Strategies
Plans
You name the Output (plan)
Anything Goes (Days 1&2)
100

This strategy includes the following:  identified feedback channels and loops, targeted stakeholder messaging, and identified communication channels and frequency.

What is the Communication Strategy?

100

Developing this plan helps to document the actions, timelines, and resources needed to deliver the change.

What is the Change Management Plan?

100

The inputs to this plan include the Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholder Engagement Strategy, Communication Strategy , Sponsorship Strategy, and Change Risks.  Example activities in this plan include formal, two-way, and informal communication; learning, development, training, and discovery activities; and rewards, recognition, reinforcement, and consequences

What is the Stakeholder Engagement Plan?

100

This can occur at various times throughout the transitional process before the future state is achieved (Hint: this often causes a dip in performance).

What is disruption?

200

The purpose of developing this strategy is to create a high-level approach for preparing and leveraging the sponsors to promote, gain support for, and drive adoption of a change.

What is a Sponsorship Strategy?

200

This plan defines the mechanisms that will be used to anchor and embed the change once it is implemented and is determined to be effective.

What is the Sustainability Plan?

200

Components of this plan include physical, human and financial resources, and inputs include the Change Management Resources, Roles, and Responsibilities Strategy, Communication Strategy, and Learning and Development Strategy.

What is the Resource Plan?

200

The level of detail in this plan should reflect the complexity and risk of the change effort.

What is the Change Management Plan?

300

This strategy focuses on  the actions and activities that need to be completed in advance of  the change being implemented.

What is a Readiness Strategy?

300

This plan outlines the activities and metrics that will be established to ensure stakeholders and stakeholder groups can make the changes required or complete the steps that will help make change successful in an organization.

What is the Stakeholder Engagement Plan?

300

Inputs to this plan include the Learning and Development Strategy, Stakeholder Analysis, and
Learning Needs Assessment.  Key components include Learning Groups, Learning curriculum, Skills
inventory and gap analysis for each learning group, Learning delivery plans, and learning evaluation and optimization plans.

What is The Learning and Development Plan?

300

This role supports stakeholder's results and is accountable for the realization of the benefits of a change.

What is a Sponsor?

400

The purpose of this strategy  is to identify an approach to ensure that individuals or groups impacted by a change and those who can positively affect the overall success of the change are engaged in the change effort.

What is the Stakeholder Engagement Strategy?

400

This plan defines the internal and external audiences, information, and feedback requirements of those leading and affected by the change, as well as the specific communication activities and events.

What is the Communication Plan?

400

Components of this plan include:


1) A schedule of measurement activities, including type, frequency, how conducted, and by whom

2) A report template for reporting measurement results at defined intervals to defined groups and individuals who own the metrics and are responsible for taking action to ensure targets are achieved

What is the Measurement and Benefits and Realization Plan?

400

Your project is nearly complete and you are ready to transfer the ownership from change resources to stakeholder operational resources.  You should evidence this transfer by obtaining this type of agreement from both parties.

What is a written agreement?

500

This strategy defines the approach for how an organization transitions from its current state to its future state and includes 7 key components; Communication, Sponsorship, Stakeholder Engagement, Change Impact & Readiness, Learning & Development, Measurement & Benefit Realization, and Sustainability.

What is the Change Management Strategy?

500

This plan defines how to identify, develop, and strengthen the competencies required to lead/sponsor a change initiative.

What is the Sponsorship Plan?

500

The inputs to this plan include a Status Report/Benefits Gap Analysis and a Resource Plan.  Components include Communication, Metrics Tracking, Performance Management, Rewards and Recognition, Sustaining Ownership, and Continuous Improvement.

What is the Sustainability Plan?

500

This condition occurs when the amount of change exceeds the organization’s capacity to absorb it, often resulting in fatigue, disengagement, or resistance.

What is change saturation?