This course is all about change management. But we must remember that it's still a project. And project management and change management are two ends of a spectrum. And if you're not dealing in both the discipline of project management and change management, then you won't succeed. So what is a project? Well, a project is a coordinated set of tasks that together bring about something new, a change, and they do so with restrictions on resources and budget and time.

So, what are the stages of a project? Well, firstly, you need to define the change that you need to create. You need to identify a goal and some objectives. And you need to define the scope what is in scope what is out of scope, what you aren't going to do what you're not going to do that way You have a clear definition of the change you're going to bring about. Building on your definition, you then need to start to plan the change, you need to think about how you're going to unfreeze people from their current state, how you're going to transition them into the new state, and how you're going to rephrase them. It's the old state, you're gonna need to think about communications, anticipate the resistance you're likely to encounter, and prepare for it.

And then you need to deliver your change project you need to execute the process of preparing people for the change the unfreezing transitioning and refreezing. And I suppose the nearest equivalent to the project handover in a normal project lifecycle is the point of transition. Often there will be an overlap in a training project between what's gone before and what's going to follow. But you will have some sort of transitional phase the difference I suppose is that beyond the transition, there is still project execution to happen as you support people through that transition, and as you support through the refreezing, and then finally there will be a project closure stage where everything has settled down. It's now business as usual and you can close the project down and stand your change team down. This is where you review what you've done and you extract lesson learned you do or the admin and at that point, you can start to celebrate the success.

Hopefully, the performance of the organization will now have risen to the level anticipated during the death.