Change Practitioner Toolkit - CPT

Change Management Practitioners plan, implement and successfully manage the impact of change. This toolkit offers online tools, assessments, templates, presentations, tutorials, research insights, and more to support the Change Management Practitioner's role.

Purpose of this framework

The Technology Adoption Launchpad® is an easy-to-use framework for enabling user adoption of technology change.

Parked with tens of online resources, including step-by-step guides, online assessment tools and calculators, and downloadable templates,  it is designed and accessed in four phases, accessible online in a bite-sized and easy-to-digest workflow. When you access the Transformation Launchpad®, you also receive a free copy of the 80-plus slide deck and templated workbook that you can complete as you walk through each phase of the launchpad.

The Technology Adoption Launchpad® is your definitive guide to completing the discovery, design, execution, and value realisation phases of your transformation change and user adoption journey.

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Purpose of this tool

Before implementing a transformational change initiative, you should assess its reception among key stakeholders and impacted groups and its likelihood of success. CRaT is an easy-to-use online tool developed based on six (6) readiness assessment pillars. Using the CRaT, you can evaluate potential challenges in initiating and implementing your change and proactively address them before you begin.

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Purpose of this calculator

Knowing what is changing, who is impacted, and assessing the risks that change exposes your organisation to is crucial to successful transformation. The Change Impact Assessment Calculator is created based on the Change Impact Assessment Model developed by North Sakara (creators of the changeportal). In creating the Change Impact Assessment Model, our expert consultants focused on four areas for assessing change impact. Learn more below.

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Purpose of this calculator

While change is taking place, your organisation should not only realise the benefits of the change. However, it should also improve business performance, develop the culture and capability, and ensure that the organisation is in an excellent position to undertake future change. 

The high-performance change assessment calculator is developed based on the High-Performance Change Model from North Sakara, which focuses on four (4) high-performance pillars. Learn more below.

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Purpose of this guide

A complex communication process requires careful planning and implementation. 

The 8-step process of creating a communications plan is the perfect guide that sets you on a journey of identifying the target audience, defining the key messages, and creating the appropriate communication content. Also in the 8-step process is how to draft and launch a communications plan.

Why this guide is useful to your role as a Change Management practitioner

As a Change Management practitioner, you will communicate to end users that change is coming, why the change is coming, when the change is coming, and who will be impacted by the change. This guide will be a valuable addition to the primary resources you will need as a Change Management practitioner. 

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Why a 10-point plan

Today, organizations are undergoing unpreceded change – from the impacts of COVID 19 to Brexit and to evolving consumer preferences. For organizations to adapt to these changes, and realise value from these changes, people need to adopt new ways of working. This may include subtle and/or major organizational changes, from implementing and adopting new operating models, systems, and tools to introducing new roles and business functions. 

However, what we know for sure is that people do not automatically change; as a matter of fact, resisting change is normal behaviour. 

It is for this reason that Resistance Management to change is central to success. This top-10 tips to management resistance to change is expected to be a guide to refer to when leading change.

Why this guide is useful to for your role as a Change Management practitioner.

Today, organisations are undergoing unpreceded change – from the impacts of COVID 19 to Brexit and evolving consumer preferences. For organisations to adapt to these changes and realise value from these changes, people need to adopt new ways of working. This may include subtle and significant organisational changes, from implementing and adopting new operating models, systems, and tools to introducing new roles and business functions. 

However, we know for sure that people do not automatically change; as a matter of fact, resisting change is normal behaviour. 

For this reason, Resistance Management to change is central to success. Therefore, these top-10 tips for managing resistance to change will serve as a guide when leading change.

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Change Champions drive engagement business and user adoption of change. In a technology rollout, change champions focus on driving adoption and proficiency of usage of the new technology. They also help reduce the pressure on the adoption and change team throughout the technology rollout. This six-point guide provides a structured approach to setting up your change champions community.

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Why a 5-step guide

This guide leverages on the 5-phased Instructional System Design (ISD) approach. It provides a structured approach to creating a Training Plan.

Purpose of this guide.

This guide leverages the 5-phased Instructional System Design (ISD) approach. It provides a structured approach to creating a Training Plan.

When managing change, it is crucial to appreciate that the success or failure of your change initiative hinges on the successful adoption of the change. In addition, for successful adoption to happen, the right environment needs to be created to allow people going through change to acquire knowledge and learn the right skills that will enable a successful transition from the old to new ways of working. 

Why this guide is useful to your role as a Change Management practitioner.

During and after transformation change, users may need to learn new ways of doing things, which may include, learnning how to use a new technology or apply new processes and procedures. As a Change Management practitioner it is your responsibility to support end users learn these new skills. This guide will provide you with what you need to get started.

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Why the master workbook

This workbook is a template and workbook with close to 100 standardised and customised slides in one Microsoft PowerPoint deck. We've put it together by adopting the Transformation Launchpad framework. What it means is that when you use the Transformation Launchpad you will also have a workbook where you can record the results of the activities recommended in the Transformation Launchpad.

Where and how to use the masterwork

• Change Management Strategy document: the masterwork can serve as the Change Management Strategy document. It's captivating slides and structured approach to managing change is a perfect document to articulate how change management will be deployed during a transformation change.
• Designed in a workbook form, it serves as a single point of content for documenting your change management execution plans.

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Read our collection of thought leadership articles on the North Sakara Blog Page.

• Change Champions Programme Workbook. Download.
• Change Discovery Workshop Prep Sheet. Download.
• Change Risk Assessment Workbook. Download.
• Communications Plan. Download.
• Change Deployment Plan. Download.
• Resource Planning Workbook. Download.
• Scenario Creation Prioritisation Workbook. Download.
• Stakeholder Register. Download.
• Training Plan. Download.
• Training Evaluation Form. Download.

Do you need support on to how deploy the Change Practitioner Toolkit (CPT) across your organisation? Do you need support on how to integrate elements of the CPT into a wider transformation programme?

North Sakara, creators and authors of the Change Portal - is here to help. Talk to our team of  Change Execution Consultants.

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