Managing change

A curated suite of resources, inspiration and ideas to help manage change effectively.

You can use these resources to plan your responses to the following Pulse Survey questions:

  • Change is handled well in my organisational unit
  • I am consulted before decisions that affect me are made.

Change at UQ - Online learning

Change is constant at UQ, with a variety of projects and initiatives looking to provide continuous improvement to staff and student experiences.  

Now, you can learn a variety of skills to create, manage, and reinforce effective change through UQ. The Change at UQ program covers key skills for change management, designed to be stacked and completed to suit your needs and project. There are a number of learning pathways through the course suggested, whether you wish to be a change manager, support or lead change in your area, or lead strategic change.

This program is about making change possible anytime, anywhere. 

How to guides

Leading organisational change at UQ

Read more about considerations when leading organisational change

Change Toolkit

The Change Toolkit includes a comprehensive set of checklists and plans that can help UQ Leaders to manage change.

Before using the toolkit it is recommended that leaders complete the relevant online module from the Change at UQ program.

The Toolkit is outlined in order of activity.

  1. Change scope checklist (docx)
  2. Change characteristics (docx)
  3. Organisational attributes (docx)
  4. Stakeholder change impact assessment (xlsx)
  5. Primary sponsor assessment (docx)
  6. Change management strategy template (docx)
  7. ADKAR assessment worksheet (docx)
  8. Essential change plan (pptx)
  9. Primary sponsor plan template (docx)
  10. Communications plan template (dotx)
  11. Resistance management plan template (docx)
  12. Training needs analysis template (docx)
  13. Change readiness survey (docx)
  14. Corrective action plan (docx)
  15. Embedding change checklist (docx)

Other helpful resources

Leading Change as a Senior Responsible Owner (or Project Sponsor)

This LinkedIn Learning module explores change management strategies to successfully deliver transformational change