Take Me To Your Leader
This sponsor trait is both the #1 contributor to change initiative success and (when it’s missing) the #1 barrier to change.
What is active, visible sponsorship?
The 3 elements on the Prosci change triangle that must be present for project success.
What are change management, project management and leadership?
This plan describes the activities leaders should engage in to engage stakeholders and promote the success of a change program.
What is a sponsor plan?
A willingness to make a personal commitment to the change outcomes.
What is Desire?
The number one reason projects fail.
Active and visible sponsorship.
Leaders you need to have in place to support buy-in for organizational changes.
What is a sponsor?
They design or develop the change or solution.
Who are the business owners and/or project team?
This plan ensures that all of the learning activities required to support stakeholders through the “K” stage of the change journey.
What is the training plan?
Understanding the nature of the change – what it is and why is it happening.
What is Awareness?
Storytelling or a personal appeal is helpful in building this ADKAR block.
What is Desire?
The preferred sender of business or strategy related messages about a change.
Who are sponsors or senior leaders?
This person(s) applies a structured process and tool set to assess the impact of change and design the strategy for stakeholder adoption.
Who is the Change Management leader or practitioner?
This plan anticipates likely barriers to change and proposed activities to mitigate or remove those barriers.
What is the resistance management plan?
Actions that increase the likelihood that a change will be sustained.
What is Reinforcement?
This state of change defines who we are today – it is predictable and comfortable.
What is current state?
Sponsors and Managers leading change share this one key responsibility.
What is communication?
At the center of the PCT, this is what the Sponsor, Project Manager and Change Manager work together to achieve.
What is Project meets objectives, finishes on time/budget, delivers ROI?
The plans that managers develop for individuals on their teams to support them through their individual change journeys.
What is the Coaching Plan?
Understanding how to change – thru training on new process or tools.
What is Knowledge?
WIIFM
What is “what’s in it of me?”
The “B” in the ABCs of Sponsorship, this activity is when sponsors work to align with leaders of other parts of the organization on the proposed change.
What is Building Coalitions?
The point in a project where the PCT is generally first used.
What is the beginning?
This plan describes the ways in which information is shared throughout the life of the project, and includes the audience, timing, vehicles, and senders of all key messages.
What is the communication plan?
The demonstrated capability to implement change.
What is Ability?
A measure of success that describes how many employees are demonstrating “buy-in” and using the new solution.
What is Utilization?