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SERVICE
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DESCRIPTION
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RECOMMENDED FOR
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Provides leadership, guidance, and delivery of project objectives from concept to completion.
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- Works with project leadership to ensure successful project initiation, planning, execution, and closeout
- Clarifies expectations within a charter, create clear roadmaps and timelines, and engage the team to drive progress
- Measure successes and support a seamless transition to operational activities
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- Mission-critical, system-wide, visible initiatives
- Long (>12 months) or short-term (<12 months) initiatives
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COMMUNICATIONS
- Provides expertise to create and implement a communication plan for all audiences impacted by a project
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- Explains change to GCU audiences to reduce anxiety and help them understand the impact
- Creates a method for achieving objectives with a detailed communication plan
- Works closely with GCU’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications for ideas and implementation
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- Launch of a new system, policy, process, or structure that require effective communication to be successful
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- PMO considers change management activities into each project
- Is available as a separate, dedicated resource for projects involving transformational change, i.e., a fundamental shift of culture, behavior, or mindsets
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- Helps the project lead assess readiness for impending changes, develop strategy, and deploy tactics to reduce resistance and support adoption of the project’s end result
- Change manager and communications lead identify and implement the most appropriate tactics to fit the needs of the project
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- Large impact projects involving transformational change
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PROJECT PRE-PLANNING
- Provides support to define a project’s scope and plan or develop recommendations for execution
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- Assists a project lead with risk assessment, outcome analysis, review of existing processes, rough timeline definitions, or development of an executable recommendation to use when the initiative becomes a project
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- If your staff needs help assessing requirements or developing a project plan
- Need to fill skillset gaps or supplement available resources
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PROJECT COORDINATION
- Supports a functional lead by overseeing organizational tasks for a project
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- Helps the functional lead to develop a timeline, create schedules, and oversee progress to make sure goals are met on time
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- If your staff needs help keeping a project on task and on time
- Need to fill skill set gaps or supplement available resources
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