6 Tools for Organizational Change Management

How can organizations support change and integration of more project management tools and practices?

Questions to consider:

1. Does the organization’s leaders support the use of project management tools/practices/processes?

2. What is considered appropriate now? (What is appropriate determines what is possible and what is possible determines what is accepted)

3. The best project management practices are done in collaboration and consultation with those implementing the use of these tools/practices/processes

4. Stay within reach of what is possible, acceptable, and understandable: start from where the organization is today in a pragmatic way.

5. What is the culture? Explore these questions and understand them:

   1. How do things work here?

   2. What is valued?

   3. What is not valued?

   4. What do we give lip service to?

   5. What do we actually do?

   6. What gets attention?

   7. What moves the organization forward?

   8. What makes the organization dig in?

6. Strategies to support working changes:

   1. Collaborate- involve relevant stakeholders and build commitment

   2. Communicate- (awareness- what is being created and why, demonstrate- how what is being built will make a difference, make visible-how process will make things better)

   3. Educate- (What are the principles of new process? Create a common understanding of how it will work)

   4. Support- (Figure out what will help team members be successful, and work to make the change easier for them)