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Organizational Change Management for Project Managers

A two-day applied workshop for project managers who are tired of shipping projects that nobody uses. Practical OCM techniques integrated directly into the PM lifecycle — sponsor coaching, stakeholder plans, comms cadences, and adoption metrics.

Organizational Change Management for Project Managers
Format
Live virtual, in-person, or private on-site
Duration
2 days
Level
Practitioner
From
$1495.00

About this course

Course overview

Projects ship. Adoption is a separate problem — and it's yours to solve.

This two-day applied workshop is for project and program managers who are tired of delivering technically successful projects that never quite get adopted. It takes the practices from change management and integrates them directly into the PM lifecycle — so the OCM work happens in parallel with the delivery work, not as an afterthought when the go-live date slips.

Every activity is built around a running case study and your own real projects. You practice running a stakeholder impact assessment, coaching a difficult sponsor, writing a communication plan that doesn't put people to sleep, spotting resistance signals early, and measuring adoption against a baseline. By day two, the techniques are coming out of your hands, not your notes.

Learning outcomes

What you'll learn

Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.

  • Integrate OCM activities directly into the PM lifecycle
  • Run a stakeholder impact and readiness assessment on a real project
  • Coach a sponsor who is under-committing to their role
  • Write a communication plan that holds audience attention across phases
  • Spot and address resistance early enough to do something about it
  • Define adoption metrics and measure them against a baseline

Audience

Who it's for

  • Project and program managers owning the adoption outcome on their initiatives
  • PMO leaders raising the OCM bar across the project portfolio
  • Change sponsors and product leaders launching new tools or processes
  • BAs and solution leads who are tired of requirements traceability being the only guarantee

Course structure

Syllabus

A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.

Module 1

Day 1 — OCM Inside the PM Lifecycle

  • Where OCM work fits across initiation, planning, execution, closure
  • Stakeholder impact and readiness assessment
  • Sponsor coaching — when the sponsor is the problem
  • Communication planning and audience segmentation
Module 2

Day 2 — Resistance, Adoption & Sustainment

  • Recognizing and responding to resistance
  • Adoption metrics and how to baseline them
  • Sustaining change past go-live
  • Case study wrap: running OCM on a real project

Public cohorts

Upcoming sessions

Secure your seat in a live, instructor-led cohort. Private team deliveries available on request.

No public cohorts on the calendar yet.

We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.

Frequently asked questions

Still have questions?

Do I need to have taken Change Management Essentials first?
Not required, but helpful. The Essentials workshop is a one-day foundation on models; this is the applied workshop for PMs. Taking both sequentially gives a complete picture.
Can this be delivered as a private cohort?
Yes. Private deliveries use your actual projects as the case study material — which dramatically increases the real-world impact.

Bring this training to your team

We deliver private cohorts in-person and online, tailored to your operating context.