“How much Change Management will my project need?”

Higher Education is experiencing historic rates of evolution and transformation brought on, in part, by rapidly changing technology, a focus on student retention and engagement, and opportunities to streamline back-office operations. Changing systems, data, processes, and people creates challenges for most organizations. Change management is key to project success.

But budgets are tight and resources are limited, which begs the question, “how much change management will my project need?”

This session, led by Shannan Simms, PhD., a Prosci® certified change management expert and our Organizational Change Management Practice Leader, will walk you through key considerations and tools to support a rapid analysis to quantify how much effort to invest in your change management interventions.

By the end of this webinar, you’ll be able to:
– Determine the importance of change management and its impact on the likeliness of project success
– Describe and quantify key factors in scoping your OCM effort
– Create a summary-level assessment of scope and staffing for your project

The rapidly shifting landscape is creating an unprecedented level of uncertainty – impacting leadership effectiveness and challenging team productivity. Leading Effectively Through Time of Rapid Change: Leading Virtually is the first webinar in a three-part webinar series hosted by Avaap’s Vice President of Organizational Change Management Barbari Griesse and Dr. Shannan Simms. The series includes real-life tactical approaches for adjusting your leadership style for a virtual work environment, sustaining team performance, and preparing for the eventual return to a new normal.

This three-part series is designed for leaders who: want to increase effectiveness in a rapidly changing virtual environment; want to adopt techniques to keep teams productive and engaged; and are wondering how to prepare teams for the new normal.

These sessions cover real-world tactical approaches to proactively support and align the workforce so to adapt to new ways of working. By using a structured approach, leaders will preserve team connectivity and productivity during this uncertain time.

View the webinar series here.

Leading Virtually

Learn real-life, tactical approaches that enhance your leadership in a virtual environment and ensure you and your team are set up for success.

Change management is key to project success, but how much change management is enough? This session, led by Shannan Simms, PhD., a Prosci® certified change management expert, will walk attendees through custom analysis to support an educated and objective decision with respect to how much effort to invest in the change management interventions needed to ensure future project’s success. Attendees will learn how to scope an effective organizational change management program and leave with an action plan that addresses the human side of a technology implementation.

The rapidly shifting landscape is creating an unprecedented level of uncertainty – impacting leadership effectiveness and challenging team productivity. Leading Effectively Through Time of Rapid Change: Sustaining Team Engagement is the second webinar in a three-part webinar series hosted by Avaap’s Vice President of Organizational Change Management Barbari Griesse and Dr. Shannan Simms. The series includes real-life tactical approaches for adjusting your leadership style for a virtual work environment, sustaining team performance, and preparing for the eventual return to a new normal.

This three-part series is designed for leaders who want to increase effectiveness in a rapidly changing virtual environment, want to adopt techniques to keep teams productive and engaged, and are wondering how to prepare teams for the new normal.

Attendees will leave with real-world tactical approaches to proactively support and align the workforce so they may adapt to new ways of working. By using a structured approach, leaders will preserve team connectivity and productivity during this uncertain time.

View the webinar series here.

Sustaining Team Engagement

Reinforce and sustain your team’s engagement and productivity throughout the time you work virtually.

The rapidly shifting landscape is creating an unprecedented level of uncertainty impacting leadership effectiveness and challenging team productivity. Leading Effectively Through Time of Rapid Change: Sustaining Team Engagement is the third webinar in a three-part series hosted by Avaap’s Vice President of Organizational Change Management Barbari Griesse and Dr. Shannan Simms. The series includes real-life tactical approaches for adjusting your leadership style for a virtual work environment, sustaining team performance, and preparing for the eventual return to a new normal.

This three-part series is designed for leaders who want to increase effectiveness in a rapidly changing virtual environment, want to adopt techniques to keep teams productive and engaged, and are wondering how to prepare teams for the new normal.

Attendees will leave with real-world tactical approaches to proactively support and align the workforce so they may adapt to new ways of working. By using a structured approach, leaders will preserve team connectivity and productivity during this uncertain time.

View the webinar series here.

Transitioning Back to Your New Normal

Learn strategies that will help you and your team prepare for the new normal.

As a result of COVID-19, colleges and universities have had to be more flexible and agile. Agility During Uncertainty is a series of 30-minute fireside chats with university leaders about how they are using organizational change management, business intelligence, and more to keep staff engaged, students learning, and begin planning for the future.

With his team 100% remote, Associate Vice President for Enterprise Applications & Enterprise Project Director Mike Anderson had to adapt to this new normal. Learn how Ohio State is staying agile.

You are in the thick of change every day. Would you believe it is not the amount of change that presents the biggest challenges to success? Research indicates that it is how changes are experienced that make or break initiatives and the people involved.

This session explores:
– The personal experience of change
– Common reactions across the change curve
– Change fatigue factors affecting you and your team

These set the foundation needed for building change resilience in you and your people.