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APM Enabling Change Interest Network

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Welcome to the APM Enabling Change Interest Network.

Ready to make a difference? Dive into our network and become part of something truly special. Whether you're passionate about volunteering, seeking valuable resources on Enabling Change, or eager to network with like minded project professionals at our exciting events, there's a place for you here.

Volunteer opportunities await. Join us to create positive change! From webinars to networking events, there are countless ways you can contribute your time and skills to make a difference.

Discover valuable resources. Empower yourself with knowledge and tools to drive progress forward. Explore our resources below filled with insightful articles, practical guides, and useful tools designed to support your career.

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 7th 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.

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Members can now connect with us on the APM Community

APM Members* can now connect directly with other members of the network, discuss network topics, join network events and fulfil their volunteer roles within the APM Community.

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Apply to be an APM Interest Network Volunteer

This ongoing volunteering opportunity offers a chance to support and facilitate knowledge sharing and production of thought leadership content in the network's area of interest.

Volunteers can be a member or non-member of APM and can apply to join a team at anytime.

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Featured resources

Change Management Professional Horizons for Success

We have developed this document to capture the existing routes and potential learning gaps into the Change Management profession. An ideal opportunity to review you, and your teams career path, how to start on your change management journey, or improve your knowledge, capability and mind-set in delivering successful change.

Enabling Change Case Studies

A collection of case studies on managing change collected from members of the APM, the Enabling Change volunteers and others who have chosen to share their stories. 

Common Vocabulary

The “Change Capabilities and Methods Pillar” within the Enabling Change volunteer team has developed a common vocabulary for Change related terms to help everyone share the same definitions.

Change methodologies library

A collection and summary of the various Change Management Methodologies in use across our industry. The newly developed library includes explanation of the content, origins, uses and the unique elements of each.

Resources archive

Fearless change - Bringing your people with you on the journey: Conference learning legacy package

This joint conference tackled the complex problems of how people respond to change.

Empathy map

A stakeholder analysis tool to help project professionals understand a stakeholder in more detail and this could include identifying the thoughts, feeling, behaviours, needs, actions, expectations and desires of the stakeholder. 

Featured book

Introduction to Managing Change

APM’s Introduction to Managing Change has been published and is available to order. The book discusses the importance of managing change effectively in order to successfully deliver and realise the benefits of projects, programmes and portfolios.

Introduction to Managing Change is ideally suited to project professionals undertaking change programmes and projects, or those directing or sponsoring change.

Podcast series - Change Management in Project Management

Interview with Mark Vincent 🕑 28 mins

Interview with Jessica Leonard đź•‘ 8 mins

Interview with Michael Ogbeta đź•‘ 6 mins

Interview with Freddie Stephenson đź•‘ 10 mins

Interview with Paige Vitai đź•‘ 12 mins

We’d like you to contribute; have a listen, and to share your ideas and comments, please get in touch.

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APM Enabling Change IN podcast series, interview with Mark Vincent
Have you ever considered what change resistance really is and where it comes from? Are there different types of resistance and are they all equal? What could you do to make resistance far less likely in your project?
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APM Enabling Change IN podcast series, interview with Jessica Leonard
Talks about how change management can help a project achieves its intended results and outcomes.
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APM Enabling Change IN podcast series, interview with Michael Ogbeta
Talks about how he utilises change management strategies and techniques to elevate his project management.
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Data, ethics and humans – solving the strategic misrepresentation bias in projects webinar
Shares learning on strategic misrepresentation. The content covered; 1.Conceptualise project success problems; 2.Understand strategic misrepresentation; 3.Learn about the behavioural drivers of strategic misrepresentation.
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Making communications land – Are they received and understood as intended? webinar
Ensuring that what we have communicated was received and understood as we intended and how do we course correct if it has not.
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APM Enabling Change SIG podcast series, interview with Freddie Stephenson
A talk about how change management is one of the most fundamental skills for any project manager to have, and the importance of consciously thinking about and honing these skills.

Blogs

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Movies, empathy and project success
Think back to the last time you watched a scary movie. There may have been tense pauses, dramatic music, mobiles running out of battery and groups splitting up. As the plot evolved, you likely became invested in the action on screen and felt anxious, scared and worried (even though there was no danger to yourself). Did you notice how the emotion expressed by the fictional characters influenced your own feelings?
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Why change management is about more than stakeholder engagement
Project managers often confuse change management for stakeholder engagement and communications. This blog spells out the main difference: change management prepares your business for disruption, while stakeholder engagement informs and engages stakeholders about project outputs.  
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How to build team collaboration and become a project leader everyone loves
In his talk, business agility expert Glenn Smith highlights opportunities and activities to build collaboration between those leading the change and those delivering or experiencing it.
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How to make great decisions and be a successful project manager
Matt Lawrence shares insights on how project professionals can use principles from neuroscience to transform themselves into more effective project managers.
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Branding your projects for greater success
Matt applies concepts from branding and marketing to project management and explores the parallels between effective brands and successful stakeholder engagement.
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How to stay motivated during a project: recognise temporal landmarks
Staying motivated during a project can seem tricky, but recognising and celebrating time-bound achievements can boost positivity and productivity.