Active and visible sponsorship is the single greatest contributor to the success of a change...
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 instantaneously...
Want to know how to engage your sponsors and increase their change management awareness? This...
You may already know the ABCs of sponsorship—Active and visible participation, Building a...
In my role at Prosci, I have the privilege of working with senior executive teams across all...
As a senior executive, sponsor of change, and Executive Instructor for Prosci Canada teaching...
How do you establish the scope of change management, and why does it matter? By creating a working...
As we enter a new year, the need for change management is greater than ever. People – and their...
With the new year, it’s time to start thinking about new goals for change management in our...
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...
For over a decade, Prosci research participants have reported that engaging impacted employees in...
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 (SPOILER...
Recently, we talked about what change managers do to confront active, loud and direct resistance to...
While the data is quite clear that your projects will be more successful with change management,...
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...
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 things to stick with me, a fact she brings up on...
This October, Prosci released findings from two new topical research studies, Managing Resistance...
The new Prosci.com website is live! The site offers a more engaging, intuitive, interactive user...
“Priority is the function of context,” says Stephen Covey. So how do you position the value of...
Supply chain projects often demand significant resources to complete, so managing them effectively...
You’ve probably heard about the four C’s of diamonds: color, clarity, cut and carat weight....
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® Model, they tend to fall in love. They shamelessly wear...
As urban gardening continues to grow in popularity, people have become increasingly creative in how...
Want to know how to engage your sponsors and increase their change management awareness? Below is a...
In today’s global marketplace, organizations that can change more effectively domestically and...
Over the last few decades, the discipline of change management has emerged and evolved. What was...
Do you need to build buy-in for an Enterprise Change Management deployment at your organization?...
Alistair Lowe-Norris leads the global strategy for Adoption and Change Management at Microsoft....
The magnitude of a given change will impact how employees react and how you should manage the...
In 2017, Jeremy Sparks became the first-ever Prosci-Certified Advanced Practitioner. Read our...
Do you have a project sponsor named, but lack the true sponsorship you need to succeed?
When...
DSV Global Transport and Logistics offers transport services worldwide and employs around 44,000...
Employees fall into three groups when faced with change. Group 1 is open and willing to change and...
Oshkosh Corporation is a global manufacturing company that designs and builds the world’s toughest...
How will organizations embrace change management this year? And next year? And the year after that?...
Effective change management always includes reinforcement, but projects often overlook this step,...
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...
A structured approach to the change process is a critical concept in developing a successful and...
Since 1994, Prosci has been listening to and engaging with clients around the world to help people...
Do you have what you need to win at change? These change practitioners are utilizing the latest and...
As we prepared for the release of our tenth Best Practices in Change Management report over twenty...
The resounding theme from two decades of change management best-practices research is that...
Managers have always been a key lever to success in change management work. They are the frontline...
Since the beginning iterations of Prosci’s change management research, we’ve known about the...
Many industry-leading organizations are building change competency and solidifying their change...
Once you’ve hired a new change management practitioner or team member, how do you ensure they have...
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,...
Integrating change management and project management has been an area of study for over a decade at...
To respond to recent changes, organizations are deploying Agile methods and mindsets using...
“In a project using an Agile method, change management must adapt and be flexible. In related...
There are many people you may have discussions with regarding change management. To be effective,...
In our age of innovation and sophistication, I am always amazed by the power of the throw-back. We...
Change and change management. On the surface, these terms may seem interchangeable. However, there...
When people do not share a common language, it can lead to confusing, even hilarious results....
Change management as a discipline is almost unrecognizable when it comes to new opportunities for...
Building role-based individual change competencies is an essential aspect of growing an enterprise...
How do you know if your change management approach is set up to succeed? Using the Prosci change...
In brief: you can build greater buy-in and understanding of change management with project managers...
In study after study, Prosci has seen a common denominator to successfully transitioning...
Many organizations are pursuing the application of change management on specific projects and...
Change management assessments are commonly touted by consultants as a key step in the change...
When the people side of change is ignored or poorly managed, the project and the organization take...
Changes ultimately come to life through the individuals who have to do their jobs differently as a...
Prosci's methodology is the collective lessons learned by thousands of change practitioners and...
Each month, Prosci delivers over 30 Change Management Certification Programs. In order to...
Change management's purpose is clear - to ensure that changes deliver intended results and outcomes...
We receive inquiries every day from organizations looking to build enterprise-wide change...
Where were you in 2004? The answers among us will be wide reaching but perhaps we all had one thing...
‘Unpack’ is a word that entered our business vocabulary pretty recently and stuck. It refers to...
If you are a change practitioner, chances are you've had several questions about how to begin...
Why do we need change management?
The answer may seem obvious to those of us who are change...
The Prosci 3-Phase Process has been around for over a decade. Phase Two, managing change, focuses...
While the data is quite clear that projects will be more successful if you apply change management,...
As 2016 comes to an end, we shift our focus to 2017 and the new opportunities and challenges on the...
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 business?...
The idea of change occurring in three distinct phases is found in most change management...
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...
Leading organizations are realizing that the ability to deliver results in times of change is a...
Organizations are developing change management as a core competency, a trend that will carry...
The pace of change is increasing and with it the demand for experienced change leaders. How can you...
Change management has made many important strides over the course of the last several years. One of...
As change management professionals, we are constantly reminding our colleagues, clients and leaders...
The research tells us that projects with excellent change management are 79% more likely to meet or...
As more companies in the utilities industry implement technological changes, culture changes or...
Is certification really necessary? Doesn’t experience alone qualify us? I understand the quandary,...
Building an enterprise change capability is tricky business. One of the many challenges leaders on...
The Prosci ADKAR Model gives us five outcomes individuals must achieve in order to change...
In the Prosci ADKAR Model, knowledge and ability are two distinct elements. Knowledge of how to do...
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...
Fortune Magazine recognized Prosci as one of the top 20 Best Places to Work in Consulting and...
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 need for a change,...
What is your finish line?
That’s the question Mark Dorsett, a frequent global speaker from Prosci,...
I was one of those dogged (or, as I like to think, “passionate”) children who did not change easily...
Back in 2009, we started researching change management trends, curious to know what was in the...
Earlier this month, Google’s CIO Ben Fried commented on stage at the Forbes CIO Summit that Google...
We all know that culture has a huge impact on our change management projects. To reinforce this,...
In every biannual best practices report, we ask the same question:
What are the top contributors to...
Each new Prosci research report is an opportunity to expand the body of knowledge in change...
Research and sausage.
Yes you read that correctly! How is sausage made and what is the process?...
As change managers, we often find ourselves explaining what change management is and why it is...
Two members of the Prosci team authored an innovative chapter on a new Change Scorecard for the...
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 professionals...
In the 2013 change management benchmarking study, we asked participants for their insights...
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 and with it, the change management job...
Recent research shows that permanent change management jobs are on the rise. But where has the...
Prosci President Allison Seabeck and AdPro CEO Kirk Sievert announced this week that AdPro...
With project management becoming more interested in how change management can increase project ROI,...
Training is an integral part of the journey to organizational competency, and for every person that...
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 the ...
If you are just beginning to implement change management on a project, remember that for many...
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 effective change. They are in a unique position -...
An organization that faces constant demands to change and uses effective change management over...
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...
"Our plant has been working on managing a ‘cultural change’ project. We have invested thousands of...
The excerpt below comes from the 2005 Best Practices in Change Management benchmarking report with...
As we enter a new year, some 25 years after change management was first introduced as a formal tool...
The first tutorial in this two-part series addressed the change associated with improvement systems...
Over the last decade, the discipline of change management has emerged and evolved. What was once an...
The seventh change management benchmarking study conducted by Prosci uncovered lessons learned from...
In brief: One size does not fit all. The "right" change management approach for a particular...
Many practitioners are faced with the challenge of building commitment and support for change...
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-side...
In brief: Proofs of success and signature wins are critical catalysts for building an...
Many project leaders or project managers appreciate the critical need for communications during...
Changes come to life through the work and behaviors of individuals in your organization. Simply...
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...
Tools or components of change management include:
Module 4 - Employee change competency
Introduction
From Module 1 in this series, front-line...
Why are sponsors so important? In all five of Prosci's benchmarking reports in change management...
Consistently, one of the biggest obstacles to change identified by participants in the our Best...
During the summer of 2009, Prosci will be releasing a number of "Five tips" tutorials. These...
Becoming a great leader of change is not easy - it involves learning new skills and using new tools...
Do you have the right environment and framework present for change management to be successful? The...
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...
Prosci is releasing a four-part series on "why change management" to provide several different...
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 management that Prosci...
While attending Prosci's Experienced Practitioner Program, participants are asked to bring two case...
What is the Project Change Triangle™ (PCT) Model?
The PCT Analyzer is powered by the PCT Model....
Managing change is becoming one of the most critical competencies your organization and your...
With the increasing pace and importance of change, the ability to "out-change" your competition...
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...
It is a fairly common question - which changes need a plan for change management? Or, more...
Isn't resistance the natural reaction to change? In times of change, the natural reaction is to...
This blog provides the research foundation for the importance of sponsors and looks at three...
The success of any change is dependent upon the front-line employees adopting new behaviors or...
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...
Five tips for: Building organizational change management competency
Change management practitioners and business leaders often underestimate the level of comfort with...
Over the past 15 years, the use of structured methodologies for managing the people side of change...
Executives and senior managers play a critical role in the outcome of a change. In Prosci's 2016...
Project management’s engagement with change management is an increasingly important contributor for...
With the new launch of our “How To Integrate Change Management and Project Management” webinar...
"Change management takes change management." This may sound like a simplistic observation, even...
Throughout years of research and helping clients develop individual, project and organizational...
Throughout years of research and helping clients develop individual, project and organizational...
The following outline is designed to enable supervisors to create an information packet to use in...
The Prosci ADKAR...
Throughout years of research and helping clients develop individual, project and organizational...
Return on Investment...
Managers and employees who persistently resist change over time create measurable impacts on a...
Reinforcement is more than checking a box that a change was done. There are three clear steps to...
There are five critical change management plans, but the coaching plan has the greatest impact on...
How do you reinforce a change once it has been implemented? The third phase of the Prosci...
I was recently discussing the ROI of change management with a colleague who expressed frustration...
Ten years ago, Prosci began research and development...
One of Prosci's Master Instructors, Butch Alligood, came to Prosci following a career in the United...
Since 2007, the top change management trend identified by participants in the Prosci Best Practices...
As change management practitioners, we know that...
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 throughout...
How much change is too much? Change saturation conceptualizes how much change is going on in the...
Organizations today are facing, and creating, more change than ever before. The frequency, number,...
Who are the faces and voices of change? Your immediate reaction might be the project leader. Or...
Managers and supervisors are crucial allies in times of change management. This group fulfills one...
In a time where organizations are facing tremendous pressure to change - more frequently, more...
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 the people...
Have you experienced the transformative effect of change management on a project but are lacking...
You: "The results and outcomes of this project depend on employees embracing and adopting the...
Change management can be applied to many types of business improvement programs - from radical...
The Prosci ADKAR Model is one of the most requested change management models in the world. By...
Change management's purpose is clear - to ensure that changes deliver intended results and outcomes...
On Friday, May 15, 2015, executive directors, staff and board members of Boys & Girls Clubs from...
By Ric McCormick - Special guest author for the Change Management Learning Center
Working as a Lean...
Leading organizations are starting to invest the time, energy and resources to build organizational...
Year after year, participants in Prosci's benchmarking studies identify greater recognition of the...
In several of Prosci's benchmarking studies, a top trend identified by study participants was a...
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 the responsibility of...
Outlined using Prosci’s two decades of research in change management, the following capability...
One of the top emerging trends in the discipline of change management is the creation of permanent...
Many project teams are recognizing the need to effectively manage the people side of change on...
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...
Increasingly, change pracitioners are asking about the Return on Investment of managing change....
The Prosci Project Change Triangle (PCT) is a model for successful executing and implementing...
Do you know what LIFO stands for? Last In, First Out. And it is a plague many change managers run...
Inspired by Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle, this tutorial will tackle three real challenges change...
The value systems in business have undergone a gradual shift over the past 50 years. This shift is...
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...
When we think of change management, we typically envision the actions that we take - communicating,...
During the summer of 2009, Prosci will be releasing a number of "Five tips" tutorials. These...
Prosci's change management approach is based on seven benchmarking studies conducted over the last...
The Prosci ADKAR Model was developed by Jeff Hiatt in 1996 and first published in a white paper...
Prosci and the Change Management Learning Center's final tutorial series of 2008 is titled...
During the summer of 2009, Prosci will be releasing a number of "Five tips" tutorials. These...
The people who have used change management ROI (CMROI) to make the case for change management are...
By special guest contributor Victoria M. Grady, PhD
Preface by Tim Creasey:Dr. Victoria M. Grady...
In the coming years, no other competency will be more important to your organization than the...
How do the values of an organization impact the approach to managing change?
The business world is...
The communication plan is one of the key tools available to change management professionals. In...
If you are right in the middle of a Six Sigma project and experiencing employee resistance or a...
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...
As change management has emerged over the two last decades, the interaction between change...
For 20 years, Prosci has been gathering data from change management practitioners around the world....
Have you read our tutorial on the five questions to ask to put change management in context? If...
Robert Stise is the lead analyst for Prosci’s ninth change management benchmarking study, happening...
While attending Prosci's Advanced Program, participants are asked to bring two case studies: one...
