Your final paper (5-6-pages) is an opportunity to apply what you have learned in this class. Cite a minimum of five course sources from those listed in the syllabus as applicable to back up your points.
The paper has two parts:
1. Change Strategy: 3 pages
You are the CEO of the Spectrum Sunglass Company and are tasked with creating a strategy for its sustainability initiative in a high urgency situation. Big Mart is threatening to take away 30% of your business. Your goal is to eliminate 25% of waste by redesigning the manufacturing process, reduce greenhouse emissions by 15%, and create a new product line using materials that don’t harm the environment.
Please review the HBR Change Management Simulation Scenario 4 Prepare Text and Lever Details: Influence with Authority, High Urgency. As stated, the retreat with your team was yesterday and it went well. Today, however, you must now develop a strategy using Kotter’s Accelerate model that we studied in Week 7. Make sure you reference the Dialogic OD framework and other key theories, frameworks, and concepts from this course.
For each of Kotter’s 8 Accelerators, identify what you will do, what actions you will take, who you will involve, and your rationale. BE SPECIFIC. (For example, clearly define your vision as you would present it – do not just tell me you will craft a vision).
We are looking to see if you can create a plan that is practical and actionable with sufficient detail that others will know what to do and why you should do it.
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2. Conversation Plan: 2-3 Pages
You are a Director at the Spectrum Sunglass Company. Your CEO has just handed you a change strategy to implement the sustainability initiative. (Use the strategy that you created from (1) above.) You take some time to look it over. Considering the importance and power of conversations in driving change, you prepare for meetings with three stakeholders and a town hall meeting.
a. IndividualMeetings:FromtheHBRSimulationScenario4,pickout3
people (see chart in Appendix A.) Choose one who is an adopter, one who is neutral, and one who is a resister. Name each person. For each one, describe:
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What is their point of view?
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What do they care about?
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What will you say to them?
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What will you say if you encounter resistance?
b. Town Hall Meeting: The town hall meeting includes a mix of people who
are adopters, neutral, and resistors.
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Provide the main points of what you will say.
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How you will handle resistance in front of a large group?
Here are the reference that you will need to cite for this paper:
Kotter, J. P. (2012). Accelerate! (Cover story). Harvard Business Review, 90(11), 44–58
Alavi, S. B. & Gill, C. (2016). Leading Change Authentically: How Authentic Leaders Influence Follower Responses to Complex Change. Journal of Leadership Organizational Studies, 24 (2), 157-171.
Issah, M. (2018). Change leadership the role of emotional intelligence. SAGE Open. 8(3), 1-6.
Mitchinson, A. & Morris, R. (2014). Learning about learning agility. Center for Creative Leadership, retrieved from https://cclinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/learningagility.pdf
Johnson, B. (1998). Polarity management: A summary introduction. Polarity Management Association. Retrieved from http://www.uuce.org/assets/McKandersHandout.pdf