1) Everyone has a "change signature," one or more characteristic ways of dealing with changes a change agent, intermediary, and/or recipient. Understanding your change signature is very important to your effectiveness. You may want to change it, but even if you do not wish to make changes, it is helpful if you have thought about what it currently is.
2) Based explicitly on course materials from Seminars 1-5, describe your "change signature."That is, describe the characteristic way(s) you initiate and respond to organizational change efforts. There is no "one" correct change signature. For example you may be a proponent of radical change, resist any change that someone else initiates, or a combination. This paper is not just about your philosophy of responding to and initiating change. Rather, you should describe examples of behaviors in which you have engaged as a change agent and/or change recipient. You should link these behaviors explicitly with class materials (that you formally reference), and explore the linkage between the behaviors and materials in some depth.
3) Here are some questions to help you get started:
a) How I viewed change before this class?
b) How I view change now?
c) What has been the most important concept you can apply to your life?
d) What are some of the important concept that you can apply in a business setting?
e) How you respond to change
f) How you promote change
g) How you do not promote change
h) What are your thoughts about resistance?
i) When have you seen resistance in others? Why did they resist change?
j) What are your thoughts about the Kotter Model...is something missing, if so, what?
k) Is the Kotter Model helpful or not?
l) Did you find another change model that you resonate with more than the Kotter Model? If so, what is it and why?
m) What might you do differently in the future as it applies to change?
n) How does knowing your own change philosophy help you? Or not?
o) To what degree do you prefer a routine change? Can you think of a time when your routine was interrupted? How did you react?
p) How would you describe your emotional reaction to change?
q) Have you had a negative response to the short-term impact of a change, even though you could see the long-term benefits? What did you do?
r) How easy is it for you to change your mind? Why?