Leading People to Embrace Change (LPEC)

• Project Managers
• Managers of Project Mangers
• Functional Managers and Executives with project responsibility
• Project Management Office staff
• Anyone responsible for the successful implementation of Organizational Change in the context of a technology project

This course assumes familiarity with basic project management concepts as well as some experience in the planning and execution of projects.

• Learn the organizational factors that can make or break your project
• Understand how each project role can contribute to organizational adoption
• Find out how to identify and leverage your built-in support team
• Learn how to uncover what is needed to make your audience successful
• Design a marketing campaign that can deliver your message
• Gain a deeper appreciation of what it means to deal with Resistance to Change
• Discover how to manage Organizational Change as a project
• Learn how to write and implement an Organizational Change Plan
• Take home a systematic approach that can work in your projects

Technology is, by its nature, a change agent. Anyone who introduces technology into a workplace, whether as business software, communication tools or computing devices, also lays the foundation for change in reporting relationships, work patterns and job titles. As we all know, change is seldom welcome and is often fought. Many technology projects, although planned and executed flawlessly, have nonetheless gone down in flames due to the unwillingness of the intended audience to accept the accompanying change. This does not have to happen.

This workshop explains specific strategies and actions that anyone responsible for a project can use to ensure that the intended targets of change are able and willing to embrace it. This workshop leads participants through a series of exercises, each of which contributes to an understanding of how to develop and execute an Organizational Adoption Plan. Participants leave with concrete, actionable plans that they can use to build on existing support, identify and manage potential trouble-spots, build and execute a marketing campaign, leverage the good intent and high standards that are common in most people, and convert resistance to change into acceptance of the inevitable.