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Our vetted and proven professionals will help you engage leaders and employees, improve adoption and sustain the change.
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We've earned respect and repeat business from market-leading companies for our expertise in organizational change management. We're thrilled to offer our point of need templates, tools, and workshops!
Understand key change management activities to include in your plan that will have a tremendous impact on your success.
Learn how to demonstrate visible support and remove obstacles for the project team.
Build change management practices across your project portfolio. Ensure integration across initiatives.
Support HR-oriented activities to address impact of change. Support team members during change program.
Understand the information you can share to support the change effort. Support ongoing engagement with stakeholders.
As a leader of impacted team members, you play an important role in managing the change for yourself and then leading your team.
Simple & proven tools help you deliver key change activities (20+ pages).
Proven change templates
Easy-to-use for all team members
Iterative approach
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1-on-1 ChangePro session to develop your change strategy (60 minutes).
High-level change strategy
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The main difference between successful and unsuccessful change programs boils down to leadership. Successful change programs have leaders who sponsor the change, meaning they provide resources, support it publicly, and remove obstacles. Without actively engaged leaders, your change program will fail because it will not receive the attention it needs to move forward.
At the beginning of your project, identify everyone directly and indirectly affected by the change. Once you know the degree of impact and the role you want people to play in the change, you will know who needs the most communication. Remember to include those who, while not directly impacted by the change, have influence over others' perceptions.
At the beginning of your project, create a sponsorship plan that lays out the essential tasks and timing associated with each sponsor's activities. Meet with your sponsor and review the plan and their expectations so that you can get their early commitment to ongoing participation in your project.
Project/program management can help you keep the momentum by holding people accountable for specific tasks and outcomes. Additionally, by gathering information on other change programs, you can better coordinate your efforts so that your employees can handle competing messages and activities.
It is imperative to track and manage risks associated with your project/program. By keeping a risk log that all project members can access, assigning ownership over risk mitigations, and reviewing the risk log regularly, you can minimize the risks to your success. Additionally, alerting key sponsors early to high-risk factors will enable them to work with you to deal with them.
On a regular basis, you should plan to have project meetings with team leaders who are responsible for specific tasks and deliverables. This way, you can ensure that progress is happening according to plan and that risks are proactively managed. Additionally, you should have a standing meeting with your main sponsor and decision-making meetings with your other leaders, as needed. Again, this will help you manage expectations and remove obstacles from your path.
