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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.
Recommending intervention strategies change management theory
Recommending intervention strategies change management theory
Prepare a 5-8 page recommendation for intervention and adoption strategies, including metrics to track adoption.
Introduction
Systems thinking points out cycles of cause and effect. A paradox with systems thinking is that it is frequently counterintuitive. An example is the more you strive, the more you undermine your chances. Learning teams can use systems thinking as a problem-solving tool, but it has the most effect on how teams think about complex issues. It is important for you to become familiar with causal loop diagram archetypes, which allow us to talk about the interrelationship and feedback process and help diagnose systems that produce growth, decline, or equilibrium. By learning about systems thinking, teams can align their common understanding and collaborate to establish strategies for their business dilemmas.
Overview
The purpose of this assessment is to make recommendations for your client organization on their change management strategy. Your recommendation should include intervention strategies, an explanation of how to reinforce the change, and the metrics that will be used to track adoption. Remember that your CM Strategy: Recommendations for Intervention and Adoption Strategies should be complete and comprehensive so that after you leave, the client organization would know how to execute on the strategy.
Preparation
Review your previous assessments and the resources you have explored to help you make recommendations for your client organization. Your recommendations should result from collaboration and output from working with your client. Make sure you have solicited their input and feedback and incorporated them in your final recommendations.
Instructions
Prepare a report that addresses the items below. Make sure you support your writing using information from your readings and research.
- Recommend intervention strategies that align with the findings and stakeholder analysis.
- Include intervention strategies that connect with the themes and issues from the discovery findings.
- Explain how and why the intervention strategies will support the change. Include relevant information from your readings and research to show that the intervention is appropriate in managing the change.
- Recommend reinforcement strategies to support adoption and behavior change.
- Reinforcement strategies to support the adoption should be aligned to the interventions and the desired new behavior.
- Explain how the reinforcement strategies are the appropriate ones to support the change.
- Recommend metrics to track the adoption of the change.
- Identify metrics that will indicate whether the intervention strategies are working or not. For example, if your project was about implementing a diversity and inclusion program, a metric could be the number of employees attending \”Lunch and Learn\” events, or the number of people completing a diversity and inclusion online learning course.
- Explain how you would collect the data to gain insight into the adoption of the desired behavior 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: 5-8 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 3: Apply change management interventions.
- Recommend reinforcement strategies to support adoption and behavior change.
- Recommend metrics to track adoption of the change.
- Competency 4: Evaluate the efficacy of change management interventions.
- Recommend intervention strategies that align with the findings and stakeholder analysis.
- 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.
Traditional organization development theory and systems thinking
Traditional organization development theory and systems thinking
Prepare a presentation of 8-10 slides, not including the title slide and reference slide, that explains the change management strategy you are recommending.
Introduction
Effective change leaders are familiar with traditional organization development theory and systems thinking currently being used in large group settings. The idea that a community needs to become dissatisfied with its current state, visualize a preferred future, and initiate first steps to overcome the resistance to change is a powerful moving force.
Overview
In this assessment, you will create a presentation that captures the main points from the stakeholder analysis, findings, recommendations, and adoption strategies. Your presentation should be designed with appropriate visuals and text on slides that could be delivered to a live audience. Potentially your presentation, or an adaptation thereof, could be used in a live presentation in a context outside this course, where a talk on change management principles would be useful.
Preparations
- Review your assessments and feedback you received.
- Review Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX] to help you create a professional presentation.
Instructions
Use a presentation tool of your choice, such as PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi, et cetera, to complete the following:
- Create a presentation that highlights the change management strategy.
- Include stakeholder analysis, findings, recommendations, and adoption strategies.
- Structure the presentation in an easy-to-understand sequence.
- Include detailed speaker\’s notes of what you will say when you deliver the presentation to your client.
- Create a presentation that is professional and appropriate for the targeted audience.
- Ensure the presentation uses appropriate visuals and follows presentation best practices.
Additional Requirements
- Document format: Include title and reference slides. Also include detailed speaker\’s notes.
- References: Include complete APA citations of any sources you use. Review Evidence and APA for more information on how to cite your sources.
- Length: 8-10 slides, not including the title slide and reference slide.
- Font and spacing: Use font size and type appropriate for a business audience.
- Writing: Writing should be well organized and clear, with correct spelling and grammar.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 4: Evaluate the efficacy of change management interventions.
- Create a presentation that highlights the change management strategy.
- Create a presentation that is professional and appropriate for the targeted audience.
- 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.