Individual Project

Question description

Kotter’s 8-stage model is a useful, comprehensive, step-by-step approach for making change. It applies systemic thinking to any change project.
Stage 1: Establishing a Sense of Urgency
Stage 2: Creating the Guiding Coalition
Stage 3: Developing A Vision and Strategy
Stage 4: Communicating the Change Vision
Stage 5: Empowering Employees for Broad Based Action
Stage 6: Generating Short-term Wins
Stage 7: Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change
Stage 8: Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture
Please review the following:
http://www.kotterinternational.com/the-8-step-process-for-leading-change/
Objective:

Analyze the context in which your scholarly project will take place.
- Assess the organization.
- Identify system issues and facilitate organization-wide changes in practice delivery.

Table of Analysis of Health System Issue Project Due Dates

Week	Due
Week One	Choose a Topic
Week Two	Intro of your system analysis & how stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s change model apply to your topic.
Week Three	Continue and Submit Literature Search
Week Five	Submit First Draft of Paper
Week Six	Review and Edit First Draft
Week Seven	Submit Final Paper Write and Post an Executive Summary
Week Eight	Critique Presentations of Two Other Students

Part 1: Prepare a paper an introduction of 500 – 700 words describing the system that you have selected for your paper.

Describe the system, including the history and development. Include the number and types of people who work in this system, for example the number of employees and the number of patients served.
What are the mission, vision, and values of your system? How are these things demonstrated to your clients and the community?

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Part 2. Final Project Introduction, Stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s Change model.
Directions: Synthesize the introduction of the project with a systems analysis of a large healthcare institution applying Stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s change model to your topic.
Stage 1: Establishing a Sense of Urgency
Stage 2: Creating the Guiding Coalition
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PART 3. Continue working on your final project centering this week on Stages 3 and 4 of Kotter’s Change Model and apply to your topic.
Stage 3: Developing A Vision and Strategy
Stage 4: Communicating the Change Vision
Submit by Day 7 of week 3. Discuss the steps for implementing the system issue you have selected given the steps in the Kotter change model, and apply them to the large health institution used in Week 2 in performing a systems analysis. How would you expect the Mission, Vision, Values and Goals to be successfully communicated to the organization? What happens if the workers do not understand or accept them and how should the leaders deal with this implementation problem?
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PART 4. Using Kotter’s tables comparing the 20th and 21st century organizations and his tables on lifelong learning, in Leading Change, write a 6-8 page paper discussing the following.

To what extent has your practice setting in your workplace moved into the 21st century model? Give specific examples.
Briefly describe yourself in terms of the characteristics of lifelong learning depicted in the table and analyze your competitive capacity.
Discuss the extent to which you have the mental habits that support lifelong learning as outlined in the Table on mental habits in lifelong learning. Give specific examples.

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PART 5. Continue working on Stages 5 and 6 of Kotter’s Change Model and apply to your topic.
Stage 5: Empowering Employees for Broad Based Action
Stage 6: Generating Short-term Wins
Discuss how the system empowers employees for broad based actions of change as it applies to your system and how the system generate short term wins for achievements of strategic organizational goals. This assignment should be approximately 500-700 words in length.