Chapter 3. Assessing the Organization’s Environment

What’s in This Chapter?

  • Assessment methods

  • Assessing the cultural readiness for change

  • Determining the core change leadership competencies to develop in change leaders and affected staff

  • Assessing the degree of focus and clarity of the change initiative

Before kicking off your program to help both leaders and staff initiate and deal effectively with change, there are several critical pieces of the information puzzle that should first be in place. One of these is to gain a better understanding of the culture of your organization. Another is assessing the level of forethought that has gone into the change by those who are leading it. Yet another is to identify what competencies need to be developed ...

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