Complete the self$-$assessment $($What is your image of managing change$)$ & then use your results to:

Write a Narrative Essay based on the $$six$-$image framework$$ which guides us on the images and assumptions we hold about managing change.

Your Essay Should

$$ Reports your score.

$$ Identifies your dominant image$($s$)$ for the role of change manager, and change outcome.

$$ Recaps the characteristics of a director, navigator, caretaker, coach, interpreter, and nurturer.

$$ Recaps the characteristics and assumptions of change outcomes as intended, partly intended, and unintended.

$$ Comments on the pros and cons of relying on one dominant change image versus taking a contingency approach in which you as the change manager apply different change management images.

$**$PERSONAL SELF ASSESSMENT RESULTS$**$

TOP IMAGE SCORE:

$1.$ DIRECTOR

$-$Sound Bite: $$This is what is going to happen.$$

$-$ Approach to Change: Management choice, command, and control

$-$When to Use: When urgent change is required for survival, and change manager has better knowledge of solutions

SECOND PLACE $(2-$WAY TIE$)$

$1.$ COACH

$-$Sound Bite: $$How can we develop our capability to deal

with change?$$

$-$Approach to Change: Shape systemic capabilities $$ values, skills, drills $$ to respond to change

$-$When to Use: When the organization$$s members need to resolve interpersonal conflicts and build an understanding to solve their own problems

$2.$ NURTURER

$-$Sound Bite: This is everybody$$s problem. How will we fix it$?$

$-$Approach to Change: Develop resilience, encourage involvement,

continuous learning, and self$-$organizing

$-$When to Use: When faced with competing and changing external pressures, requiring constant regeneration and adaptive learning