How to become a change manager
Key takeaways
Change management moves an organisation from the current state to a better future state through structured adoption.
- A dedicated change manager improves the odds of delivery by tailoring best practice to organisational culture.
- Core responsibilities include risk mitigation, resistance management, readiness checks, and embedding activities into the project plan.
- Effective plans cover communications, sponsorship, coaching, training, and clear success metrics.
- Key competencies are communication, influencing, coaching, strategic judgement, project discipline, and self-management.
is the act of transitioning an organisation from an existing situation (or current state) to a situation providing more desirable outcomes (a future state). It requires teamwork, hard work, and best practise change management tools and processes to reach the future state.
Applying change in organisations requires optimism, determination and dedication. Therefore, a person must oversee the change strategy and be able to drive it to its proper destination. That person is the change manager.
Many change managers learn the key change management tools and techniques by attending one of these professional
References
[1] The Change Management Institute (CMI) (2014). The Effective Change Manager’s Handbook. Australia: Vivid Publishing. 4-5
[2] Prosci. (Unknown). Change Management Job Description. Available: https://www.prosci.com/resources/articles/change-management-job-description. Last accessed 22 Oct 2018.