Project Manager Resource Center

Explore the resources below for a glimpse at how change management aligns with and supports your role as a project manager or project team member, and how it can help you drive better project results.

项目经理资源中心

Did you know that organizational change management is specifically designed to help projects succeed? It solves the puzzle of why, when project managers do everything right, employees still struggle with the change.

The missing piece? You must expand your focus beyond the technical side of things, and bring the people side into the equation. Because at the end of the day, it’s people that must change. Not just the systems and processes and programs and so forth that you’re in charge of changing.

Reaching and Influencing Employees

 

Your project sponsors and people managers can help your project succeed, and so can frequent, open communication with employees. Leverage your key messengers and communicate often to influence impacted employees for better project outcomes.

Who Should Communicate About Change?

VIDEO

Who Should Communicate About Change?

Our in-depth research reveals that employees prefer to hear important messages about forthcoming changes and changes underway from company leaders and their direct supervisors, rather than project managers.

BLOG

5 Actionable Tactics for Fearless Engagement with Sponsors

Your project sponsors are critical to project success. It’s important to equip them with the strategies needed for effectively engaging with and influencing employees about the change.

Read More

帮助项目发起人建立变革支持联盟的5种方法

BLOG

5 Ways to Help Sponsors Build a Coalition of Support for Change

Organizational changes are far more likely to succeed when your primary project sponsor builds a coalition of support among important stakeholders in the organization.  coliation

Read More

CLARC-职能经理在变革管理中的角色

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ARTICLE

CLARC: The Role of People Manager in Change Management

People managers are closest to the front-line employees who must adopt the new processes and systems you’re implementing. It’s important that managers understand the roles they play in making your changes happen.

Read More

沟通变革的五个诀窍

BLOG

5 Tips for Better Communication Around Change

For your project to succeed, communications must focus on the right people at the right times and in the right ways. An intentional, structured plan with focused messages helps impacted employees understand and accept the changes faster.

Read More

Integrating Project Management and Change Management

 

Whether you add change management skills to your project team, partner with a change manager within your organization, or leverage an external change management expert to help, you’ll want to integrate project management and change management for better project results.

项目管理和变革管理并列比较

BLOG

Change Management and Project Management: A Side-by-Side Comparison

These disciplines bring important structure to the technical and people sides of implementing change. They vary in terms of focus and approach, yet each is essential to moving individuals through change and your projects succeeding.

Read More

Delivering Project Success by Driving Adoption With Change Management

VIDEO

Delivering Project Success by Driving Adoption With Change Management

Consider this: Project management prepares the solution for the organization. Change management prepares the organization for the solution. Working together, they help the organization bring changes forward.

(From PMI’s Virtual Experience Series 2021, October 6-7)

BLOG

Areas of Project Management and Change Management To Integrate

Project management and change management align and intersect at various stages of a project. For effective integration, you need to align people, processes, tools, methodologies and results. 

Read More

整合变革管理和项目管理的时机

BLOG

When To Integrate Change Management With Project Management

Project management and change management are complementary disciplines with a shared objective: success of the project or initiative. But to work most effectively, project teams must integrate these approaches early in the project lifecycle and even before kickoff.

 

Read More

整合变革管理和项目管理

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ARTICLE

Integrating Change Management and Project Management

An integrated approach enables project managers and change practitioners to work toward a shared definition of success, more effectively align and sequence activities, and avoid duplicating efforts by integrating common tools.

Read More

Managing Project Resistance

 

Change is hard, so you will always see a certain amount of resistance to any change you’re trying to implement. But the good news is that change management can help you plan for that resistance, minimize the level of resistance, and help move individuals forward when resistance occurs.

Planning for Resistance Management

WEBINAR SNIPPET

Planning for Resistance Management

We surveyed practitioners and others involved in implementing changes about types of resistance, the importance of planning for resistance, and the top tactics used in resistance planning.

The Root Cause of Resistance

VIDEO

The Root Cause of Resistance

Both organizational context (e.g., an organization’s culture) and personal context (e.g., an employee’s career plans) are important in identifying and mitigating resistance to your project.

管理变革阻力

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ARTICLE

Managing Resistance to Change

Understanding why employees might resist your change, and how to best support impacted people and groups going through the change process, can help to minimize their resistance to the change you’re trying to implement.

Read More

Managing Resistance to Change

WEBINAR

Managing Resistance to Change

Anticipating resistance, identifying root causes of resistance, and engaging the right resistance managers can help ensure project success. Work through a case study to see how to put these key concepts into action.

Download Slides  |  Download Handout

I’ve been in IT for 20 years, and IT projects often focus on the technology component. Prosci helps us to be more intentional about understanding and addressing the impact our IT projects will have on each and every individual.

Kim Holman, Senior Project Manager, University of Virginia School of Medicine