Team learning and how it can contribute to a team functioning in alignment

Team learning and how it can contribute to a team functioning in alignment

Prepare a 2-3 page report that explains the stakeholder analysis, illustrates a change diagram or model, analyzes the organization culture and climate for change, and assesses the organization’s readiness for change.

Introduction

Team learning and how it can contribute to a team functioning in alignment and as a whole enterprise is a key concept in change management. Team learning helps a team sustain and reinforce its learning and increases the capacity to act synergistically and master how to learn.

Learning teams must understand how to skillfully dialogue, increasing their ability to problem solve, create new knowledge, deliberate, and build relationships with other teams and customers. Learning teams develop ground rules for truth-telling, time usage, decision-making processes, and domains, and to create a safe conversational environment that allows a team to take risks, make mistakes, forgive, and recover.

Overview

The purpose of this assessment is to conduct discovery to understand the stakeholders and the organization and identify themes from your discovery activities. You will utilize methodologies from your selected change model to complete discovery.

Preparation

Because this assessment is dependent on the information you gather through stakeholder analysis and examination of artifacts, you should schedule time with your contact person at the client organization. Explain the activities and tasks with which you will be engaging and make the necessary arrangements. You may wish to refer to these readings to help you with this assessment:

• Rothwell, W. J., Stavros, J. M., & Sullivan, R. L. (Eds.). (2015). Practicing organization development: Leading transformation and change (4th ed.). Wiley.
  • See Figure 18.1 in Chapter 18.
• McCalman, J., Paton, R. A., & Siebert, S. (2016). Change management: A guide to effective implementation (4th ed.). Sage. Available in the courseroom via the VitalSource Bookshelf link.
  • Page 112.

Instructions

Complete the following for your stakeholder analysis and findings report. Support your writing with information from your course readings and other research you\’ve conducted.

• Conduct a stakeholder analysis.
  • Use the analysis approach of your selected model and conduct a stakeholder analysis to assess the change impacts.
  • Describe the methods you used and what you observed from your stakeholder analysis.
  • Analyze 3-5 stakeholders.
• Create a change diagram or model of the inputs and outputs needed to reach the targeted change state.
  • Align the inputs and outputs to your stakeholder analysis.
  • Refer to systems thinking research to help illustrate the big picture and interactions within.
• Analyze the organization’s culture and climate for change.
  • Describe the organization’s corporate culture such as the leadership structure, organizational structure, and internal systems. In other words, what are the goals, roles, procedures, and relationships? Consider the different roles and responsibilities.
  • Summarize the mission and vision of the organization and how they tie in with the organization\’s business practices or the way they operate.
  • Include stories about the organization that support or conflict with the organization\’s stated values, beliefs, et cetera.
• Assess the organization’s readiness for change.
  • Summarize the stakeholder analysis and organization culture.
  • Discuss the themes you found from the analysis.
  • Use the models/components you selected and frame the organization\’s readiness for change.

Additional Requirements

Your submission should meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Write in complete sentences free from errors that detract from the overall message. Communicate in an exemplary and professional manner through clear, concise, well-organized, and grammatically correct writing.
• Font: Arial, 12 point.
• Page length: 2-3 pages.
• Citations: Include complete citations of your sources. Review Evidence and APA for more information on how to cite your sources.

Review the assessment scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be graded.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 2: Assess change management principles and their use cases for achieving desired results.
  • Analyze the organization’s culture and climate for change.
• Competency 3: Apply change management interventions.
  • Conduct stakeholder analysis.
  • Create a change diagram or model of the inputs and outputs needed to reach the targeted change state.
• Competency 4: Evaluate the efficacy of change management interventions.
  • Assess the organization’s readiness for change.
• Competency 5: Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing.
  • Write in a well-organized and concise manner that adheres to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.