Announcements inform the business of project activities, initiatives, achievements and risks. They give staff assurance of project intent, and how the project team are tracking against project deliverables.
The announcements come from different stakeholder groups and can have different purposes. Some of the purposes include advises of intent (Level 1 announcements), endorsement and assurance (Level 2 announcements), and the details of how and when (Level 3 announcements).
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the top four announcements you need to make to get your project off to the best start possible and who’s involved in making them.
Approximately 10 Minutes
In Month Two it is important to set the expectations of others that this is going to be an inclusive and fun Change Program. Trust is important so getting information out that tells how the Project Team is going to keep all staff up to date is very important.
Although pretty soon after Month 02 it will be about developing your Change and Communication Strategy, Engagement Plans and other key high level documents to formulate the big picture of the change project noting project structure, what key stakeholders are involved and key dates, a ‘heads-up’ should be provided to each of the Project Team, Work Stream Leads and Change Champions so they know what to expect discussions to center on and can start to form their own thoughts for discussions.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the second month of their Change Project will include them forming communication packs to set the minds of the leadership at ease.
Approximately 20 Minutes
A Communication Engagement Plan may also be known as a ‘comms plan’, ‘engagement plan’, ‘comms activity plan’, ‘working comms approach’, ‘content plan’ or similar.
Developing a Communication Engagement Plan serves to reinforce the vision of the project and earn the support from the project team. It demonstrates how to deliver messages to the business.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how to prepare your communication engagement plan for the Change and Comms Strategy plus any milestones in the project.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Month 03 is a big one.
Now, it's about getting into the Pack development and distribution and starting to work with the business. Relationships are starting to form with other Work Stream Leads, and the Change Manager will be socializing all the initiatives they will be working on.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the third month of their Change Project will include socializing the Change & Communications Strategy with the PCG and getting signoff.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Experiential learning is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as ‘learning through reflection on doing’.
One of the most common experiential learning processes that a design team and change manager will embark upon is the staff engagement surveys or workshops where discovery, culture or brand, mind mapping and co-creation will be discovered.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of experiential learning, the common processes, and what can be achieved/uncovered from these workshops.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Research will cover many facets of the project namely design, flexible working, space optimization.
Having an approach for recording and responding to feedback that come to the project teams attention is also a vital initiative for project success and future lessons learned.
It is important that as much information on business functions and standard workplace space and technology requirements are known at this time.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the key aspects that will influence an accommodation plan and that ‘Research’ will be undertaken across many if not all phases of the project.
Approximately 15 Minutes