- This is a second of a 2 part assignment. The 1st Assignment is uploaded below for your reference.
- The Kotter 8-step model is also uploaded below
- Recipe for Success: Growth
and Evolution at Café Cupcake ebook downloaded below
Introduction
You’ve
been learning about how important it is for you, as a leader, to step up and
manage change—whether it’s change that happens to your organization or changes you implement to make your
organization better. Be sure to review the different models for managing and
initiating change, including Kotter’s 8-step change model.
For
this assignment, revisit the case study from Assignment 1 about the challenges
and changes at Café Cupcake. Select a change that Café Cupcake is trying to
implement in order to grow its business and use Kotter’s 8-step model to
describe how you would do it. How will you create urgency around your change?
How will you form a coalition? It is OK to be creative!
Instructions
1.
Download the Implement Positive
Change at Café Cupcake Template Download Implement
Positive Change at Café Cupcake Templateand
save it to your computer.
2.
Make sure you have read the case study Recipe for Success: Growth and Evolution at
Café Cupcake(in your eBook) before you begin the assignment. This
is the same case study you used for your first assignment.
3.
Select one of the changes you identified in the first assignment
from the case study.
4.
Describe the change and what sparked the team at Café Cupcake to
implement it.
5.
Apply Kotter’s 8-step model to implement the change at Café
Cupcake.
1.
Explain what you would do in each of the steps to implement the
selected change.
2.
Learn more about each of the steps by reading Kotter: The 8-Step Model.
6.
Assess the use of Kotter’s 8-step model for this case.
7.
Explain your thoughts on this process of implementing change.
1.
Do you think it was effective in this case?
2.
Justify your response.
8.
Save your document as FirstInitial_LastName_JGR300_ W6A.
9.
Submit your assignment below.
Course Connections
While
completing this activity, be sure to connect your responses to the course
content you have learned so far. You should use specific phrases, ideas, and
quotes from the Strayer
Story videos, Coach’s Huddle, weekly readings, and/or
discussion questions to explain and support your thoughts.
Assignment
Requirements
Formatting
The
length of the paper should be 3–5 pages.