparison
These disciplines bring important structure to the technical and people sides of implementing change. They vary in terms of focus and approach, yet each is essential to moving individuals through change and your projects succeeding.
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Areas of Project Management and Change Management To Integrate
Project management and change management align and intersect at various stages of a project. For effective integration, you need to align people, processes, tools, methodologies and results.
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When To Integrate Change Management With Project Management
Project management and change management are complementary disciplines with a shared objective: success of the project or initiative. But to work most effectively, project teams must integrate these approaches early in the project lifecycle and even before kickoff.
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Integrating Change Management and Project Management
An integrated approach enables project managers and change practitioners to work toward a shared definition of success, more effectively align and sequence activities, and avoid duplicating efforts by integrating common tools.
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Managing Resistance to Change
Understanding why employees might resist your change, and how to best support impacted people and groups going through the change process, can help to minimize their resistance to the change you’re trying to implement.
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Managing Resistance to Change
Anticipating resistance, identifying root causes of resistance, and engaging the right resistance managers can help ensure project success. Work through a case study to see how to put these key concepts into action.