--- title: Change Management Planning | Resources and Tools | Results description: Lead organisational change with ease. Take advantage of our resources, examples, and free change management plan templates. 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Common reasons for failure include lack of planning, insufficient alignment with corporate goals, employee resistance, and change fatigue. But without change, companies miss opportunities and risk becoming obsolete. With the right skills and processes, leaders can flip this script. A well-thought-through change management plan starts with understanding the nature of change. It uses a process for planning and implementing change projects. This, in turn, drastically improve the chances of success. In companies, change management is less about technologies, tools, assets, and resources. Rather, it’s more about people - we must consider the human side of change management. Evolution has wired human beings to seek safety, minimize risks and stay in stable situations. Therefore, to implement organizational change, leaders must acknowledge and validate these tendencies. Then they can work to guide their people through the distinct phases that every change project must go through. In this series of articles, we cover how to: - Avoid the most common pitfalls in organizational change. - Understand and scale change projects in your firm. - Overcome psychological resistance to change. - Implement a 5-Step change process. - Create a Change Management Plan - Ensure organizational learning so that over time your company becomes more nimble, adaptable, and skilled at change. Throughout this series, we will also provide resources, examples and change management plan templates to help you and your organisation through any change, small or large. These articles will be published from June to November 2023. 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Leadership builds the case, communicates the plan,... ![Tim O'Connor](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/912278597882c6a76d74e56d9e7c4f56-Nov-03-2021-12-15-20-42-AM.png) Tim O'Connor July, 20 2026 [![](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Team%20Process.jpg)](https://blog.unleashresults.com/guiding-change-management-for-organizations) - [Change Management](https://blog.unleashresults.com/tag/change-management) ### Guiding Change Management for Organizations Just because we’ve carefully planned and communicated our change project doesn’t mean it will... ![Tim O'Connor](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/912278597882c6a76d74e56d9e7c4f56-Nov-03-2021-12-15-20-42-AM.png) Tim O'Connor October, 10 2023 [![](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Change%20management.jpg)](https://blog.unleashresults.com/4-principles-to-motivate-people-to-change) - [Change Management](https://blog.unleashresults.com/tag/change-management) ### 4 Principles to Motivate People to Change If organizations don’t change, they die. It’s estimated that 70% of change projects fail in... ![Tim O'Connor](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/912278597882c6a76d74e56d9e7c4f56-Nov-03-2021-12-15-20-42-AM.png) Tim O'Connor September, 19 2023 [![](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Decoding.jpg)](https://blog.unleashresults.com/decoding-organizational-change) - [Change Management](https://blog.unleashresults.com/tag/change-management) ### Decoding Organizational Change Too often change projects fall short, and that results in disengagement and poor performance. By... ![Tim O'Connor](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/912278597882c6a76d74e56d9e7c4f56-Nov-03-2021-12-15-20-42-AM.png) Tim O'Connor August, 25 2023 [![](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Leading%20Change%20Image.jpg)](https://blog.unleashresults.com/leading-change-models-planning-the-journey) - [Change Management](https://blog.unleashresults.com/tag/change-management) ### Leading Change Model: Planning the Journey Without change, our organizations at best miss opportunities, and at worse become obsolete.... ![Tim O'Connor](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/912278597882c6a76d74e56d9e7c4f56-Nov-03-2021-12-15-20-42-AM.png) Tim O'Connor August, 23 2023 [![](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Change%20Template%20SM-1.png)](https://blog.unleashresults.com/change-management-plan-templates) - [Change Management](https://blog.unleashresults.com/tag/change-management) ### Change Management Plan Templates Change is the only constant, both in life and in business. Results Business Consultants have... ![Tim O'Connor](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/912278597882c6a76d74e56d9e7c4f56-Nov-03-2021-12-15-20-42-AM.png) Tim O'Connor August, 11 2023 [![](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Mitigating%20change.jpg)](https://blog.unleashresults.com/mitigating-resistance-to-change-in-an-organization-the-psychology-of-change) - [Change Management](https://blog.unleashresults.com/tag/change-management) ### How to Overcome Resistance to Change in Organizations We sometimes assume if we build it, they will come. Then we encounter unexpected resistance to... ![Tim O'Connor](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/912278597882c6a76d74e56d9e7c4f56-Nov-03-2021-12-15-20-42-AM.png) Tim O'Connor July, 27 2023 [![](https://blog.unleashresults.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pexels-photo-1028451.jpeg)](https://blog.unleashresults.com/navigating-the-change-valley) - [Change Management](https://blog.unleashresults.com/tag/change-management) ### Change Management Leadership: Leading Through the Change Valley This article was originally published March 25, 2020. It was updated in June 2023. 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