OL663-Describe a plan to create urgency within the organization and convince stakeholders that this
OL 663 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
In the final project, you will be developing a change plan for the “Alaska Airlines: Navigating Change.” In The Heart of Change Field Guide: Tools and Tactics for Leading Change in Your Organization, Cohen explains what is required from the leader and other parts of the organization to deliver Kotter’s steps successfully as a change intervention.
Review the case study “Alaska Airlines: Navigating Change” and then complete the following: (a) State what actually occurred in the case regarding Kotter’s first two steps of establishing a sense of urgency and creating the guiding team in a change effort and (b) reflect on what you think should have been done in the change effort regarding those two steps. State your reflection as recommendations to implement Kotter’s steps 1 and 2.
This milestone will help you build Section I parts A and B of your final project.
- Create Urgency
- Describe a plan to create urgency within the organization and convince stakeholders that this change needs to take place.
- What processes currently exist for implementing change? How will these processes need to be updated for the proposed change?
- Describe the strategy you will use to get support from your employees. How will this strategy be effective?
- Build a Guiding Coalition
- Identify who should be involved in this guiding coalition. Provide rationale for each choice. Kotter likes 50% leaders and 50% managers with experience, while others prefer the composition to be 33% leaders, 33% managers, and 33% informal leaders, but you can assemble the guiding coalition as you see fit.
- Determine steps you can take to ensure commitment from those involved. Describe those steps.
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 3−6−page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12−point Times New Roman font, one− inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
Critical Elements |
Exemplary (100%) |
Proficient (90%) |
Needs Improvement (70%) |
Not Evident (0%) |
Value |
Change Plan: Urgency |
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and description is exceptionally clear and contextualized |
Describes a plan to create urgency within the organization and convince stakeholders that the change needs to take place |
Describes a plan to create urgency within the organization and convince stakeholders that the change needs to take place, but plan is misaligned with the problem |
Does not describe a plan to create urgency within the organization |
20 |
Change Plan: Processes |
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and description is well supported with examples |
Identifies current processes for implementing change and describes how processes will need to be updated for proposed change |
Identifies current processes for implementing change, but does not describe how processes will need to be updated for proposed change |
Does not identify current processes for implementing change |
20 |
Change Plan: Support |
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and description is exceptionally clear and contextualized |
Describes a strategy to gain support from employees and describes how the strategy will be effective |
Describes a strategy to gain support from employees, but does not describe how the strategy will be effective |
Does not describe a strategy to gain support from employees |
20 |
Change Plan: Guiding Coalition |
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and rationale demonstrates a nuanced understanding of the roles involved in a coalition |
Identifies who should be involved in the guiding coalition and provides rationale for each choice |
Identifies who should be involved in the guiding coalition, but does not provide rationale for each choice |
Does not identify who should be involved in the guiding coalition |
20 |
Change Plan: Commitment |
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and description is exceptionally clear and contextualized |
Determines steps for ensuring commitment from those involved and describes each step |
Determines steps for ensuring commitment from those involved, but does not describe each step |
Does not determine steps for ensuring commitment |
20 |
Total |
100% |
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Rating:
5/
Solution: OL663-Describe a plan to create urgency within the organization and convince stakeholders that this