Change Management

Dealing With Change: Have You Planned for These Common Obstacles?

Projects change and with those changes you need some controls. Along with those controls you also need to be able to recognize the depth and complexity of the change. Too often leaders, organizations and stakeholders miss the important elements, causing...

Will Scrum Edge Provide the Tools You Need?

Scrum Edge is an on-demand project management utility. When you're trying to determine how useful a program is, it's important first to determine what your needs are. Scrum Edge is designed to accompany the efforts of those project managers utilizing...

A Project Manager’s Guide to Chronemics in Team Communication

Chronemics within the confines of team communication is an art and a science that falls under the umbrella of nonverbal communication. Difficult to grasp for the novice project manager, it becomes an invaluable ally for the seasoned professional. Are...

How to Prepare for an Uncertain Change

As with anything in life there will be changes. Sometimes you know about the change and sometimes you don't. As a project manager you have to be prepared for changes, seen and unseen and you have to prepare your team for unknown changes while maintaining...

When a Key Person Won't Adapt to Change

Are you frustrated because a key player on the team won't adapt to change? Don't worry. There are ways to make things work. When someone opposes your leadership, extra communication with the person always makes the situation better.

A Comprehensive Handbook for Managing Change

As the adage goes, "the only thing constant is change." Change management is now a regular feature in most companies and seamless execution of this process becomes critical for organizational success. Change involves all stakeholders of the enterprise...

Accepting Creativity from Your Project Staff

Creativity can be a great thing, but in the world of project management, change can mean a lot of time getting everyone on board. If you allow creativity to flourish within your team, the project will benefit--and it doesn't necessarily mean making...

ADKAR: A Bottom Up Approach to Implementing Change

ADKAR is the acronym for Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement. It depicts the five stages for an individual to make a successful change. The steps are sequential and cumulative, and an individual has to attain the goals of one stage...

The Key to Managing Project Changes

Failure to communicate during an important project can be fatal to success. Find out how to stay on track with a change control checklist. You'll find included a link to a free, downloadable Word document you can use for this purpose.

A Look at the Components of Leavitt's Diamond

Leavitt offered a new approach to looking at organizations, in which every organization consists of four interactive components. This approach is now widely used for making organizational change more effective. Keep reading to learn more about these components...