Change and change management. On the surface, these terms may seem interchangeable. However, ther...
Change, our favorite topic around here, is happening at Prosci in full ...
If you are just beginning to implement change management on a project, r...
Since 1994, Prosci has been listening to and engaging with clients around the world to help peopl...
One of the genuine joys that I get in my job as Research Product Family Coordinator at Prosci is ...
Is certification really necessary? Doesn’t experience alone qualify us? I understand the quandary...
Over the past 20 years, the use of structured methodologies for managing the people side of ...
At a project’s outset, change practitioners rightly spend considerable energy identifying senior-...
Active and visible sponsorship is the single greatest contributor to th...
Sponsors need change management practitioners, and practitioners need sponsors. Each provides the...
Change occurs as a process, not as an event. Organizational change does not happen instantaneousl...
Want to know how to engage your sponsors and increase their change mana...
You may already know the ABCs of sponsorship—Active and visible participation, <...
In my role at Prosci, I have the privilege of working with senior executive teams across all diff...
As a senior executive, sponsor of change, and Executive Instructor for Prosci Canada teachi...
How do you establish the scope of change management, and why does it matter? By creating a workin...
As we enter a new year, the need for change management is greater than ever. People Read Story
With the new year, it’s time to start thinking about new goals for change management in our organ...
Managing and supporting front-line employees through change is essential for the success of your ...
Do you know how to prepare for change? The Prosci methodology begins not with change management a...
For over a decade, Prosci research participants have...
Managers play critical roles in times of change. In fact, two decades of Prosci research and our ...
Last time we explored what can happen when there is no effort to actively sustain a change (SPOIL...
Recently, we talked about what change managers do to...
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Change initiatives often produce confusion and ambiguity both for us as change practitioners and ...
Over a decade of research supports that projects with excellent change management are six times m...
Many organizations are looking to build enterprise-wide change management capabilities and equip ...
I have reached that stage in my life where all my close friends and family members have at least ...
Growing up, my mother constantly struggled to get th...
This October, Prosci released findings from two new ...
The new Prosci.com website is live! The site offers a more ...
“Priority is the function of context,” says Stephen Covey. So how do you position the value of ch...
Supply chain projects often demand significant resources to complete, so managing them effectivel...
You’ve probably heard about the four C’s of diamonds: color, clarity, cut and carat weight. Intro...
I spend a significant portion of my time working with new change practitioners following Prosci’s...
How can you obtain the skills to keep up with bigger, faster and more complex change? What is the...
Once people understand the Prosci ADKAR® M...
As urban gardening continues to grow in popularity, people have become increasingly creative in h...
Want to know how to engage your sponsors and increase their change mana...
In today’s global marketplace, organizations that ca...
Over the last few decades, the discipline of change management has emerged and evolved. Wha...
Do you need to build buy-in for an Enterprise Change Management deployment at your organization? ...
The magnitude of a given change will impact how employees react and how you should manage the cha...
Do you have a project sponsor named, but lack the true sponsorship you ...
DSV Global Transport and Logistics offers transport services worldwide and employs around 44,000 ...
Employees fall into three groups when faced with cha...
Oshkosh Corporation is a global manufacturing company that designs and builds the world’s toughes...
Effective change management always includes reinforcement, but projects often overlo...
The annual Change Management conference by the Association of Change Management Professionals is ...
“This has been really informative, but my plate is really full, and I need to get back to the off...
A structured approach to the change process is a critical concept in developing a successful and ...
Do you have what you need to win at change? These change practitioners are utilizing the latest a...
As we prepared for the release of our tenth Best Practices in Change Management report o...
The resounding theme from two decades of change mana...
Managers have always been a key lever to success in ...
Since the beginning iterations of Prosci’s change ma...
Many industry-leading organizations are building change competency and solidifying their change m...
Once you’ve hired a new change management practitioner or team member, how do you ensure they hav...
The path of organizational change is littered with good ideas that never delivered on the results...
Peter Drucker famously observed, “what gets measured gets managed.” In the change space, measurem...
Integrating change management and project management has been an area of study for over a decade ...
To respond to recent changes, organizations are deploying Agile methods and mindsets using iterat...
“In a project using an Agile method, change management must adapt and be flexibl...
There are many people you may have discussions with regarding change management. To be effe...
In our age of innovation and sophistication, I am always amazed by the power of the throw-back. W...
When people do not share a common language, it can lead to confusing, even hilarious results. Con...
Change management as a discipline is almost unrecogn...
Building role-based individual change competencies i...
How do you know if your change management approach i...
In brief: you can build greater buy-in and understanding of change management with project ...
In study after study, Prosci has seen a common denominator to successfully transitioning in...
Many organizations are pursuing the application of change management on specific projects and ini...
Change management assessments are commonly touted by consultants as a key step in the change mana...
When the people side of change is ignored or poorly ...
Changes ultimately come to life through the individuals who have to do their jobs differently as ...
Prosci's methodology is the collective lessons learned by thousands of change practitioners and p...
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Change management's purpose is clear - to ensure that changes del...
We receive inquiries every day from organizations looking to build enterprise-wide change capabil...
Where were you in 2004? The answers among us will be wide reaching but perhaps we all had one thi...
‘Unpack’ is a word that entered our business vocabulary pretty recently and stuck. It refers to a...
If you are a change practitioner, chances are you've had several questions about how to begin app...
Why do we need change management?
The answer may seem obvious to those of us w...
The Prosci 3-Phase Process has been around for over a decade. Phase Two, ...
While the data is quite clear that projects will be more successful if you apply change managemen...
As 2016 comes to an end, we shift our focus to 2017 and the new opportunities and challenges on t...
How do you begin to have the "what is change management" discussion? And how does the person you ...
Why do we do change management? To build excellent plans? To abide by best practices in busi...
The idea of change occurring in three distinct phases is found in most change management literatu...
How do you introduce change management to the stakeholders of a project you are supporting? Below...
Imagine that you, an experienced change management practitioner, are assigned a new change initia...
Leading organizations are realizing that the ability to deliver results in times of change is a c...
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The pace of change is increasing and with it the demand for experienced change leaders. How can y...
Change management has made many important strides over the course of the last several years. One ...
As change management professionals, we are constantly reminding our colleagues, clients and leade...
The research tells us that projects with excellent change management are 79% more likely to meet ...
As more companies in the utilities industry implement technological changes, culture changes or r...
Building an enterprise change capability is tricky business. One of the many challenges leaders o...
The Prosci ADKAR Model gives us five outcomes individuals must achieve in order ...
In the Prosci ADKAR Model, knowledge and ability are two disti...
Now more than ever, organizations are increasing their use of technology and looking to leverage ...
I don’t know about you, but when I’m crossing a bridge, I want it to be solid. I am not one of th...
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Last week, change management professionals from around the globe converged on Dallas, TX, for the...
In our last post, we talked about the importance of building awareness of the ne...
What is your finish line?
That’s the question Mark Dorsett, a frequent global spe...
I was one of those dogged (or, as I like to think, “passionate”) children who did not change easi...
Back in 2009, we started researching change management trends, curious to know what was in the fu...
Earlier this month, Google’s CIO Ben Fried commented on stage at the Forbes CIO Summit that Googl...
We all know that culture has a huge impact on our change manageme...
In every biannual best practices report, we ask the same question...
Each new Prosci research report is an opportunity to expand the body of knowledge in ch...
Research and sausage. Read Story
As change managers, we often find ourselves explaining what change management is and why it is im...
Two members of the Prosci team authored an innovative chapter on a new Change Scorecard for the f...
Two days. Five events.
It was grueling. It was exhausting. But it was so exhilarating and ...
Since launching our Advanced Certifications earlier this year, more than 1,500 change professiona...
In the 2013 change management benchmarking study, we asked participants for their insights re...
More change is happening and at a faster rate. Change is also becoming more complex and requires ...
The discipline of change management is rapidly growing an...
Recent research shows that permanent change management jobs are on the ...
Prosci President Allison Seabeck and AdPro CEO Kirk Sievert announ...
With project management becoming more interested in how change man...
Training is an integral part of the journey to organizational com...
How do Organization Development and change management relate, and how do they together drive more...
In the coming years, no other competency will be more important to your organization than t...
Need to improve your change management vocabulary? Below is the Prosci guide to change management...
Prosci has been publishing content on the countless aspects of change management since the 1990s,...
Managers and supervisors play a key role in effectiv...
An organization that faces constant demands to change and uses effective change man...
The project plan is one of the cornerstones of successful change efforts. Harvey Mackay is quoted...
Research results clearly point to active and visible executive sponsorship as the number one succ...
"Our plant has been working on managing a ‘cultural change’ project. We have invested thousands o...
The excerpt below comes from the 2005 Read Story
As we enter a new year, some 25 years after change management was first introduced as a formal to...
The first tutorial in this two-part series addressed the change associated with improvement syste...
Over the last decade, the discipline of change management has emerged and evolved. What was once ...
The seventh change management benchmarking study conducted by Prosci uncovered lessons learned fr...
In brief: One size does not fit all. The "right" change management approach for a particular proj...
Many practitioners are faced with the challenge of building commitment and support for change man...
The business case is more than just the numbers - it tells the story of your project. As you get ...
Over the last ten years, organizations have placed a greater importance on managing the people-si...
In brief: Proofs of success and signature wins are critical catalysts for building an organizatio...
Many project leaders or project managers appreciate the critical need for communications during c...
Changes come to life through the work and behaviors of individuals in your organization. Simply c...
More than 400 project leaders and change management practitioners representing organizations from...
This series discusses the steps you can take to create change management competency into your org...
Tools or components of change management include:
Module 4 - Employee change competency
Introduction
From...
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Consistently, one of the biggest obstacles to change identified by partic...
During the summer of 2009, Prosci will be releasing a number of "Five tips" tutorials. These tuto...
Becoming a great leader of change is not easy - it involves learning new skills and using new too...
Do you have the right environment and framework present for change management to be successful? T...
You might think that overcoming resistance to change with managers and supervisors is one of your...
Prosci first released a tutorial on dispelling change management myths in March of 2006. Here, we...
Resistance to change comes in many shapes and sizes, and it is manifested through all sorts of be...
Prosci is releasing a four-part series on "why change management" to provide several different pe...
Prosci defines change management as the application of a structured process and set of tools for ...
Upstream, midstream, and downstream: these are the three stages of change manage...
While attending Prosci's Experienced Practitioner Program, participants are asked to bring t...
What is the Project Change Triangle™ (PCT) Model?
The PCT Analyzer is powered by the PCT M...
Managing change is becoming one of the most critical competencies your organization and your proj...
With the increasing pace and importance of change, the ability to "out-change" your competition w...
We asked change practitioners what they would do differently regarding change management training...
The field of change management can be confusing and sometimes complicated to research and study, ...
Prosci defines change management as the application of a structured process and set of tools for ...
Building the competency to manage change is not like installing a new technological system or tra...
It is a fairly common question - which changes need a plan for change management? Or, more direct...
Isn't resistance the natural reaction to change? In times of change, the natural re...
This blog provides the research foundation for the importance of sp...
The success of any change is dependent upon the front-line employees adopting new behaviors ...
By increasing the focus on the individuals impacted by a project or initiative, change management...
In Prosci's experience, there is one particular type of change that is often overlooked when we t...
Five tips for: Building organizational change management competency
Change management practitioners and business leaders often underestimate the level of comfort wit...
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Project management’s engagement with change management is an increasingly important contributor f...
With the new launch of our “How To Integrate Change Management and Project Management” webinar re...
"Change management takes change management." This may sound like a simp...
Throughout years of research and helping clients develop individual, project and organizati...
Throughout years of research and helping clients develop individual, project and organizati...
The following outline is designed to enable supervisors to create an information pa...
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Throughout years of research and helping clients develop individual, project and organizational c...
Return on Inv...
Managers and employees who persistently resist change over time create measurable impacts o...
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There are five critical change management plans, but the coaching plan has the greatest imp...
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I was recently discussing the ROI of change management with a colleague who expressed frustration...
Ten years ago, Prosci began research and d...
One of Prosci's Master Instructors, Butch Alligood, came to Prosci following a career in th...
Since 2007, the top change management trend identified by participants in the Prosci Best P...
As change management practitioners, we know that getting the project team on board with cha...
Prosci's Resistance Checklist draws from benchmarking research with over 900 participants and the...
The disciplines of change management and project management understandably cross paths thro...
How much change is too much? Change saturation conceptualizes how much change is...
Organizations today are facing, and creating, more change than ever before. The frequency, ...
Who are the faces and voices of change? Your immediate reaction might be the project leader...
Managers and supervisors are crucial allies in ti...
In a time where organizations are facing tremendous pressure to change - more frequently, more qu...
You and perhaps some of your coworkers are change management certified. Your organization’s...
Successful change happens when there is a focus on both the technical side of change and th...
Have you experienced the transformative effect of change management on a project but are lacking ...
You: "The results and outcomes of this project depend o...
Change management can be applied to many types of business improvement programs - from radical ch...
The Prosci ADKAR Model is one of the most requested change management models in ...
Change management's purpose is clear - to ensure that changes deliver intended results and ...
On Friday, May 15, 2015, executive directors, staff and board members of Boys &...
By Ric McCormick - Special guest author for the Change Management Learning Center Read Story
Leading organizations are starting to invest the time, energy and resources to build organization...
Year after year, participants in Prosci's benchmarking studies identify greater recogn...
In several of Prosci's benchmarking studies, a top trend identified by study participants was a g...
As Prosci works with numerous clients tackling change management challenges, we spend time trying...
Projects risk potential failure when change management is thought of as only t...
Outlined using Prosci’s two decades of research in change management, the following capability ar...
One of the top emerging trends in the discipline of change management is the creation of pe...
Many project teams are recognizing the need to effectively manage the people side of change on th...
There are a number of ways anyone can get involved or be involved in change management throughout...
Here at Prosci, customers and consultants often ask for references or articles to help them make ...
In Prosci's benchmarking studies, a top trend frequently identified by study participants is a gr...
Increasingly, change pracitioners are asking about the Return on Investment of managing change. T...
The Prosci Project Change Triangle (PCT) is a model for successf...
Do you know what LIFO stands for? Last In...
Inspired by Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle Read Story
The value systems in business have undergone a gradual shift over the past 50 years. This shift i...
Today, many organizations are working to build organizational change management capabilities and ...
The Prosci 3-Phase Change Management Process provides step-by-step instruction and research-based...
Prosci developed the Change Management Maturity Model™ in 2004 following a study with over 150 or...
When we think of change management, we typically envision the actions that we take - communicatin...
During the summer of 2009, Prosci will be releasing a number of "Five tips" tutorials. These tuto...
Prosci's change management approach is based on seven benchmarking studies conducted over the las...
The Prosci ADKAR Model was developed by Jeff Hiatt in 1996 and first published in a white paper t...
Prosci and the Change Management Learning Center's final tutorial series of 2008 is titled Neutra...
During the summer of 2009, Prosci will be releasing a number of "Five tips" tutorials. These tuto...
The people who have used change management ROI (CMROI) to make the case for change management&nbs...
In the coming years, no other competency will be more important to your organization than t...
How do the values of an organization impact the approach to managing change?
The business ...
The communication plan is one of the key tools available to change management pr...
If you are right in the middle of a Six Sigma project and experiencing employee resistance or a l...
Prosci began offering open-enrollment change management certification programs in October of 2003...
“The CMROI Calculator is a valuable tool. It re-frames the conversation around the ‘people depend...
As change management has emerged over the two last decades, the interaction between change manage...
For 20 years, Prosci has been gathering data from change...
Have you read our tutorial on Read Story
Robert Stise is the lead analyst for Prosci’s ninth change management benchmarking study, happeni...
While attending Prosci's Advanced Program, participants are asked to br...
