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The year is coming to a close and a new one
is around the corner. Prosci and the Change Management
Learning Center are closing out 2008 with a series of
tutorials to help you position yourself and your projects
for success. The Neutralizing
change threats in the new year series will
address some of the biggest obstacles currently facing change
management professionals and project leaders with tangible
steps you can take to perform at your best.
Over the coming weeks, the Change Management
Learning Center will release a featured tutorial on each of
the six activities below geared toward helping you
neutralize the biggest threats to the success of your
projects:
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Engaging a missing sponsor
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Managing resistance to change
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Building middle management support and
alignment
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Planning for change management
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Evaluating overall project health
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Avoiding change saturation
Where did the threats come from?
The six threats selected for this series
draw upon best practices findings in the
2007 Best Practices in Change Management
benchmarking report.
The first four change threats parallel the
biggest obstacles identified by participants in the study.
When asked to identify the biggest obstacle to successful
change, the top four answers were:
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Ineffective change sponsorship from
senior leaders
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Resistance to the change from
employees
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Poor support and alignment with middle
management
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Lack of change management resources and
planning
Overall project health refers to the key
building blocks of any successful change -
Leadership/Sponsorship, Project Management and Change
Management. These three elements were highlighted in the
2007 study when participants described what they would do
differently on their next project.
Finally, change saturation was an emerging
issue identified in the 2007 study. Organizations are
expecting more and more change in the coming years and have
started to feel the pain of operating in a change-saturated
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