Change Management Plan Checklist

CHANGE MANAGEMENT PLANNING

Have you...

• Identified project results and outcomes?
• Selected and applied a systematic approach (methodology) for managing the people side of change?
• Allocated enough and dedicated resources for change management?
• Assessed impact & risk and adapted accordingly?
• Assessed Change Readiness?
• Engaged project teams to explain why and how change should be effectively managed?
• Developed the necessary change management plans?
• Integrated your change management activities into your project management steps or lifecycle?
• Presented your change management plans to those involved in the execution (sponsors, project teams, etc.)?

SPONSORSHIP (Promoters)

Have you...

• Developed your primary sponsor’s understanding of roles and responsibilities?
• Enabled your primary sponsor to deliver key communications that are expected from senior leadership?
• Drawn up the sponsorship coalition roadmap (with leaders from all impacted groups) needed for your initiative?
• Enabled your sponsor to build this coalition with the required senior leaders?

COMMUNICATION

Have you...

• Identified all the different audiences you need to communicate with throughout the organization?
• Identified who the ideal sender of communication messages will be?
• Identified the most effective channels of communication?
• Created mechanisms to enable two-way communication?
• Created the expectation that managers and supervisors will be coaches of their direct reports during change?
• Prepared Managers/Leaders to communicate the “what’s in it for me” messages to their direct reports?
• Provided the knowledge, training and tools to help supervisors identify and respond to resistance?

RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT

Have you...

• Proactively identified what resistance might look like?
• Proactively identified where resistance is likely to come from?
• Developed measures to prevent or mitigate resistance before it happens?
• Developed an approach to deal with resistance when it occurs?

TRAINING

Have you...

• Identified current skill levels?
• Identified skill gaps?
• Created engaging training curriculums aligned with adult learning theory?
• Effectively scheduled training when people need it?

REINFORCEMENT

Have you...

• Created a system to track the adoption and usage of the new solution?
• Established a way to gather feedback from those who are being impacted by the change?
• Implemented mechanisms for diagnosing gaps and resistance?

If you require assistance with developing your Change Management Plan, or with one of the Preparing or Managing Change activities (i.e. Communications, Training) please contact your Sparkrock Project Manager to arrange a needs assessment meeting.

Return to Change Management Toolkit in the Change Management guide