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Successful Organizational Change.

This section contains resources related to successful organizational change. To access a resource, click on its title. Resources are categorized by the following topics, please click on the topic or scroll down for more information:
  • Leadership and Change Management
  • Importance of Engagement in Change Management
  • ​Using Management Tools to Grow Your Business
  • ​Project Management

Leadership and Change Management


​Leadership and Change Management for Community-Based Organizations

Expand Your Vision and Grow Your Mission! Driving Culture Change in Aging and Disability CBOs Looking to Work with Health Care Partners​

​This presentation provides tangible strategies for leading an organization through change, focusing on understanding models for change, describing the role leadership plays during change, and identifying strategies for communicating change. 

Change Management Requires Leadership Clarity and Alignment 

This article details that role of leadership in change management.
This webinar describes two community-based organizations' challenges and strategies around preparing and persuading staff, thinking about services, costs, and administration in new ways, understanding infrastructure needs, working with new partners, and more.

Change Management

This resource includes a collection of articles from The Harvard Business Review on leadership and management. 

Importance of Engagement in Change Management

Conducting Community Forums: Engaging Stakeholders, Mobilizing Communities

This resource talks about how to plan and hold effective community forums to gain insight into the needs of people with disabilities.

Using Management Tools to Grow Your Business

The Tools and Techniques of Change Management 

Selecting the Best Theory to Implement Planned Change 

This article describes a classification framework that features eight questions that could be asked of a change management tool/technique in order to inform understanding about its utilization.


​Business Acumen: Workflow Design 

​This presentation discusses work flow design and an 8 step process to product development. The presentation focuses on the business analysis step. 
This article discusses how understanding and using a change theory framework can help managers or other change agents increase the likelihood of success. The article considers three change theories and discusses how one in particular can be used in practice.

Defining and Using Aims and Drivers for Improvement: A How-to Guide

​While there are many ways to depict a theory of change, this resource discusses one type of model, called a “driver diagram”, that is particularly useful for working toward a specific aim.

Project Management

Strategies to Strengthen Organizational Culture to Drive Performance

The Process of Project Management 

This webinar focuses on approaches to CBO business and strategic planning, using quality improvement strategies including LEAN/Six Sigma and others. It also contains tips on process management.
​This resource discusses the integrative nature of project management, and to emphasize the importance of integration, describes project management in terms of its component processes.
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