070 - Change Management Mic Drops with Tim Creasey

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Project Managers are agents of change. Whether your project changes organizations, technologies, infrastructure or processes, the success of your project likely depends on *people* actually using your deliverables. But how much of your project is really focused on those people and helping them understand and make those changes? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spoiler: Kate *totally* nerds out on this one :-) After we recorded this, Kate and Kim quoted Tim to just about everyone they met. Mic drops! </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this podcast we are joined by one of the most influential thought-leaders in Change Management today, Tim Creasey, the CIO of Prosci. Tim will take us through the 5 tenets of change management, and their corresponding plain language questions:</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">We change for a reason</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Plain language question: Why are we changing? </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Who has to do their job differently, and how? </span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Organizational change requires individual change</span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How much of our outcomes depend on adoption and usage? </span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Organizational outcomes are the collective result of individual change</span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What will we do to support adoption and usage? </span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Change Management is an enabling fra