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.
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.
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