Change Management vs Project Management

Do you find yourself explaining aspects of your change management functions on a regular basis? Would you like an easy and engaging way to do that?

The Change Management Institute has put together a series of three short fun, engaging video animations to help with this challenge. These cover what change management is, how it overlaps and differs from project management, and what a change manager does.

Please feel free to share these videos with others in your organisation and network, who may like to learn more about Change Management, or you can download any of the three posters from our website

[CCMPApril]

Great video, change management institute!

[kasikana]

A very informative and constructive platform for al stakeholders.

[LD-wfyt]

The words missing in the video are "sponsored by (some) government/political party".
Instead of better managing bureaucracies in PM or CM, why not spend some time to understand something like the concept of assumption. For example, start by understanding the meaning of assumption, then presumption, hypothesis, opinion, bias, perception, conspiracy etc. Then put assumptions in the context of fears, uncertainty, filling the gaps, system thinking, critical thinking, inversion thinking, paradox thinking, insights etc. What about assumptions and various tools like SWOT, RAID, VUCA etc. Try to consider the impact of assumptions in different contexts: culture, strategic management, leadership, planning, decision making, behaviours, conflict etc. Do we write contracts, assertions, rules, etc because of assumptions? Assumptions as part of ideologies, propaganda, traditional hierarchy, conditioning etc.
So a great preparation for PM and CM would be to sit and talk about: how do we identify (unstated, underlying, hidden, etc) assumptions? how to challenge our assumptions? how do we change our assumptions? how do we deal with assumptions? why do we make assumptions? Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) environments are all fertile grounds for faulty assumptions.
Finally, the Iceberg model of change is a great way to reignite our mental abilities. The change management is about "connecting the dots" based on our needs, ethics, morality, resources, environment, skills, experience, assumptions etc.

[PhantomRaspberryBlower]

I think this is an entirely false dichotomy. All project managers should do change management. All change managers should be able to manage projects. Splitting the two out is non-sense. You change things to impact people. The people dictate the things you change and how.