An ever increasing challenge within the project and change environment is maintaining leadership alignment and effective communication with there being gravitation towards an owner-manager culture within organisations. This leadership and management culture, that regardless of your role or portfolio, you are fully empowered to deal with your day to day responsibilities, certainly offers many benefits […]
Participants in the Prosci’s benchmarking study “Best Practices in Change Management – 2016 Edition”, identified active and visible executive sponsors as the key contributors to the success of their change initiatives. When asked to identify the biggest obstacle to success, participants in the same study identified a lack of effective change sponsorship from senior leaders as their […]
What is the importance of an active sponsor? That is the question that many seem to be asking. It is hard to have sponsor’s realise how important their role is to a project and the difference they make to the successful roll-out of the project. Let’s first start off with what is a project sponsor: […]
The role of executive sponsorship in driving successful change is a topic that is certain to come up during any change initiative regardless of the size of the organisation, magnitude of the change or industry in which the project is being implemented. The importance of the executive sponsorship remains at the forefront of every change […]
When I started my career in Change Management a few years ago, I remember my mentor repeatedly highlighting how critical it was to have our Project Sponsor onboard as it could make or break the project. As a young individual with little business acumen and change management experience, I felt terribly ill-equipped to even glance […]
