Analyzing a Successful Change Process: Lewin's Model and Key Skills

This essay discusses the Lewin model of change management, highlighting its simplicity, universal approach, and emphasis on employee communication as key benefits. It identifies flexibility as a crucial skill for change agents, enabling them to adapt to diverse situations and implement various change initiatives. The importance of diverse knowledge, listening skills, and leadership qualities such as motivation and consensus decision-making are also emphasized for ensuring successful change implementation with minimal resistance. The essay concludes that acquiring these skills is essential for becoming a successful change agent.

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Lewin model of change management is the one of the most popular and widely use
change models by the contemporary business entities. The major benefit to be gained from using
this model is simplicity due to the reason that this model is having only three steps that are easy
for the change agents to implement in the real world situation. Moreover, the three steps included
in this model are covering the relevant areas of the change management process such as
identification of the key gap areas, implementing the change and evaluating the effectiveness.
Thus, the change agents will not have to face many complexities in implementing the Lewin
models of change in their organizations. Another advantage of this model is universal approach,
which denotes that this model can be implemented in any organizational situations. It should be
noted that different organizations are having different business situations and requirements for
change management. The universal nature and approach of the Lewin change model is applicable
in any of these situations and thus the acceptability of this model is also more compared to other
change management model. The importance given to the employee communication in this model
is another benefit to be gained by the change agents. This is due to the reason that
communication and involvement of the employees in the change management plan is important
in gathering the feedback from them along with preventing the resistances from their side. Thus,
it can be concluded that the flexibility of the lewin change model is one of the major advantages
and it is also one of the prime reasons for the wide popularity among the business organizations.
One of the major skills that will be required in becoming the successful change agent is
flexibility. This is due to the reason that the successful change agent should have the capability
to get adjusted with different situations. This will only enable them to initiate different change
initiatives according to the perspectives. Moreover, the change agent should have diverse
knowledge in different areas. This is due to the reason that diverse knowledge and understanding

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of the change agents will be beneficial in having the flexibility to implement different ideas in
the change process. The more diverse knowledge will be with the change agents, the more will
be their expertise in initiating change in different areas. They will be able to initiate diverse
understanding and ideas in the process. Thus, I should also acquire diverse knowledge in
different areas in becoming a successful change agent. Listening skill is another major skill that
should be with the successful change agent. This is due to the reason that change agents should
listen to other stakeholders in order to gain their views and this will help in designing the change
process. The more effective will be the listening skills of mine, the more I will be able to get
others along in the change process without having the chance for resistances. There is few
leadership skills also should be displayed by me in order to make the change successful such as
motivating the other stakeholders. This is due to the fact that motivation of all the involved
stakeholders is important to have the larger involvement in the process. Thus, the motivational
skills of the leader should be there to influence the stakeholders in succeeding the change
process. In addition, the leadership skill of consensus decision making process is also important
because initiation of decisions on the basis of consensus among all the involved stakeholders will
ensure that resistances are low in the process and the change process is getting implemented in
seamless manner.