As a manager, whether youre a store, facilities, or a general manager in any type of environment, your teams work to meet the strategic direction of t

As a manager, whether youre a store, facilities, or a general manager in any type of environment, your teams work to meet the strategic direction of the organization. As strategic initiatives are adopted, you and your team may need to adapt to new directions. Change can be hard, and your team and your organization rely on your understanding of the organizational culture to support change.

In this assessment, you will use your experience and the organizational change chart you completed in Week 1 to assess the organizations culture to improve alignment among the culture, mission, vision, values, and strategies using Kotters 8-step change management model.?You provide your assessment including how proposed decisions for improvements align to the organizations mission, vision, values, and strategies to the leadership team.

Assessment Deliverable
Create a 7- to 10-slide presentation to the leadership of the organization you chose to explore in Week 1. Refer to your Organizational Change Chart from Week 1 and include the following:

Describe your assessment of the current culture within the organization at the time of your experience. Refer to the organizational change chart you completed in Week 1 to describe your assessment.
Develop a Change Management Plan using Kotters 8-Step model for the change goal you identified. Refer to the suggested actions for improvement you included in the Organizational Change Chart.
Determine the desired outcome as a result of the proposed change.
Analyze the alignment among the organizations mission, vision, values, strategies, and the proposed Change Management Plan.
Include speaker notes to provide additional details not already present on each slide.
Organizational Information (JD Sports Fashion)
Organizational Perceptions
Strongly disagree
Somewhat disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat agree
Strongly agree
Kotter’s 8-Steps to Change
Never observed
Rarely observed
Sometimes observed
Often observed

References
JD Sports Nike sneakers & adidas sneakers | Sports fashion, clothing & accessories. (n.d.). JD Sports.
Ong, S. Y., & Walker, A. (2022). Using Kotter’s 8 steps of change to tackle over?fasting of children attending day surgery. Pediatric Anesthesia, 32(11), 1238-1245.