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Assignment: Group Project, Leading Change in HR Teams

Background

You are now at the midway point of the final course in the HR concentration of your MBA. In previous courses, you explored how to attract and retain top talent (JWI 521) and what it takes for HR leaders to earn a seat at the table (JWI 522). Throughout your JWMI journey, you have had opportunities to learn practices that are critical to building a winning organization. You're probably bursting with great ideas that you are anxious to put to work. Hopefully, you have been doing that already in keeping with our "learn it today, apply it tomorrow" focus.

As you are seeing in this course, large-scale change initiatives take time. They need to be well thought out, and they need concrete plans - like Kotter's 8-Step Model - to provide structure and accountability in order to make the change successful. The group project for this assignment will help you gain insight into how this applies to leading change in HR teams.

Project Overview

Your instructor will assign you to a group by the beginning of Week 2.

There is a Team Workspace in Canvas for each group to exchange materials and post to the group discussions. The link is located in the main course menu on the left-hand side. You will find instructions for accessing this in the assignment in the course.

You will first read the Change Initiatives in HR Leadership and Talent Development document on your own and choose a change Initiative you find to be the most interesting/compelling. Then:
Discuss this idea with your team and colleagues at work to gauge their reactions
Post your completed Change Initiatives in HR Leadership and Talent Development Template in the Group Workspace by Monday, 9:00 am (eastern) of Week 4

Your group will then discuss the templates submitted by each member, decide on a team focus area for the project, and submit a Team Charter identifying your focus areas and agreed-upon work process by the end of Week 4

During Weeks 5 and 6, your team will draft, review, discuss, and edit the components of the project.

The final submission is a PowerPoint Presentation created by the group applying Kotter's change model to the selected change initiative. This is due by Monday, 9:00 am (eastern) of Week 7, and will be assigned a single grade for all group members.

Detailed Instructions

Prior to your discussions with your group, review the "Change Initiatives in HR Leadership and Talent Development" document posted in the assignment module in Canvas. These ideas and initiatives are taken from current and previous course readings, so they should all be familiar to you. However, you may want to go back to the sources to remind yourself of the context and rationale presented by the authors.

Select your favorite change initiative based on the following criteria:
The idea genuinely excites you.
It would have a significant positive impact within your team and within your organization, if it could be implemented.
There is a realistic opportunity for your team to lead the way in getting this practice off the ground.

Each member will gather data to validate their selection using the "Change Initiatives in HR Leadership and Talent Development Template" posted in the assignment module in Canvas.
Get feedback from your own team at work or another group of professional associates.
Using the template, summarize the feedback as well as industry and economic factors that could impact the change initiative.
Each member will post their completed "Change Initiatives in HR Leadership and Talent Development Template" in the Group Workspace by Monday, 9:00 am (eastern) of Week 4.

Over the next week, discuss your selected change initiative with your group.
It's up to your group to decide how to coordinate communication. You may:
Use a virtual meeting tool such as WebEx, Zoom, GoToMeeting, Google Hangout, etc.
Share documents and/or videos via email or through the Team Workspace set up in Canvas.
Schedule conference calls.
In the group discussions, explain how your chosen change initiative would have a positive impact on your organization and industry. Address the evidence you gathered in #3 supporting your position. Present your professional assessment of why this practice is worth pursuing.
Respond to your teammates' positions by addressing where you have consensus and where you don't. Debate, explore, learn from each other, and have fun.
As your team engages in discussion, make sure you consider how the insights and models about the psychology of change covered in the course and used in your first assignment should be leveraged to support a positive outcome.

As a group, and leveraging the team feedback and data you have shared, narrow the field of initiatives down to one focus area for the Group Project. Take note of the following:
It may be based on a single idea or a combination of several ideas that work together as one initiative.
It must be non-trivial. In other words, it must be significant enough to warrant the effort to make the change, and it must have the potential to drive larger enterprise-wide change.
The focus must be chosen by group consensus.
You must describe a change that can be driven within your immediate teams.

Carefully read the instructions for Applying Kotter's Model to HR Change (below).
Discuss these with your group to make sure that everyone is clear on what is required.
If additional guidance is needed on any items, reach out to your instructor immediately.
Decide, as a group, how the workflow will be organized.
Which members will own which components?
How and when will drafts be submitted for group review?
What process will be used to finalize edits and prepare the final deliverable for submission?
Remember, everyone must contribute to the assignment, and the grade that is earned will be applied to all members of the group.

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