Competency 1 Assessment Instructions

Have you ever experienced or learned about a company that needed changes in its culture? In this assessment, you’ll create a presentation that proposes cultural changes for an organization.

Consider a past or current professional experience where a culture change was needed. You can use the outline you completed in the Assessment Prep activity found in the Learning Resources folder.

Create a 7- to 10-slide presentation that shows your proposed improvements for the leadership of the organization you chose. Complete the following in your presentation:

• Assess the current culture within the organization at the time of your experience.
• Develop the Change Management Plan using Kotter’s 8 Steps to Organizational Change Model.
• Determine the desired outcome of the proposed change.
• Analyze the alignment between the organization’s mission, vision, values, strategies, and the proposed Change Management Plan.

Include detailed speaker notes. Ensure that your slides contain only essential information and minimal text.

Download and review the rubric. Use it as a guide when completing the assessment.

Submit your completed assessment using the Competency 1 Assessment submission area that will open after you complete the Competency 1 Reflection.

Competency 2 Assessment Instructions

In this assessment, you’ll write a paper that justifies a change in leadership style.

Review the organization you chose in the Competency 1 assessment.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word Leadership Styles Rationale paper. In your paper, complete the following:

• Restate the needed change within the organization.
• Analyze various leadership styles in the context of your organization’s culture and the proposed change.
• Justify which leadership style or approach would best support the organizational change. Explain how this style will accomplish the following:
  • Support sustainable organizational success
  • Integrate the organization’s mission and vision
  • Increase value for stakeholders

Download and review the rubric. Use it as a guide when completing the assessment.

Submit your completed assessment using the Competency 2 Assessment submission area that will open after you complete the Competency 2 Reflection.

Competency 3 Assessment Instructions

You’ve been hired as a consultant to effect positive organizational change at a major corporation. You’ll create a presentation showing your strategies and tactics for change. You may use the information you gathered in the Assessment Prep Activity from the Learning Resources folder.

Choose a well-known corporation, such as Samsung, Starbucks, Ford Motor Company, or Waste Management, that implemented a major change.

Review your analysis of the corporation’s change process. Make sure you understand the exact nature of the change and why the corporation needs to make it.

Create a 12- to 13-slide Change Management Presentation showing strategies with supporting tactics to implement positive changes. The presentation is for the company’s board of directors.

Complete the following in your presentation:

• Evaluate why this change needed to occur.
  • Explain how the change impacts the company on a global scale.
  • Explain how the change impacts employees.
• Using Kotter’s 8 Steps to Organizational Change Model, chart strategies and tactics for implementing the organizational change. In your chart, complete the following:
  • Develop strategies for each of the 8 steps in Kotter’s model.
  • Develop tactics to support each strategy.
  • Justify the effectiveness of each strategy and tactic with a rationale.

Conclude your presentation with an explanation of how this positive organizational change will help the company sustain a competitive advantage in the global market.

Include speaker notes for your presentation. Ensure that your slides contain only essential information.

Download and review the rubric. Use it as a guide when completing the assessment.

Submit your completed assessment using the Competency 3 Assessment submission area that will open after you complete the Competency 3 Reflection.

Make sure to give credit to any sources you use by including both in-text citations and a list of references. You can see how to do this in the APA 7 manual or in the University Library.