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Best Practices in Change Management
Read the top best practices in change management, as reported to Prosci by thousands of change management professionals over the past 25 years.
READ ARTICLE PDFChange Practitioner Journey Model
Prosci’s Change Practitioner Journey Model shows how an individual achieves professional goals in change management.
READ ARTICLEChange Management at the Project Level
Project level change management ensures a project achieves its intended results by supporting individual transitions. It provides the specific strategies, plans and actions that focus on impacted employees and works in alignment with project deployment.
READ ARTICLEChange Management Job Description
Use this sample change management job description as a starting point to create your own posting for a change manager or as a guide as you begin your change management career. The sample includes: position description, responsibilities and qualifications.
READ ARTICLEDefinition of Change Management
Project level change management ensures a project achieves its intended results by supporting individual transitions. It provides the specific strategies, plans and actions that focus on impacted employees and works in alignment with project deployment.
READ ARTICLEWhat is Change Management and How Does it Work?
Change management is both a process and a competency. Effective change management follows a structured process and uses a holistic set of tools to drive successful individual and organizational change.
READ ARTICLEThe Importance of Integrating Individual and Organizational Change
Because the success of organizational changes depends on individuals engaging, adopting and using them, we must manage changes at both the individual and organizational levels concurrently.
READ ARTICLEThe History and Future of Change Management
Change management has evolved from foundational understandings to a recognized discipline. Our research and experience suggest that in the coming years it will advance in three major areas.
READ ARTICLEWhat is Change Management?
Change management is the discipline that guides how we prepare, equip and support individuals to successfully adopt change in order to drive organizational success and outcomes. Learn about Prosci's change management methodology for individual and organizational change.
READ ARTICLEWhy Change Management
Your initiatives impact how individual people do their work. They impact the processes individual people use, as well as their job roles, workflows, reporting structures, behaviors, and even their identity within the organization.
READ ARTICLEChange Management Plans
Change management plans support impacted people and groups through their ADKAR journeys and enable them to adopt and use a change. Such plans include the Master Change Management Plan, ADKAR Blueprint, Core Plans and Extend Plans.
READ ARTICLEProsci Methodology
Prosci's methodology consists of several models, processes, assessments and tools which work together to provide a holistic, easy-to-use framework for managing change based on more than twenty years of industry research and experience.
READ ARTICLEAwareness - The Prosci ADKAR Model
The first milestone in the ADKAR model is awareness, which describes the importance of building & addressing awareness of the need for a change.
READ ARTICLEDesire - The Prosci ADKAR Model
The second milestone in the ADKAR model is desire, which highlights the need to cultivate a person's desire to support a change to make it successful.
READ ARTICLEKnowledge - The Prosci ADKAR Model
The third milestone in the ADKAR Model is knowledge. This includes both knowledge on how to change and how to perform effectively in the future state.
READ ARTICLEAbility - The Prosci ADKAR Model
The fourth milestone in the ADKAR model is ability, which is the stage in an individual's change process where the change actually occurs.
READ ARTICLEReinforcement - The Prosci ADKAR Model
Reinforcement is the fifth and final building block of the Prosci ADKAR Model and focuses on activities that help make a change stick.
READ ARTICLEThe Prosci ADKAR Model: Why it Works
Based on the experience of thousands of practitioners, ADKAR seems to be so easily and readily applicable because it is easy to learn, creates a new lense for viewing change, drives action, and addresses how change happens one person at a time.
READ ARTICLEOrganizational Change Management Checklist
These 10 questions, which serve as an organizational change management planning checklist, will help guide your change management initiative.
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