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    10 Question Checklist On Change Management Sponsorship

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    This 10-point checklist evaluates how effectively senior leaders are sponsoring organizational change initiatives. The checklist addresses whether sponsors are: 1) Aware of their important role in change success, 2) Understanding their key responsibilities to actively participate, build coalitions, and communicate, 3) Visibly involved throughout projects, 4) Building relationships with other necessary leaders, 5) Directly communicating with employees, and 6) Prepared to manage resistance, celebrate successes, set priorities, and avoid frequent changes. The checklist can be used to audit sponsor engagement and ensure best practices are followed to improve chances of change success.

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    This 10-point checklist evaluates how effectively senior leaders are sponsoring organizational change initiatives. The checklist addresses whether sponsors are: 1) Aware of their important role in change success, 2) Understanding their key responsibilities to actively participate, build coalitions, and communicate, 3) Visibly involved throughout projects, 4) Building relationships with other necessary leaders, 5) Directly communicating with employees, and 6) Prepared to manage resistance, celebrate successes, set priorities, and avoid frequent changes. The checklist can be used to audit sponsor engagement and ensure best practices are followed to improve chances of change success.

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    This 10-point checklist evaluates how effectively senior leaders are sponsoring organizational change initiatives. The checklist addresses whether sponsors are: 1) Aware of their important role in change success, 2) Understanding their key responsibilities to actively participate, build coalitions, and communicate, 3) Visibly involved throughout projects, 4) Building relationships with other necessary leaders, 5) Directly communicating with employees, and 6) Prepared to manage resistance, celebrate successes, set priorities, and avoid frequent changes. The checklist can be used to audit sponsor engagement and ensure best practices are followed to improve chances of change success.

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    10 Question Checklist On Change Management Sponsorship

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    This 10-point checklist evaluates how effectively senior leaders are sponsoring organizational change initiatives. The checklist addresses whether sponsors are: 1) Aware of their important role in change success, 2) Understanding their key responsibilities to actively participate, build coalitions, and communicate, 3) Visibly involved throughout projects, 4) Building relationships with other necessary leaders, 5) Directly communicating with employees, and 6) Prepared to manage resistance, celebrate successes, set priorities, and avoid frequent changes. The checklist can be used to audit sponsor engagement and ensure best practices are followed to improve chances of change success.

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    10 Question Checklist on Change Management Sponsorship

    https://www.prosci.com/resources/articles/change-sponsor-checklist

    This checklist can be used as an audit tool to see if you are utilizing best practices in how you
    engage the senior leaders on your change initiatives.
    Are your sponsors?:
    1. Aware of the Importance They Play in Making Changes Successful?
    The greatest overall contributor to project success is active and visible sponsorship, as discovered
    every year by Prosci’s benchmarking research on change management. Make sure your sponsors
    know this finding.

    2. Aware of Their Three Biggest Roles in Supporting Organizational Change?


    Senior leaders must:
    • Participate actively and visibly throughout the project
    • Build a coalition of sponsorship with managers and peers
    • Communicate effectively with employees
    In the 2017 benchmarking study, over 50% of study participants ranked their sponsor as having a
    moderate to poor understanding of their role.

    3. Active and Visible Throughout the Project?


    Effective sponsors must be involved in more than just signing their names on the project charter.
    Sponsor engagement must happen throughout the life of the project, from the kickoff to project
    completion. Effective sponsors cannot disappear or remain in the background.
    4. Building the Coalitions Necessary for the Change to be Successful?
    Sponsors must interact with and engage with the other leaders to make changes successful. In the
    Prosci change management methodology, a sponsor diagram reveals which other business leaders
    and managers are needed for the change to be successful. The primary sponsor must build
    relationships and commitment with these other key leaders.

    5. Communicating Directly and Effectively with Employees?


    As noted in the communication checklist, the sponsors of change are one of the two preferred
    senders of communication messages. Your sponsors need to directly communicate with employees
    about the business reasons for change, risks of not changing and why the change is happening
    now.

    6. Aware that the Biggest Mistake is Failing to Personally Engage as the Sponsor?
    Participants in the 2017 study noted a high rate of failure of personal sponsor engagement,
    including not participating through the entire project, abdicating their role to lower-level managers or
    the project team and failing to communicate the reasons for change with immediate employees.
    Project teams face tremendous difficulties when they have a sponsor who does not personally
    engage in the change.

    7. Prepared to Manage Resistance?


    Managing resistance is a key role of senior leaders, managers and supervisors. Your sponsor
    needs to be prepared and ready to deal with resistance in the organization, especially from other
    senior or mid-level managers. As a change manager in the organization, you will need to coach
    senior leaders on how to identify the root causes of resistance and how to engage and manage
    resistance when it happens.

    8. Prepared to Celebrate Successes?


    Celebrating successes (even small, short-term successes) is an important part in building support
    and momentum for your changes. Sponsors play a key role in recognizing employees both publicly
    and privately.

    9. Setting Clear Priorities Regarding this Initiative, Other Initiatives and Day-To-Day
    Work?
    Sponsors influence priorities through their behaviors, actions and communications. Sponsors must
    show both their own and the organization's commitment to a change if they expect employees
    throughout the organization to become engaged.

    10. Avoiding the 'Flavor of the Month' Syndrome?


    ‘Flavor of the month' describes a situation where organizations are constantly introducing and
    abandoning initiatives. A 'flavor of the month' situation where new initiatives are launched every
    month and not completed creates a very difficult background for creating any meaningful change. In
    the organization, sponsors are responsible for launching new initiatives and ensuring that new
    projects are not just the next 'flavor’.

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