Based upon your organizational analysis, and in discussion with your principal, pick one area or project to be your focus on leading change.

Using Kotter’s Eight Stages of Change Planning, create a proposed change document using the first four of Kotter’s Stages, with draft timelines for all four stages. You won’t be responsible for implementing the changes, as the class will be over by then. But, your responsibility is to create a reasonable plan, with description of the respective goals in each step, and to include a draft schedule/timeline for these stages to present to the principal.

I, and any reader, need to be able to follow everyone’s logic, plans, and rationale for choosing their respective one change area (feel free to refer to your org. assessment, change area choice, vision, and sense of urgency right away, knowing you’ll red to re-state the vision and sense of urgency in the Kotter steps).

The document must be at least 3 pages long, single-spaced, and with very good technical report formatting. Use MEMO headings, addressed to the principal.

Of the 3 pages, it’s OK to use maybe 1/2 a page on a distinct section for the time-lines of implementing your 4 Kotter steps.

So:

-you should use at least 7 section headings and/or sub-headings: one for the introduction/overview, four for the 4 Kotter steps, one for the time-line plans, and one for a conclusion.

-start with a nice introduction/overview of what the report is about, who it is to, describe the change area choice, and include your vision-like statement of what the change will look like, once accomplished.-use your own actual words in describing the area to be changed.-develop an actual statement describing the sense of urgency for why this is really important to implement and the consequences if not changed,

-please list specific names and positions of the people to be on the coalition, (if you have access to this information or an organizational chart)

-and your vision statement of what the completed change will look like when successfully implemented should be re-stated in Kotter’s step #3, followed by a strategy/plan for that section.

Please keep in mind, when recommending members for the guiding coalition. I want you to choose the members as a consultant making a recommendation. Also, please keep the coalition to no more than 10 members. Given research on team and committee size, 12 is about it. Any larger and members hide, and others dominate. So choosing a coalition membership size-anywhere between 3-10 will be fine.

f possible solicit feedback from your contact on your overall performance.

Finally do some research and identify 3 articles and two websites on organizational development and change that were written in the past 24 months that are related to one of the following areas:

Organizational development and change

Organizational development and employees

Organizational development and crisis management

Or another related area that might interest you. In addition to the library this site may have some helpful information:

https://doaj.org/

(Links to an external site.)

and Google Scholar

Devote at least 3-4 additional pages to this analysis.