Organizational change can be intimidating for business leaders. The internet hosts several sites for small consulting firms that specialize in helping corporate leaders initiative positive change in their organizational culture. One such firm, Change Management Solutions, Inc., (CMS) uses a five-step change model, which encompasses contemporary collective and collaborative theories and models of change and change leadership. The firm considers culture, organizational leadership, and change planning as essential tools to prevent “becoming one of the 75% of businesses who fail at change.” (Puelo, n.d.)
Similar to the design of the chapters in Hickman’s book, the CMS website promotes “Effective (change) plans answer the critical who, what, when, where and why questions that enable change leaders to succinctly express the reasons and outcomes of a change initiative to employees.” (Hickman, 2010, and Puelo, n.d.) CMS mindfully considers the culture of the organization, and how best to incorporate change into it, as evidenced by “Once we have these answers, then a detailed, strategic, multidimensional implementation plan is developed and shared with key stakeholders.” (Puelo, n.d.) Without stakeholder agreement, a corporation is likely to be one of the 80% that fail to make change (class discussion) Effective change, according to CMS, is change without burnout, that is, change that supports the organizational leaders, colleagues, and subordinates. CMS purports that sustainable changes are “Changes that become a part of an organization's culture;” supports contemporary change theory that effective organizational change is “change focused on actions to achieve a competitively superior fit based on the organization’s mission...
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...in mission, vision or organizational structure that ultimately leads to failure of the change initiative.
The firm considers culture, organizational leadership, and change planning as essential tools for sustainable change. CMS invoking a five-step change model, consistent with contemporary collective and collaborative theories and models of change and change leadership, to help its clients effect organizational change.
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As you would imagine, having to look at our current processes and breaking each process down at micro level was a very daunting task for everyone involved in the project. After going through the progression of identifying which processes were potential changes, the leadership and project team members were tasked with communicating the findings and what the official implementation plan for these changes would look like. From my perspective, this was the biggest pitfall for the team. Our communication plan was not as detailed as it should have been in terms of illustrating value to other team members and leaders within the division. In addition, the project and leadership teams set unrealistic processing goals for team members. Thus, minimizing the division’s potential to create short-term wins for individual team members, as well as for the organization as a whole. Therefore, one could identify our breakdown occurring during the second cluster of Kitters’ Eight Steps of Change. Thus, this paper will attempt to address how change management can help leadership implement a change within the organization through analysis and
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...n provide a shared direction” (Jacobs and Heracleous 2006, 211). Such ambiguity of meaning, encourages organisational members to discuss the suitability and practicality of different meanings, thus potentially creating new knowledge and shaping new behaviour influences. Yet there is a threat of fragmentation among organizational members and the associated risks to the success of organisational change management (Reissner, 2011).