Change Manager vs Project Manager: What's the Difference?

foreign manager's role different from that of a project manager well in this video we're going to go ahead and find out just that my name is Josh Factor I'm the founder of HR University and we're going to go ahead and look at a detailed comparison between the change managers and project managers role job descriptions we'll Delta dive into the responsibilities about these roles compare their Scopes and find out what skills and duties really set these two apart let's go ahead and jump in so today businesses must adapt to the ever-changing market landscape and customer demands they're all the change managers to help an organization transition from its current state to its desired future State and they do this by Leading and coordinating change initiatives within the organization and change managers Define the roles and duties of all the employees involved in a change process and besides developing a change project they recognize a project scope difficulties and goals they also Monitor and keep track of the change implementation of Project's budget and they assist employees and develop training programs for them and then later monitor these training programs to ensure employees effectively adapt to changes and stick to their duties moreover as they continue to supervise and keep an eye on business changes Devolution of Business Technologies and the effects of changes on the external environment and by keeping track of these processes and Technologies this has the effect of changes on the overall business operations and change management is a structured approach to help organizations deal with technological cultural or structural Transformations and to ensure that everyone is aware of the changes and is on the same page change managers communicate the change management plans with business stakeholders to get their insides and thoughts and after developing and finalizing the change plan they train the workforce to prepare them for the plan implementation and later when the program implementation starts they manage assist and lead the team to Monitor and track the program's progress and change managers keep an eye on the potential risks that arise during the change plan implementation and last but not least here they collect and analyze the metrics to evaluate the outcome of the change now let's go ahead and take a look to better understand the responsibilities of a project manager project management is a process of planning executing and monitoring a project to achieve Revenue focused goals a project manager leads a project initiative from start to finish they plan the whole project keeping in view the tasks time frames and Company goals and they develop a project schedule and ensure on-time completion and project managers also assign work to respective teams to accomplish the Milestones within the project and they regularly monitor the progress to supervise team performance and goal accomplishments over the identify and assess any risks related to the project that could impact the business continuation and then they take necessary steps to mitigate those risks and as they manage and monitor the progress they communicate the work done efforts and risks and hurdles with the organization's stakeholders the project management department is the most important sector of any organization that ensures that the organization follows its track completes its goals and serves ultimately Quality Service product or an experience to its customers investors and can consumers and project managers report the progress to respective project heads so that they're aware of what's happening in real time when it comes to expense tackling they must ensure everything goes according to the budget and to accomplish all these duties without digital tools and just with mail efforts becomes challenging that is why they use project management tools and software to handle the teams and work progress for efficient tasking now let's go ahead and find out how these two roles communicate and work together the change manager and project manager work side by side to develop fundamental plans for bringing positive change in the work environment they collaborate to create plans to improve the performance of an organization and change managers contribute to the table by assessing the risks and impact of changes meanwhile the project managers ensure that the plans comply with the organization's infrastructure and are executed efficiently and change management professionals monitor the progress of the tasks and make necessary changes and both them follow a collaborative work approach to proactively pinpoint the obstacles and implementing change is any project and address them accordingly an integrating project management and change management provides information to stakeholders and employees about ongoing changes in this way they ensure that everyone is on the same page and works together towards a common goal which in turn enables an organization to achieve its desired results despite the collaborative work roles of change managers and project managers they have some major differences regarding their work focus and job scope skills scaling factors and different phases involved in their work Journeys now let's go ahead and dive in and explore to better understand these key differences between change managers and project managers so job focus is one of the major distinguishing factors between change management and project management change managers focus on company-wide Transformations and changes they work with stakeholders to assess the Need For Change develop plans to implement transformation and monitor the progress of changes however they create strategic plans for the effective implementation of those changes throughout the organization and on the other hand project managers focus on specific projects they develop project plans and schedules to Target objectives and project managers assign tasks to team members and monitor their progress and Milestones and the scope of their work is limited only to the project that they're working on and once they complete the project they move on to the next one and while a scope of change managers is spread company-wide to ensure the overall business continuity and effective running of the organization this is how the main focus and scope of these two roles differ change managers and project managers have a few common skills like leadership problem solving communication and these common skills enable them to communicate collaborate and manage changes in projects efficiently resize these common skills both these roles must exhibit a few unique skills as well change managers must exhibit a deep understanding of organizational Dynamics they must know how to assess the need for Change and develop plans to implement those changes and this requires excellent implementation and Leadership skills and change managers saw possible issues that arise and manage employee resistance and this demands excellent problem solving and conflict resolution skills change managers must also exhibit emotional management skills as their responsibilities include managing the emotional aspects of change and project managers hold excellent planning and scheduling skills they develop strategic plans then entail the necessary steps to complete the projects on time and within budget thus this requires excellent strategic skills and project managers coach lead and manage teammates and assign them tasks and monitor the Project's progress and they must exhibit excellent decision making skills since they monitor the progress of the project and take corrective action when necessary however they must hold technical skills and experience in the project domain and the scaling factor distinguishes between change management and project management roles change management involves dealing with fluctuating circumstances one scaling factor for change managers is the extent of change and this means that to what extent do they need to transform and scale the business another scaling factor is the pace of change this means that at what pace the change must be implemented so that everyone can digest it and stay equally productive as they were before and the last scaling factor is to analyze how many people will be affected by the change and thus change managers develop the plans based on these parameters and project managers are involved in working with tangible deliverables and there are three major scaling factors for project management roles so the first one is to understand the size of the project and considering the size they plan the pace what the which team should work the next scaling factor is to understand the level of the technical complexity of the project and this way they know if the teams need additional training to accomplish the complicated tasks and then they take any precautionary measures and the third factor is a duration of the project as they develop the project plan based on the time required to accomplish the tasks and the next major difference between change managers and project managers is the work phases involved change managers deal with three different workfaces is their first work phase to prepare the organization's environment employees and workflows for the change and the second work phase is to manage the change implementation and ensure that everything goes as planned and the last major phase is reinforcing a change this means that effort they must make to support sustain and maintain the implemented changes now on the other side project managers deal with totally different work phases their first work phase is to plan the project keeping in view the requirements goals and needs next is to initiate the project to anticipate the operations in the phases further followed by actual project execution and as that execution occurs their focus changes from executing to monitoring and controlling the project according to the plan and in the last phase they wrap up the project and ensure that all project objectives are met with anticipated efficiency and these phases resolve through their career project by project and now you can better understand what these roles primarily focus on it's important to know that both these roles are very crucial to take the employees and organization towards success and to keep the success that it already has and there we have it that marks the end of this lesson here and if you feel like you have a better understanding of the difference between a change manager and a project manager make sure to go ahead and like this video And subscribe to our channel that way you don't miss any of our future lessons on how to become a great management professional and again my name is Josh I'm the founder of HR University and I'll go ahead and see you in some of our other videos and lessons cheers foreign