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CM Strategy: Stakeholder Analysis and Findings

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:

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.

CM Strategy: Project Approach and Plan

Prepare a 3-5 page project approach and plan that explains the purpose and discipline of change management and the characteristics of a learning organization, defines the goals and objectives, and describes the selected model to be used for the project.

Introduction

Individual and organizational frames of reference, also known as mental models, are the assumptions and beliefs embedded in our language that determine what we see and how we explain how things work. Although in our speech mental models may be unconscious, they influence decision and action. It is important to examine methods for reflection and inquiry that help bring mental models to the surface. A team can then examine and choose its language in order to operate in a more open and integrated way.

Change leaders must also understand the dynamics of change and develop strategies for building shared vision as a conduit for shared meaning and to develop facilitation skills. Creating shared meaning and supporting the relationship between employee engagement and enterprise sustainability allows people to believe they are part of a common entity, that they are participating in a community, and that they have the power to determine their destinies. By creating a shared vision, they decide what is important and why. By clarifying, they propel themselves into the future of the image they hold.

Overview

The purpose of this assessment is to prepare your plan on how you will work with your client organization and the approach you will use to inform them about the change management strategy. This assessment gives you an opportunity to organize your notes from your conversations with the client organization (and feedback on your project proposal) into a document that clearly explains to the client what they are to expect from you as their change management consultant. The primary audience for your CM Strategy: Project Approach and Plan assessment is your sponsors and your key contact.

Instructions

Prepare a detailed project approach and plan that explains the change management goals and objectives, approach, and tools you will use, and how you will complete the work. Your assessment should have the following sections. Make sure you support your writing using information from any resources you have reviewed and research you have conducted.

  • Change Management Purpose and Discipline.
    • Explain the purpose and discipline of change management and the characteristics of a learning organization.
      • Establish the value of change management in organizations.
      • Provide examples of other organizations that have used change management.
      • Describe what an organization that doesn’t embody characteristics of a learning organization looks like.
      • Describe what a learning organization looks like.
      • Explain the changes that an organization must undergo to evolve into a learning organization.
  • Project Goals and Objectives.
    • Define the change management goals and objectives of the project.
      • Explain the goals you want to help your client organization achieve through this project.
      • Align your goals and objectives with characteristics of learning organizations.
  • Selected Change Management Model and Tools.
    • Describe the selected model to be used for the change management project.
      • Summarize the following change management models:
        • Organization Development Effectiveness Model.
        • Appreciative Inquiry Model.
        • Action Research Model.
        • Senge Five Discipline Model.
      • Select the model, or combination thereof, that you will use to complete your project, and explain why you chose this particular model.
    • Describe the change management tools you will use to assess your stakeholders and the organization’s culture and environment.
      • Identify ways you will gather information about the organization’s culture and environment.
  • Project Plan.
    • Outline a plan that conveys how the work will be completed.
      • Build upon the initial timeline you provided in your Project Proposal and update it with meetings that you have scheduled and project deliverables you will be preparing for the client organization.

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: 3-5 pages.
  • Citations: Include complete citations for 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 1: Analyze key change management principles.
    • Explain the purpose and discipline of change management.
    • Outline a plan that conveys how the work will be completed.
  • Competency 2: Assess change management principles and their use cases for achieving desired results.
    • Describe the characteristics of a learning organization.
    • Define the change management goals and objectives of the project.
    • Describe the approach to be used for the change project.
  • 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.

CM Strategy: Project Proposal

Prepare a 1-2 page project proposal that provides the background on your selected client organization, a summary of the project, and a project timeline.

Introduction

Familiarity with the basic concepts of change management and the learning organization, and developing an awareness of your own individual values and vision, is important to your growth as a change agent and leader. Throughout this course, you will build on your understanding of these basic concepts and skills as you integrate them into your work.

Before you begin your first of the series of five assessments that comprise the course project-a project that is the core of this course-read the Overview of Change Management Strategy Hands-On Experience Project [PDF] document to understand the scope of the project and its requirements.

Overview

As a part of your course project, you will be expected to engage with an outside group or a real-life team from your workplace, a place of worship, or a civic group, of at least four people. As you choose your client organization, be aware that you will be asked to think about and make recommendations to this team’s larger organization. If you have not yet done so, read the Overview of Change Management Strategy Hands-On Experience Project [PDF] document to understand the scope of this project and your assessment requirements.

Instructions

Your project proposal is the first deliverable you will provide for your client so they can understand the goal and purpose of the project and the scope of your work with them. Your project proposal should have these sections:

  • Project Objective.
    • Provide a clear and succinct statement of the project objective.
  • Background of Organization.
    • Identify the main contact and the role of that contact in the organization and for the change project.
    • Include a brief history of the client organization, what they do, and why they are in need of change management support.
  • Project Summary.
    • Describe your project. What is the change need?
    • Outline the scope of your project and what you will be doing for the client.
    • Identify stakeholders and sponsors.
    • State goals and objectives.
  • Project Timeline.
    • Explain how you will be meeting with your client organization.
    • Identify how often you will be meeting with your client.
    • Create a timeline that you can provide for your client so they will understand what’s going to happen.

Additional Requirements

Your submission should meet the following requirements:

  • Written communication: Write in complete sentences that are 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: 1-2 pages.
  • Citations: Include complete citations of any sources you use. 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 1: Analyze key change management principles.
    • Provide background on the client organization.
    • Provide a summary of the project.
  • Competency 3: Apply change management interventions.
    • Provide a project timeline.
  • 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.