In a three- to four- page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), reflect on an important professional change that you have experienced. Compare your change story to one of the stories from the beginning of Chapter 1 of the text. Answer the following questions and support your thoughts with at least two scholarly sources.

In your paper you must:

• Describe your change story and the one selected from      Chapter 1 of the text.
• Discuss the common issues and lessons present in both stories.
• Identify and discuss the embedded lesson found in the four change stories of Chapter 1.
• Describe how you might use the lessons as a solutions template during future change strategies.

Your paper should include in-text citations and references for at least two scholarly sources, in addition to the course text, and it should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION;

Discuss important professional change

Introduction

When a professional change happens, it can be stressful and scary. However, there are ways to make the transition easier for yourself and your business. Here are some tips for handling professional changes:

Celebrate.

The change is a big one, but it’s important to celebrate it.

You can do this by looking at the positive aspects of your new role and taking time out for reflection on what you have gained from this transition. Don’t dwell on the negative aspects of being reassigned or relocated, as these will only make things worse in the long run. Be honest with yourself about whether or not this change has been as smooth as possible; if there are any hiccups along the way (no matter how small), ask yourself why they happened and how they could be avoided next time around.

It might also help to talk through certain topics with colleagues who were involved in helping you transition into your new role even if they weren’t directly involved in helping facilitate your move! This can be helpful because having someone else’s perspective can often bring clarity when thinking through difficult issues like relocation or job transfers, especially where feelings of insecurity might get clouded under other concerns like finances/workload balance issues etcetera.”

Understand what you can control and what you can’t.

You should be able to answer these questions:

• What is your role in this change? How do you fit into the company’s priorities and culture? Are you expected to make changes or stay the same?

• What is your company’s goal? What do they want from this new direction? How will it benefit their customers, employees, shareholders and other stakeholders (e.g., suppliers)?

• What are our values as an organization at this point in time? Are they aligned with what we used to believe when starting out as a company or have we drifted away from them over time due to external pressures or internal conflicts between departments within an organization (e.g., finance vs IT)?

Ask questions.

Asking questions is an important part of the professional change process. It is not enough to simply read about a situation and think “I could do that.” You will have to ask questions, including leading ones, in order to understand the situation better.

• Ask questions about what you’re reading: “What does this mean for me?” In this case, it means that if you are in your mid-50s and working at a Fortune 500 company as an associate VP of marketing with responsibility for all digital marketing efforts at the company’s main office branch in New York City (NYC), then your goals might be different than those of someone who started their career working as an intern at a very small startup while they were still attending college full time because they needed money for school or because they wanted experience before starting their own business later on down the road after graduation from college when they had saved up enough money from working full time jobs during summers between semesters throughout high school years leading up into freshman year freshman year sophomore year junior year senior year graduate school…

Don’t be afraid to be candid.

• Be honest about your feelings.

• Be open about your options.

• Be honest about what you have to offer and what you need, but also be open to the possibility that someone else can give more than you at this point in your career.

• Understand that there are likely other people on the same journey with different goals or experiences who might be better suited for a specific role than yourself, so try not to get too attached to one particular outcome (i.e., “I should be promoted because I’m good at _____”).

Keep an open mind about the future of the business.

• Keep an open mind.

• Consider the possible outcomes.

• Look at the big picture.

• Don’t get caught up in the details, and don’t let emotions cloud your judgement when making decisions about a change of direction or strategy for your business.

If you like the direction of change, move forward. If not, reevaluate your position and options.

If you like the direction of change, move forward. If not, reevaluate your position and options.

If it’s time for a professional change and you’ve decided to stay in your current role:

• Be open to new opportunities. You never know when an opportunity will arise that could be right up your alley!

When professional change happens, accept it and decide whether it’s best for you to stay or go.

When professional change happens, it’s okay to feel sad or angry about the decision. It’s also okay to be afraid, but you can’t let it stop you from moving forward with your new job.

If a company decides that they want to move on without you and they want to hire someone else instead of letting you go, then there are some steps that need to be taken in order for this process not turn into another situation where someone loses their job due to something as simple as shifting priorities within an organization.

Conclusion

Change is something that can happen to anyone, anytime. While it may be difficult to process the major shift in your life, you should make an effort to learn from this experience so that you can better prepare yourself for future change.