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Evaluating Your Plan and Its Implications Overcoming Resistance to Change

Implementing Change

Once you have completed your plan and decided that it will work satisfactorily, it is time to implement it. This involves directing the resources to complete the activities specified, and monitoring the execution of the activities so that corrections can be applied if necessary. Monitoring execution also allows you to determine when the task has been achieved and activity can cease.

The planned section on Project Management (not yet uploaded) will consider plan implementation in detail.

Plan Execution Tools

Tools that can help you in the routine execution of a plan are:

Managing Change

It can be helpful to take four steps to ensure that you manage change effectively:

1. Ensure that everyone understands why change is necessary. If people are dissatisfied with the way that things are, they will be more likely to welcome change.

2. Show people how things will be better in the future.

3. Ensure that people understand the plan.

4. Try to ensure that there can be no way of going back to previous ways of doing things: ensure that only new forms are available, that computer systems reflect the new way of working, and that procedures work smoother under the new system than the old.

Evaluating Your Plan and Its Implications Overcoming Resistance to Change

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