Project delays or changes to project schedules can happen due to budget constraints, resourcing issues, scope changes, or other unexpected events. As a Change Manager, what should you do when your go-live date changes? Use this checklist to organize your thoughts and next steps to help you take action when your go-live date changes.
Executive transitions are high stakes for leaders and their institutions. This session helps new leaders and employees working with new leaders to navigate transition by learning how to identify and assess opportunities and risks in guiding their institution through change initiatives. Presenters will draw from real-world experiences on strategies fully applicable to executive transitions.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand individual, institutional, and cultural factors associated with senior level transitions in higher education
- Identify and assess priorities for successful transformation
- Implement change management strategies to achieve change initiatives
Change analytics adds measurable value to change management enabling trend visualization and turning spreadsheet data into actionable information. Avaap can help you arm your team with insights to drive
metric-driven change management practices, recognize the need for course corrections earlier, and highlight updates on progress.
Workday change initiatives impact the whole organization. As the number of modules and
stakeholders increase, so does project complexity. Our certified Workday consultants have built experience across institutions of all sizes to help you develop an action plan and guiding principles to manage any HR, financial, and student changes effectively.
Change requires people to do something differently, making human resources a crucial partner in successfully guiding their organization through transformation. Adopting new behaviors and habits does not happen on its own. HR is where people go when they have concerns or want their needs addressed.
Here are eight questions HR leaders should bring to the next team meeting when planning for change and managing resistance to it.
A single voice can be a powerful force to influence and command the attention of others. One influential person can drive the advancement of organizational change or be the source of significant challenges and resistance. Join Avaap Change Management expert Brenda Robinson as she describes the power of one in organizational change, shares real-world examples of how a singular voice can catalyze a change event, and discusses lessons learned from recent client projects. This session covers how to identify and mitigate opposing forces to change initiatives and guide their organization toward success.
Learning Objectives:
-Describe the power of one and how quiet voices can enhance or derail project success
-Understand how the power of one can impact team engagement, morale, and collaboration
-Implement strategies to leverage the power of one in change initiatives
Creating a personal change plan is essential for taking personal accountability in change. Download this best practices guide to help you develop your own plan.
Leaders are constantly faced with the challenge of ensuring people stay focused, engaged, and productive during times of disruption. The compounding change fatigue created by ongoing pandemic uncertainty makes it more important than ever for a deliberate and intentional approach to building resilience within organizations to create a healthy foundation for growth and innovation.
Avaap Vice President Angelo Mazzocco, an Avaap advisory practice leader with more than 25 years of experience as a former CIO, and Judith Schouten, Avaap principal change management consultant will present strategies for leading teams through change based on real-world customer examples. Angelo and Judith will help you understand change fatigue, resilience, and how your organization can strengthen its change and organizational resilience capacity.
This session will explain the value of taking a strategic pause to develop their personal skillset in navigating change and understand strategies to strengthen their organization’s resilience and change capacity.
Watch this session to learn:
Attendees will learn:
- The key factors impacting organizational resilience and how to take focused action to strengthen it
- How to strengthen organizational resilience in the face of disruptive change
- Ways to engage and support others as they work through changes using the competencies of emotional intelligence
A key element to any change initiative is stakeholder engagement to mitigate risk and improve the likelihood of success. While transformations in higher education often focus on faculty and staff, students are also impacted and often overlooked as part of the change management process.
Now more than ever, today’s students are diverse digital natives. Some may be first generation college students and others may not fit the traditional student mold, but they are all digitally savvy and experience change differently. Expectations are evolving around remote learning, mobile accessibility, and an increased focus on student success, and there is a need for institutions to actively engage students in the change process.
In this session, led by Avaap higher education change management experts Melissa Parinello and Elena Rae Schultz, attendees will discuss techniques for managing change and increasing student engagement, and explore the generational differences to consider when working with students as stakeholders.
Discover the power of integrating analytics into your change management strategy. Join Avaap experts in learning about setting change management goals, change assessments, and how strategic decisions can be enhanced with data visualization and analytics. Attendees will learn key change management concepts, how to manage your change portfolio with analytics, and about strategic decision-making when it comes to change.