About Change Management

Change Management is a methodology – made up of processes, tools, and techniques – to guide people through change in order to more effectively achieve a business or project outcome. Having a change management plan intertwined with a project management plan will help lead the “people side of change” and create a greater likelihood of success whether the change initiative is a process, system, organizational structure, or during a strategic realignment.

While there are many Change Management paradigms, UC San Diego has established trainings and developed practitioners using the Prosci ADKAR Model for individual change to drive organizational transformation. The ADKAR model for change measures, trains, and plans for the following:

• Awareness of the need for change
• Desire to participate and support the change
• Knowledge on how to change
• Ability to implement required skills and behaviors
• Reinforcement to sustain the change

Resources

• Introduction to what the Prosci Change Management and ADKAR model is, courtesy of Prosci
• The “Success Story” of how UCSD embedded Change Management practices as part of our culture, courtesy of Prosci
• UC Learning Center’s Change Management Practitioner Training (login required)