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Part 2. Final Project Introduction, Stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s Change model.

Directions: Synthesize the introduction of the project with a systems analysis of a large healthcare institution applying Stage 1 and 2 of Kotter’s change model to your topic.

Stage 1: Establishing a Sense of Urgency

Stage 2: Creating the Guiding Coalition

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PART 3. Continue working on your final project centering this week on Stages 3 and 4 of Kotter's Change Model and apply to your topic.

Stage 3: Developing A Vision and Strategy

Stage 4: Communicating the Change Vision

Submit by Day 7 of week 3. Discuss the steps for implementing the system issue you have selected given the steps in the Kotter change model, and apply them to the large health institution used in Week 2 in performing a systems analysis. How would you expect the Mission, Vision, Values and Goals to be successfully communicated to the organization? What happens if the workers do not understand or accept them and how should the leaders deal with this implementation problem?

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PART 4. Using Kotter’s tables comparing the 20th and 21st century organizations and his tables on lifelong learning, in Leading Change, write a 6-8 page paper discussing the following.

• To what extent has your practice setting in your workplace moved into the 21st century model? Give specific examples.
• Briefly describe yourself in terms of the characteristics of lifelong learning depicted in the table and analyze your competitive capacity.
• Discuss the extent to which you have the mental habits that support lifelong learning as outlined in the Table on mental habits in lifelong learning. Give specific examples.

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PART 5. Continue working on Stages 5 and 6 of Kotter's Change Model and apply to your topic.

Stage 5: Empowering Employees for Broad Based Action

Stage 6: Generating Short-term Wins

Discuss how the system empowers employees for broad based actions of change as it applies to your system and how the system generate short term wins for achievements of strategic organizational goals. This assignment should be approximately 500-700 words in length.