OPM: Tactics for Employee Readiness (Part 1)

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.

  Organizational Project Management  

Implementing organizational project management (OPM) is a large undertaking. Like any large undertaking, success depends on ensuring the workforce accepts the change—and is later ready to execute the change. Workforce impact and readiness must be incorporated into your feasibility determinations, implementation planning and the implementation itself. One tactic revolving around judicious use of survey questions can help you short cut to success…

Tactics for Calculating Feasibility and Implementation Planning

1. Derive end-to-end information from feasibility surveys. An early step in organizational project management is the feasibility calculation. If found feasible, planning can begin. If you consider the entire effort, the questions you ask in a survey or in focus groups can be useful for feasibility checks, as well as implementation planning.

You want to derive the following information:

• Whether there is general openness to the idea
• Whether there will be one or more resistant groups (and, if so, which ones)
• How difficult it will be to develop the standard policies and processes required across the organization

2. Use “revealing” survey questions. Your surveys and research may cover other areas, but these example questions help reveal the current situation for better feasibility …

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