COURSE:

NR631: Nurse Executive Concluding Graduate Experience I

Collaboration Café

Leading and managing change is an important part of successful project execution and implementation. The nurse leader and project manager should be intimately familiar with a particular change theory or model that serves as the framework for leading the change represented by a project.

Spend time researching and investigating some evidence-based change models such as Kotter, Lewin, Lippitt, & Rogers (aka – Diffusion of Innovations). Identify your “go-to” change leadership framework and discuss how you will use that framework to guide organizational change.

Application: For change models with a series of steps or phases, identify which phase/step you are at now with your project and how the change model guides you in moving to the next phase/step.

SOLUTION

Professor and class,

For change models with a series of steps or phases, identify which phase/step you are at now with your project and how the change model guides you in moving to the next phase/step.

Kotter’s 8 step process for change is the one I am most drawn to when researching the change models. The 8-step process is spelled out and allows for early intervention of creating the need for change. The step-by-step process and the ability to assist with large impacting changes can be beneficial (Alhaderi, 2021). The steps of Kotter’s process (creating urgency………………………………$5