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Digital Workplace & Collaboration

Change management services
for Google Workspace.
Drive adoption and turn your teams into power users.

Technology adoption succeeds only when people are supported. Suitebriar delivers structured change programs grounded in communication, training, executive readiness, and workflow-centric coaching.

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What do change management services cover?

Change management services for Google Workspace cover the work around the technology: telling people what changes and when, training them on the apps they will use, recruiting champions in each team, and tracking adoption until the new way of working sticks.

Google's own rollout guidance pairs a pilot team with a change management plan and a network of Google Guides: colleagues in each department who try Workspace first and help the people around them. After go-live, the Admin console shows weekly active users for Gmail, Drive, Meet and Calendar, so you can see which groups have moved and which are still working the old way.

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What the program includes

Pre-launch awareness & communications

What changes, when, and what each person needs to do, sent before their group moves. For RE/MAX of Reading that meant communication templates and the start of a Google Help Site.

Executive and champion enablement

A sponsor who explains why the change is happening, and champions from every department and location who help colleagues day to day. Champions don't need to be technical.

Live and on-demand Workspace training

On-site programs, admin training, workshops, and materials your team can share. The course bundles are on the Google Workspace Training page.

Power-user uplift programs

Advanced training on email management, collaboration, Chrome and the Docs editors, for the people colleagues already go to for help.

Ongoing adoption tracking and reinforcement

Weekly active users per app and per-person activity from the Admin console, and Gemini use by team, so follow-up goes where it's needed.

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How American Samoa Government brought its departments onto one Workspace

American Samoa Government ran on old IMAP servers and separate Google Workspace tenants for different departments. Suitebriar ran a change management workstream across the three-phase project, offered 11 training courses on the core apps for all users, and traveled to American Samoa for in-person training and on-site go-live support. Most staff already used personal Gmail, so training focused on the collaboration tools.

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11training courses across the core apps, for all users
3 + 8on-site and remote training sessions

From other change programs

“Suitebriar was very helpful in aiding in the transition with all the communications and training. They helped drive our project progression to ensure we met our timeline. They took really great care of us and continue to provide quick and thoughtful solutions to any technical questions we may have.”
Tom DunawayVP of Information Technology and Administration, KLINGSPOR Abrasives USA
“next to no support calls immediately after the migration”
Ken ShafferIT Project Lead, Hamilton Healthcare Systems

How a change program runs

  1. Plan with your IT teamA Suitebriar Change Manager works with your IT team on the strategy: who is affected, which groups move when, and who sponsors the change.
  2. Recruit sponsors and championsAn executive explains why the change is happening. Champions from each department and location try Workspace first, as the pilot group, so every team has someone nearby to ask.
  3. Communicate and train, group by groupEach group hears what is changing before it moves and is trained on the apps it uses. A review after each group shapes the next.
  4. Track adoption and reinforceAdmin console reports show which groups have moved and which haven't. Reinforcement, such as follow-up training, goes to the groups that lag.
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Adoption signals worth watching

All from the Admin console's reports, which need the Reports administrator privilege. Read them per group, not company-wide: an average hides the office that never switched.

SignalWhere you see itWhat it usually means
Gmail IMAP use is recent, web use is oldUser reports, Apps usageThe person still reads mail in a desktop or phone mail app, such as Outlook
Weekly active Drive users flat after go-liveReporting overview, adoption panelFiles still live on old shares or travel as attachments
Few Chat spaces created in 28 daysUser reports, Apps usageTeam conversations are still in email or another chat tool
Gemini licenses assigned, few active usersGemini reports, org-level usageLicenses have run ahead of training; filter by group to see which teams
A customer's lesson
“Although Google Workspace is easy to use, transitioning productivity platforms is still a change, and change needs to be managed”
Michel Lemieux, Director of IT, JLD-Laguë · Read the story

Change management FAQ

What IT and HR leads ask before a Workspace or Gemini rollout.

Planning a migration or a Gemini rollout?

Send us the rollout date and the teams involved, and we'll talk through what the program would cover.

Is change management part of a migration, or separate?

It's recommended alongside one. Every Suitebriar migration team includes a Change Manager, and Suitebriar recommends adding change management to the migration roadmap: the communications, champion network, training and adoption tracking described on this page.

How do we know it's working?

Watch weekly active users for each group after it moves, not one company-wide number. The table above lists the signals worth checking and where each one lives in the Admin console.

What do you need from our side?

An executive sponsor, an IT lead to plan with, and a champion in each department and location. Google's advice is that champions are chosen for credibility with colleagues and a willingness to help, not technical skill, and since they often volunteer alongside their day job, recognize the time they give.

What if adoption stalls after go-live?

Treat it as a training gap, not a tool problem. JLD-Laguë first ran its move as an email migration and adoption dipped; after its IT team ran 90-minute on-site sessions at each location, with videos and documentation, adoption went faster than expected and the company rethought its plan to keep legacy licenses.

Does this apply to Gemini?

Yes. Gemini's adoption problem is licenses assigned and little use. Gemini reports show active users against eligible licenses by organizational unit, group and app, so training can go to the teams that aren't using it, and Google recommends the same champion model for Gemini that it does for Workspace.

How long does a change program run?

It runs alongside the migration, group by group, and continues after go-live while adoption is tracked.

Plan the people side of your rollout

Tell us what's changing, how many people it affects and where they work.

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