Prosci Blog

Why Strategic Alignment is Essential to Enterprise Change Planning

Karen Ball — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:39:13 GMT

Why should you bother with strategic alignment when you’re building change management capability? You know change management works for your organization because you can point to many project successes. Surveys reveal that employees value change management too. And your change team is ready and willing to take your organization to the next level. But before heading down the road to building change management capability, it’s critical to align your efforts with your organizational objectives.

Practitioner Spotlight: A Change Practitioner's Unique Journey

lpowers@prosci.com (Laura Powers) — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:30:15 GMT

David Martinez is Senior Business Strategy and Analysis Manager for the Founder Department at Vulcan Inc. in Seattle, where he is leading the effort to build a change management program. He didn’t start out as a change practitioner. Instead, he worked in other areas that were a natural fit, and eventually headed down his own unique journey to change management. Here’s how he got started.

5 Reasons to Build Change Capability With Prosci eLearning

staylor@prosci.com (Susie Taylor) — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:00:00 GMT

Organizations that are focused on growing their change capability need flexibility in their approach. Given today's dispersed and remote workforces, your organization may have limited access to change management training. And even if you're practicing change management on projects, you may not be seeing desired project outcomes because you haven't yet developed a change-ready culture. That’s where Prosci eLearning can help.

INFOGRAPHIC: The Change Practitioner Journey

Karen Ball — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:09:12 GMT

Change practitioners are a diverse group. Some focus their change management skills on important projects to improve project outcomes. Others lead teams through the changes happening at their organizations. While still others facilitate Prosci change management programs within their organizations.

Managing Change in Our Re-Imagined Workplaces

tcreasey@prosci.com (Tim Creasey) — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:18:12 GMT

We are at a fascinating, unique time as every one of our organizations faces change in response to and triggered by a global pandemic. The change is at the same time the most individual and collective we have ever experienced.

How to Succeed as a Virtual Sponsor of Change Today

jrinaldi@prosci.com (Joanne Rinaldi) — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:36:20 GMT

Prosci research has consistently identified active and visible sponsorship as the number one success factor in major change initiatives for two decades. But once “COVID creep” began affecting our world and projects, we quickly moved from traditional work arrangements to integrating our professional and personal lives in surprising ways. How can leaders continue to fulfill the critical sponsor role in change, and even improve, in this strange new virtual world?

Use the ADKAR Model to Reinforce Handwashing Behaviors

jepp@prosci.com (Janice Epp) — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:38:06 GMT

By now, most people understand the importance of handwashing to avoid contracting and spreading COVID-19. As a nurse, I have seen handwashing behaviors curb virus transmission significantly. As a change practitioner, I see the need for focused reinforcement as we return to our workplaces.

Registering a False Positive on Change Resilience

rstewart@prosci.com (Ron Stewart) — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:51:50 GMT

After a series of conversations with executives and senior change leads over the past few weeks, it appears many organizations now consider their staff to be change resilient due to the successful transition to the work-from-home model as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The concern is that this sense of resiliency may give way for executives to feel they have a license to introduce organizational change without executing intentional change plans. To assume that organizations have now reached a heightened level of change resiliency because of COVID-19 is fraught with risk.

Time, Effort and Success With Organizational Change

jrinaldi@prosci.com (Joanne Rinaldi) — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:36:03 GMT

Organizations everywhere are experiencing more change than ever, which is highlighting the need to build lasting change capability. Why? Because those who can weather more and complex change at a faster pace have a competitive advantage in our uncertain marketplace. Regardless of how small and complex or large and disruptive the changes being introduced, understanding the time and effort required to bring changes to fruition highlights the importance of being change-capable as an organization.

6 Things We Know About Results

tcreasey@prosci.com (Tim Creasey) — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:26:02 GMT

What do we know already about results and how change happens? How do we adapt and adjust our knowledge to better serve us in the changing world we live in today? We certainly have different experiences and different hands dealt to us. But as human beings, we experience successful change similarly. And grounding ourselves in what we know about change and results can help us achieve greater success in the unknown environment ahead.