Understanding and Leading Change: A Leadership Approach Analysis

This presentation delves into the critical aspects of understanding and leading change within organizations, emphasizing the role of leadership in navigating barriers and fostering successful transitions. It examines various leadership approaches, including situational and contingency leadership, highlighting their applicability in different organizational contexts. The presentation further explores change management models such as Lewin's three-stage model (Unfreeze, Change, Refreeze) and Kotter's 8-step model, providing practical frameworks for implementing change effectively. A critical evaluation of these leadership approaches is also presented, considering their strengths and limitations in real-world scenarios. The document concludes by underscoring the importance of strategic leadership in ensuring the successful adoption and integration of change within organizations.

Understanding and Leading change
(TASK 3)

Table of Contents
 Introduction
 Leadership approaches
 Critically evaluation
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
When the organizations move forward towards incorporating change within their
processes they have to face certain barriers of change. In this presentation,
discussion will be made on leadership approaches that uses to accept the
changes and respond towards them properly.

Different leadership approaches
Situational leadership approach – This is an approach which is uses by manager and
leader of organisation where organisation adjust their leadership style to the
development of followers and influences them. In this leadership style, it is up to
leader to change their style of working not the follower who adopt the styles.
Contingency leadership approach – This is effective leadership approach
that matches leader's style to the right setting. This can help to match the
leader and situation so changes can be accepted and maintain the good
performance.

Cont..
Leadership is the important activity which needs to be perform by managers
and leaders of organisation in order to motivate employees who are
working organisation and increases the performance. Situational and
contingent are leadership approaches which are uses to accept the changes
according to situation and instant changes that occurs in organisation while
working. This may affect the business and bring changes accordingly.

Application of models
Lewin's change management model-
In this model there are three stages. Through these stages a change can be
easily incorporated within an organization. These stages are Unfreeze is the
first stage of the model. It involves breaking of the status quo within the
organization. There may be an existing pattern of working within the
company. To introduce change it becomes highly essential for the leaders to
make the workers break the status quo and adopt the change (Scott, 2018).

Cont..
Kotter's 8-step model-
Kotter's 8-step model is quite useful for the organizations in incorporating
change. It identifies the process through which changes can be
systematically and effectively implemented within an organization. The
steps in this model are as follows-
Creating a sense of urgency- In this step, the leaders can create an urgency
for the purpose of implementing change within the organization.
Putting together a coalition- In this step, the focus is made by the leaders
to create a team in which the members are quite skilful.

Cont..
Accomplishment of short-term wins- The leaders can make sure that they
are able to accomplish short-term wins in incorporating change in this
step.
Build on the change- The leaders need to build on the change process in
this step so that organization can work smoothly.
Making the change stick- The leaders should ensure that the change
process must stick within the organization in this step (Matser, 2017).

Critical evaluation of leadership approaches
Thus in this way the leaders of Blake Logitech Management can ensure that
the changes are implemented step-by-step in the organization. According to
this theory, a leader needs to act and take decisions on the basis of different
types of situations which can occur. Therefore this makes sure that the
leaders are able to assess the situation and then take the necessary action. In
the context of Blake Logitech Management, it is quite essential that its
leaders are able to take action after assessing the gravity of the situation.

CONCLUSION
From the above presentation, it can be concluded that the barriers of change can create
problems for a particular organization in incorporating change. Using situational and
contingency approach is useful for organisation which can help to improve the business
performance by accepting the changes.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Byers, V., 2017. The challenges of leading change in health‐care delivery from the front‐line.
Journal of nursing management. 25(6). pp.449-456.
Espedal, B., 2017. Understanding how balancing autonomy and power might occur in leading
organizational change. European Management Journal. 35(2). pp.155-163.