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You were hired to manage change but the pre-work was never done

What to do when you join a project that is already in trouble.

Hi ,


It is one of the most common situations in organizational change management.


You are brought onto a project during Testing, the Go-Live date is six weeks away, and nobody can tell you whether a stakeholder assessment was ever completed.


You are not being asked to manage change. You are being asked to manage the consequences of a plan that was never built.


In our latest post, we break down the Change Manager's Project Activity Guide and show you exactly where organizational change management work belongs in the project lifecycle, what happens when those activities are skipped, and how to triage effectively when you inherit a project with gaps you did not create.


You will walk away knowing which pre-work activities carry the highest risk when skipped, how to conduct a rapid assessment on a project already in motion, and how to make the case for earlier organizational change management involvement on every future engagement.


Your next project deserves a better starting point.


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