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Think how often you manage change. Consider all the causes of change: schedule revisions, requirements “adjustments,” design refinements, re-focus of corporate direction, and so on. This is not the change management (or change control) for a project – it is organizational change management.
Management of change from one way of thinking and working to another way of thinking and working takes a special set of skills. Besides the obvious people skills necessary, there are political skills and business skills involved. These skills can accelerate your move from a manager to a leader.
Management of change from one way of thinking and working to another way of thinking and working takes a special set of skills. Besides the obvious people skills necessary, there are political skills and business skills involved. These skills can accelerate your move from a manager to a leader.
So how much training have you had in organizational change management? How much understanding do you have of the affects of organizational change on workers and how to get them to maintain performance in a “new” organization or process? Probably not much. You may have been prepared for regular routine of cranking out project tasks using a particular process. That training may have been excellent and useful, actually, but it certainly does not present the full picture of what tools and techniques a project manager must have.
To be an advanced project manager, to reach another level higher, you will have to learn and use change management tools and techniques. I’m going to jump out on a limb and suggest that the current economy is going to force organizational changes, even if they are only to satisfy shareholders.
Start here. Search gantthead.com for change management tools and techniques and check out the 1500-plus items we have. That should get you started.
Posted on: February 04, 2008 07:59 AM |
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