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How to Make a Change Management Communication Plan

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Change is inevitable, but successful change requires management, communication and planning. Change management communication is a key process to ensure that change is implemented properly by making sure everyone understands that change. What Is Change Management Communication?

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Professional Services Industry Fundamentals

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Professional services apply to a wide range of industries. The professional services industry is large and to better understand it, we define the term and provide examples of professional services firms. Finally, we demonstrate how upgrading to project management software adds efficiency to the process.

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New training: Change Management Workshop

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As project managers, most of us know how important it is to make sure that what we deliver is actually useful and used by the people we deliver it for. That’s where change management comes in. Have you ever wished someone could give you the secret to dealing with resistance to change? Join my new workshop. Cost: US$60.

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Industrial Psychology for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Professor Tirado is a native New Yorker, and when he started out in this field he was one of 5 people in the world who married together managing initiatives through projects and industrial psychology. In today’s Clubhouse room, we talked about what industrial psychology is and what it means for people in the project profession.

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Change Champion: Key Roles & Responsibilities

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They need a change champion to help them make that change. Of course, a change champion isn’t the whole picture in a change management process, but they’re vital for change. Following that will be a list of roles and responsibilities of a change champion and the skill set one looks for in one.

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Overcoming Resistance to Change: Causes & Solutions

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Active Resistance Active resistance to change is direct, vocal and provocative. It’s negative and outspoken and can include head-on conflict, sarcasm, defiance, increased problem spotting without offering solutions, open criticism of the change management process, starting rumors or even sabotaging the change.

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How to Conduct a Change Readiness Assessment (Template Included)

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The adage says nothing is constant but change. When managing projects, change management helps to avoid its negative effects, and a change readiness assessment is one of the ways how it does this. Being prepared for change helps to mitigate the risks associated with those changes.