Change Management for Project Success

You can manage projects to be on time and on budget, but delivering the on-value component requires that you get everyone engaged in the project. Every project is a change project, but change isn’t as easy as managing the breakdown of the big picture into the tasks to be done. This training examines what it takes to motivate people to do their tasks and to use the results of the project.

This training will review tools and techniques that are compatible with any of the change frameworks you may use in your organization—from Lewin, Stages of Change, Bridges, Kotter, Galpin, Prosci ADKAR, ACMP, Rogers, Burke, Beckhard-Harris, McKinsey 7S, Satir, and more. You’ll quickly learn the various models and how they are similar to—and different from—one another so you can apply your knowledge of change to evolving circumstances.

Reaching past resistance, you’ll learn how resistance is formed, what to do before it surfaces, and how to counter it when it does. You’ll find the hidden causes that make people verbally commit but then later freeze or subvert the change. Tools like Reiss’ 16 Basic Motivators will help you discover what motivates your stakeholders.

Marketing- and psychology-informed communications skills will make it more likely that stakeholders will read your communications—and respond to them. Instead of wondering whether your messages are getting through, you’ll know you’re getting their attention and they’re going to act.

Completing this training will allow you to coordinate effective change as a part of your project—both to get the project accomplished and to take advantage of the project results when it’s delivered.