BUS301 Change Management Report: Leadership Approaches and Strategies

This report delves into the realm of change management, focusing on the case study of Blake Logistic Management and its practices. It explores various leadership approaches crucial for successful change implementation, including situational leadership, Kotter's eight-step model, and Lewin's three-stage model (Unfreeze-Transition-Refreeze). The report highlights the importance of situation analysis, creating urgency, forming powerful coalitions, and establishing a clear vision, as key steps in the change management process. It emphasizes the significance of each stage in Lewin's model, such as identifying the need for change, gathering support, communicating methodologies, and sustaining changes for long-term benefits. The conclusion underscores the importance of assessing change impacts and understanding internal and external drivers, offering valuable insights for leaders navigating organizational transformations. This report, contributed by a student, is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools.

Understanding and
Leading Change

Table of Content
INTRODUCTION
Leading change
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
Change management is a process involves introducing new
techniques and approaches in organisation that can support the
growth of organisation.
This report will project the case study on Blake Logistic
Management in respect to its change management practices at the
organisation.
Presentation of different leadership approaches relevant for the
change management role in organisation.

Leading change
Situation Leadership
Situation leadership approach is all about taking decisions
that best suits with the situation.
In this approach based on the practical situation all
decisions are taken in the organisation.
Situational awareness of the leaders plays crucial role in
this leadership approach in regards to the change
management.
Every time Blake Logistic Management conducts change
management in the organisation situation analysis is
conducted to assess about the practical situation.

Kotter’s change management model
Kotter has also introduced the leadership approach
that can be taken place in order to conduct the
change management process.
This leadership approach comprises with eight
different steps taken to implement change
management in organisation.
The change management starts with creating
urgency.
Formation of powerful coalition is the second step
involve in this process.
Creation of vision is a third step in this approach.

Cont..
Lewin’s change management approach
Unfreezing
 Unfreezing is the first step involve in this change management practice apply by leaders in organisation.
 Unfreeze involve identifying the need of change, gather support, developing strategies for change
management.
 All such steps allow leaders to introduce changes as per change management process.
 This is a professional approach to conduct change management operations.
 Initially the changes company actually needed are identified in this process.
 On the basis of the changes identified supports are gathered in organisation.
 Furthermore strategies developed to implement the change.

Cont..
Transition stage
This is a four step process involve communicating about the methodology, dismiss hearsay, encourage actions and engage peoples.
All the four steps allow the leaders to achieve the significance of the change management process.
This is transition phase of change management where the methodologies created for conducting change management, dismisses the
history and furthermore encourage actions for conducting change in organisation.
Refreeze stage
This stage involve imbed change, plan to sustain the change, provide support and celebrate the change.
All the four steps allow leaders to entertain change management process in organisation.
This is also an important part of change management process where the changes company has adopted are sustain for the longer time to
gain the complete advantages of the changes made in organisation.
It becomes important that changes made ion organisation are sustained for long period to gain the full benefits of change management
process.

CONCLUSION
Change management is an important process involves different
aspects like assessing the impacts of change, analysing the
potential profitability company get to entertain as a part of change
management and many other aspects.
All these factors allow leaders to implement changes in
organisation.
Drivers that influence the change management distributed into
internal and external drivers of change management.

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