Project Management & Change Management

Big or small, successful project management is a juggling act of motivating teams, coordinating schedules and maintaining a budget  Change management, on the other hand, entails engaging the people side of projects and mobilizing teams to execute when the project is ready.  Our time tested project and change management techniques help our clients make things happen on their teams and in their organizations.

How it Works

Less than 20% of all projects finish on time, within scope and on budget. Yes, you read that correctly:  Less than 20%.  In today’s workplace, employees often find themselves taking on multiple projects, working with fewer resources and pressed for time.  Projects also require collaboration amongst multiple employees, each responsible for various aspects of the project.  Without a uniform method for managing projects, their related tasks, resources and relationships, project managers run the risk of losing control of the success of the project. 

Just as there is a process to completing a project, every project requires a change process for helping people get on board with and then execute the new process, technology or strategy.  Without this, many projects wither as they become bogged down with change resistance or at best half-hearted implementation.

Our expertise in Project and Change Management provides organizations with the necessary tools to build a strong project plan, mobilize their workforce to execute and make exciting things happen for their clients. 

Our Approaches to Project and Change Management:

Workshops

 

Project Management

Our Project Management workshops are not lectures:  we take a hands-on, simulation-based approach to learning.  Working through multiple project simulations using our proven process, participants are able to experience the process from start to finish – testing ideas, confronting challenges – before implementing changes to their existing work.

There are a lot of moving parts to a project:  from the various roles played by each member of the project team, to the technology that can aid in project planning.  In our Project Management suite of workshops, you will find a workshop that addresses each of these moving parts.  And if you don’t?  Let us know!  We’re happy to work with you to create a workshop that fits your unique project management needs.  A sample of our workshops include:

  • Project Management Breakthroughs
  • Managing Your Project with Microsoft Project (Beginner)
  • Influencing for Project Managers
  • Working Smart with Microsoft Project (Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Project Management Breakthroughs for Executives & Project Sponsors

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Developing the Change Imperative

 

The objective of this course is to help the Executive Team determine its strategy for building both competency and capacity for change across the entire organization.  We  also spend time linking change to business and performance goals.

  • Overview of Best Practices in Creating a Culture of Change:
  • Change is a process that should be enabled, not managed.
  • The change process must be linked to business and performance goals.
  • Building capacity to change is a strategic imperative.
  • Building capacity for change is an evolutionary process.

 

Change Leadership

 

The primary focus of this program is to familiarize leaders with the human components of change and to map out a process for launching and delivering change successfully.

  • Understanding the psychology of change and why teams might experience resistance
  • Fostering positive approaches to challenging and/or stressful changes
  • Developing proficiency with a change leadership model
  • Improving overall levels of awareness, motivation, knowledge, and skills
  • Developing coaching and communication approaches to change.

 

Change Management

 

The primary focus of this program is to familiarize leaders with the process components of change and to help leaders develop proficiency with the tools of change management.

  • Preparing your team for change
  • Implementing change with the least resistance
  • Managing resistance during the process
  • Using sponsor communications effectively
  • Reinforcing post change for sustainability

 

Change Readiness

 

The Change Readiness program brings change management principles to front-line employees and individual contributors. These are the people who experience change the most but who frequently have the least amount of control. This program delivers the awareness and skills required to become more flexible and agile when faced with change.

  • Developing more personal flexibility and agility in executing changes
  • Fostering positive approaches to challenging and/or stressful changes
  • Understanding the psychology of change and why they might experience resistance to some changes but not others
  • Developing proficiency with a change model
  • Improving overall levels of awareness, motivation, knowledge, and skills
 

Change Messaging

 

It is critical that leaders are highly competent in communication and messaging to keep their teams informed and motivated. This program provides information and skill building activities required to develop and deliver more powerful change communications. 

  • Drilling down into communication planning for leaders
  • 3-phase Change Messaging process
  • Building messages with AMKS model
  • Designing the message
  • Dealing with tough questions

 

 

 

Associated Resource Tools

We offer many resources when it comes to project and change management.  When partnering with us, you will have the opportunity to work with specially designed tools and products – everything from project boards, job aides, process maps, learning guides and more – that will help you plan all of your future projects.  These trademarked tools have been used by organizations around the globe to help them implement changes long after the training ends.