APM Enabling Change Interest Network

Welcome to the APM Enabling Change Interest Network.

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Our purpose? To help the project community embed the principles of change management and improve the change capability of organisations, teams and individuals worldwide. 

Our goal is to support the change agenda across other Interest Networks and APM members through the Regional Networks, and actively participate in change-related discussions. 

What do we do? When organisations implement new systems, processes or structural changes, it's crucial to consider how people will react. As you manage the new agenda, how will you bring everyone along on the journey of change? How will you embed the new ways of working and ensure they are adopted effectively?  

As we know, implementing a new system or process doesn't guarantee that people will adapt to it. That's where change management comes in! 

What we offer our followers? Effective tools to help organisations manage change, including our ‘managing change’ guide, change readiness assessments, empathy maps as well as an extensive collection of reference materials.  

We cultivate communities of senior change practitioners, from both the public and private sector, as well as academics and authors. These "Change Practitioner Groups” share knowledge and experience, explore challenges and opportunities and sharpen people’s change capabilities. 

How to get involved? Our team of volunteers organise collaborative webinars, particularly with the People Interest Network. We also host conferences and events with organisations like the Change Management Institute on topics like how our brains react to change. 

“When confronted with change, emotions often take precedence,” says network lead Donna Unitt. “As change managers, our goal is to shift people to a more positive mindset by highlighting the personal benefits and addressing what's in it for them.” 

Change management is a structured approach to moving an organisation from the current state to the desired future state.

Definition from APM Body of Knowledge 7^th edition

The Enabling Change Interest Network is highly collaborative, supporting and enabling the change agenda across other Interest Networks and APM members through the Regional Networks, and participating in change related discussions across APM. 

We have a balanced focus on internal and external activities, establishing and developing partnerships with other relevant organisations and groups in order to ensure that we are at the forefront of thought leadership on change-specific topics.

Our mission

Our mission is to 'improve the change capability of organisations, teams and individuals'.

How we work

The Enabling Change Interest Network aims to develop and sustain individual practitioner, team and organisational change capability by facilitating access to and exploration of change methods, standards, case studies and good practices.

We have a growing collection of reference material on our website, and have produced an introductory guide.

We foster “Change Practitioner Groups”: communities of senior change practitioners in public and private sectors, academics and authors who wish to share their knowledge and experience, explore and address challenges and opportunities for enhancing the change capability of their organisations, teams and individuals.

We also conduct innovative research to support our work and generally advance the body of knowledge relating to enabling change.