Season 5 - Episode 42 - Is you change impact assessment missing the bigger picture?

You've completed your change impact assessment. You've identified the teams affected, rated the impacts as high, medium or low, and created your heat map.

But have you really understood what it will take for those teams to successfully adopt the change?

In this episode of Next Level Change Success, Therese explores three common mistakes that can undermine your change impact assessment and leave your change management plan falling short.

Discover why high-level impact ratings don't always tell the full story, how comparing impacts across teams can help you prioritise your efforts, and why understanding the distance between current and future ways of working is essential.

You'll also learn why leadership capability matters, how to avoid analysis paralysis, and why assessing change through the lens of teams rather than technical processes can lead to better engagement and more effective change adoption.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why high, medium and low impact ratings aren't enough.

• How to compare change impacts across different teams.

• Why future-state readiness influences your change effort.

• How to turn impact assessments into practical, people-focused change plans.

Whether you're a project manager, business analyst, change practitioner or leader, this episode will help you make smarter decisions about where to focus your change management efforts.

Because your change impact assessment isn't just another project document. It's the engine that drives your change plan.

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Change matters. People matter. Purpose matters.