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Selling New Governance Standards (Without the Bright Plaid Jacket)
Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.
So you want to deploy new governance standards. No matter how fantastic they are, you will experience resistance from the workforce. You must deal with this resistance in order to successfully deploy the new standards.
Your approach to getting buy-in for standards depends on the environmental circumstances in your organization. There are four common situations associated with new standards that require different communication strategies:
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The governance standards are the first standards deployed throughout your IT organization
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You are replacing established standards with new standards
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Your organization has a history of deploying new, hot processes or standards ("Flavor of the Month")
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Your organization is deploying new standards with new, untested leadership
First Consistent Standards Attempted
The Environment: This is the first time that your entire IT organization has adopted a single set of standards. In the past, different groups may have used their own processes, or may have used a standard process to differing degrees (so why does everyone call them "standards"?).
What the Workforce is Thinking: "Oh great! This will be as successful as every other effort to go corporate-wide with a program. Remember that HR fiasco?"
Don't underestimate the …
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