2009 Spring Workshop Series

The New Information Management Skills II

Tuesday and Wednesday, May 12th & 13th, 2009
The Sheraton Ottawa - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
150 Albert Street
Registration at 8:00 am
Workshops run concurrently from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm on both days

Mastering Change, Making your IM Project a Success

Are big changes in store for IM in your organisation? Project Management is not enough to ensure success.

Statistics show that more than 70% of major change initiatives fail to reach their objectives. Projects often take longer to implement than expected and return on investment is never realized, making senior management question the validity of future investment.

Learn how to ensure success by understanding how change affects people and incorporating proven Change Management principles into your project plan.

Workshop Content

Presentation: Mastering Change
Exercise: Change Leadership Skills Assessment
Exercise: Perception of Change Model
Open discussion
Summary

Participants will:

Understand why a Change Management approach is critical to project success
Learn how to sell a Change Management approach to senior management
Learn how to assess their own change leadership skills and identify areas of strength and areas where improvement is needed
Learn how to select the right team members
Understand why employees react to change the way they do

About Your Workshop Facilitator

François Lizotte is a Change Management Consultant and President of François Lizotte Consulting Incorporated (FLCI). For over ten years, he has successfully led organizations through complex organizational and technological changes. He brings more than twenty years of managerial experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors. He is a certified instructor in the William Bridges model on Change and Transition. He understands the human factors that must be considered for change initiatives to be successful and proposes strategies to ensure that projects succeed and deliver expected returns on investment.