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 Evaluating Your Plan and Its Implications  Overcoming Resistance to Change
Implementing ChangeOnce you have completed your plan and decided that it will work satisfactorily, it is time to implement it. This involves directing the resources to complete the activities specified, and monitoring the execution of the activities so that corrections can be applied if necessary. Monitoring execution also allows you to determine when the task has been achieved and activity can cease.The planned section on Project Management (not yet uploaded) will consider plan implementation in detail. Plan Execution ToolsTools that can help you in the routine execution of a plan are:- Year Planners
This allows you to show tasks, task duration and completion dates, and track periods when resources will not be available. - Diary
For recording of achievement dates, intermediate target dates and routine activities. - Statistics & Analytical Tools
These are useful for tracking progress. A Mind Tools section on these is planned, and will be uploaded soon.
Managing ChangeIt can be helpful to take four steps to ensure that you manage change effectively:1. Ensure that everyone understands why change is necessary. If people are dissatisfied with the way that things are, they will be more likely to welcome change. 2. Show people how things will be better in the future. 3. Ensure that people understand the plan. 4. Try to ensure that there can be no way of going back to previous ways of doing things: ensure that only new forms are available, that computer systems reflect the new way of working, and that procedures work smoother under the new system than the old. |
