Fundamentals of Change

Question 1

Be sure to identify the organization in your discussion.

1. Three Fundamentals of Change. Black (2014) identifies three fundamentals of change: anticipatory, reactive, and crisis. Describe in detail the three fundamentals of change from your own change experience—personal or professional.
2. Graphing the Fundamentals of Change. Graph the one, two, or three fundamentals of change using the Tiger Woods’s anticipatory change graph as an example (Figure 9.6), to reveal the effect of the fundamental(s) in a personal or professional change initiative with which you are familiar.

Question 2

Select someone in a leadership position at your organization or at a local company where you might seek employment. This individual could be a director, manager, supervisor, or CEO of the organization.

Interview the above individual who has a leadership role.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word profile of the individual that you interviewed for your company’s newsletter, and include the following:

• Identify the individual and their position within the company, and briefly describe the organization.
• Interpret the individual’s leadership style based on the Five-Factor personality model, and offer one or more examples of the management and leadership roles of this individual.
• Explain one incident where this individual had to solve a difficult problem or situation because things did not go as planned.
• Describe the lessons that she/he learned from being able to problem solve, even when what she/he had been taught did not work.