Leading through Crisis and Change
Part 1 – Leading through Crisis and Change
When an organization is going through change – planned or spontaneous, there will be crisis at some point. Leading through crisis and change requires excellent communication skills. Review this week’s material and draw from your personal and professional experience pertaining to communication skills, and to ethics.
This week, your assignment is to identify a specific instance of crisis or change that your selected organization experienced (the same organization you have written about in assignments for week 3 and week 4). In your paper, provide the background for this event.
In the paper, include the following:
· How had the organization performed prior to the crisis or change?
· Explain the crisis or change that occurred – was is an accident or a strategically planned change?
· How did it occur?
· How did the organization find out about it?
· How did different factions react?
· How did the leaders communicate within and outside the organization?
· How did the organization resume normalcy (or does it remain in crisis mode?)
Once you have responded to each of the above questions and knowing what you know now about leading through change and crisis management, how would you, as a leader, have responded to the crisis and what steps would you have taken to minimize any chaos that occurred from the crisis?
Save this assignment to aid you in completing Week 8’s Final Project.
The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:
· Write between 4-6 pages using Microsoft Word in APA style.
· Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
· Include cover page, in-text citations and References page (if applicable)
· At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
· No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
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