Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change

Course Overview

Change management is not just a communication or awareness plan. Change management is a comprehensive effort to lead your organization through transformation. Most importantly, the transformation effort must be actively led and managed. In this one-day workshop, you’ll be introduced to concepts and techniques to help you effectively prepare your organization for the successful acceptance of cultural change that comes with major project implementations.

This workshop will highlight the key barriers to implementing effective project management change in your organization and solutions for overcoming those barriers. You’ll learn how to assess your organization’s readiness to accept change, including how change is understood and whether management is positioned to lead the transition. You’ll also learn how to develop an effective change management action plan that includes creating a vision of the future as well as a path for transitioning to that future.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Discuss key change management concepts and techniques
• Identify strategies for the effective employment of those concepts and techniques in the project environment
• Recognize key roles and responsibilities for creating enduring change
• List the typical stages of a change effort
• Identify and mitigate typical barriers to effective change implementation
• Identify key attributes of effective change visions and goals
• Assess your organization’s readiness to change
• Create an effective organizational change management plan

Course Outline

Introduction

Organizational Change Management Basics

• Define organizational change management
• Discuss the framework of organizational change management
• Discuss strategic approaches to organizational change management
• Discuss force field analysis as an early tool in the organizational change process

Roles and Responsibilities

• State the stakeholder roles required to affect change
• Recognize the concept of stakeholder analysis
• Perform a stakeholder analysis

Barriers to Change

• Recognize key barriers to change
• State the usages and purpose of the ladder of inference
• Use the ladder of inference to understand a barrier to change

Planning for Change

• Create an effective organizational change management plan
• Identify strategies for the effective use of organizational change management concepts and techniques in a project environment
• Recognize key roles and responsibilities for creating enduring organizational change

Changing and Stabilizing

• Explain the need for ongoing assessment of the organizational climate
• List positive and negative indicators of progress in organizational change
• List the reasons why the powerful coalition and sponsors may need to be coached throughout the change process
• Identify and employ strategies to maintain momentum and enthusiasm for creating enduring organizational change