Support Change as a Project Manager

Project managers play a pivotal role in turning change into action. From planning and execution to communication and stakeholder alignment, your leadership ensures that change initiatives stay on track and deliver value. This page provides information and strategies to help you manage change and project activities, effectively balancing timelines, resources, and team dynamics while keeping people at the center of the process.

This article applies to: Organizational Change Management

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Skills for Project Managers

These courses and quick lessons are available for free through Organizational Development and Effectiveness offerings as well as in LinkedIn or Skillsoft. Login to register or access the material. (Note that the LinkedIn and Skillsoft videos will open in a new window.)

Explore how change can impact both responsibilities and relationships, then learn how to adjust, adapt, and embrace the change as a growth opportunity.

Watch: Change Management for Projects (75 min)

Learn about the importance of planning change management activities for a project, and confidently approach the people side of project management. The instructor details what type of resistance to look out for and how to tackle it effectively; how to train people with different learning styles; how to plan change communications; how to deal with team members who lack motivation; and more.

Watch: Adapt and Thrive, Change Management Skills Every Project Manager Needs (45 min)

Learn how to lay the foundations of change and to understand the value of change in project management, how to plan and execute your own change management plan while assessing risks and communicating changes with your organization.

Watch: Project Inspired Change (6 min)
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Learn to recognize ways projects are a vehicle for change in organizations.

Prosci for Project Managers

Prosci offers a suite of research-based tools, training, and frameworks—like the widely used ADKAR® Model—to help you lead change effectively alongside project execution.

These Prosci videos can help you integrate change management into your work and deliver lasting results.

What is Change Management? (4 min)

Prosci's short video about organizational change.

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CIT offers interactive workshops on organizational change management fundamentals at no cost to all faculty and staff.

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