Documentation
This document is utilized to kick start important institutional efforts
What is a Charter?
Try not to assume your stakeholders are ready to adopt your new process. You might want to think through this framework to diagnose where barriers to adoption are coming from.
What is ADKAR?
The project is now done but you're not ready to release the team until you go through this important phase for capturing information for operations.
What is Closing?
Knowing the end result can sometimes be a luxury, if you expect a lot of change, maybe try this approach
What is Agile?
No that's not a project, but IE will likely tag a PM to help. This small effort can be a quick fix when planning is a must but falls outside the parameters of typical institutional efforts.
What is a Facilitation?
When planning a meeting you should have these 3 items top of mind to ensure valuable use of everyone's time.
What are: Decisions, Discussion, and Action Items?
You don't need this until you need it, make sure someone is designated during the meeting to be an active listener.
What are Minutes?
If it is important to the institution, someone is going to be saying that often. Projects also have this role. It's important to know why a change is happening. You wouldn't ask this individual how the change will be done, leave that for the project manager and change manager to figure out.
What is Sponsor?
We're not playing rugby, we're likely standing around for 15 minutes ensuring we understand the work completed by our team, planned efforts for today, and any barriers we may have encountered.
What is a Scrum?
Take it from a project manager, project teams love to skip this part and go straight to solutions. Maybe take a step back and ensure this phase is has set the project up for success.
What is Planning?
Although often confused for another letter in ADKAR, this milestone refers to an individual showing a capacity to complete the task outlined in the project or change.
What is Ability?
Sometimes confused for a methodology, this nimble way of doing work was initially drafted with a manifesto in in 2001 and is best thought of as term synonymous with ethos.
What is a Mindset?
You thought we made this up. Whether it's Swiss Cheese or a miss spelling of "CLARC", this essential information will ensure every effort is successful. This service has successfully been delivered 4 times, getting our institutional closer to the fully realizing the A in ADKAR.
What is Change Management Training?