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How to Create an Effective Change Management Plan

Planning and managing change, both cultural and technological, will be one of the most challenging elements of your project. Understanding the key areas of change management, and the associated traps and pitfalls others have encountered, is critical to your success.

The Change Management Toolkit is a leader’s guide that contains templates and guidelines to help you effectively employ change management and write a complete and professional change management plan. Assessment tools and implementation guidelines will help you implement an effective change management strategy.

The Change Management Toolkit teaches you to:

• Manage the human side of change, not just the business side.

• Develop a change management strategy for your project.

• Create a communication plan.

• Actively manage resistance to change.

Toolkit elements:

• Change management overview - what is change management, why is it important, what can I do to manage change effectively

• Assessments - tools for evaluating your change and your organization's readiness for change

• Templates - critical document templates for planning and executing change management - provided on CD-ROM

• Theories and perspectives - a practical discussion of change principles and concepts

• Change management process - guidelines, templates and checklists for the entire change management process including planning templates for communications, training and coaching

• Customization guidelines - change management should reflect your unique change and the organization that is changing - learn how to adapt to the specifics of your project

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Toolkit structure:

Preparing for change: Build a foundation for managing change. Examine theories and perspectives that impact how people go through changes. Assess your specific change characteristics and the organizational attributes that impact change management.  Develop you team structure and sponsorship model.

Managing change: Develop key change management plans: communications, sponsorship, coaching, training, resistance management. Create a project plan for implementing change management activities and learn how to use the ADKAR model.

Reinforcing change: Assess the effectiveness of change management activities. Identify and overcome obstacles. Build buy-in and celebrate successes.

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