How Long to Read Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning

How Long Does it Take to Read Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 13 minutes to read Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning by Arthur M. Freedman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Organizations in all sectors and in all industries are and will continue to be confronted by the challenge of multiple changes in their external environments. For example, creation of disruptive technologies, fluctuating economies, increasing or decreasing governmental regulations, demographic shifts, human and natural disasters, expanding globalism, and aggressive competition. As the environmental landscape changes unpredictably along many different dimensions, organizations must recognize and adapt to the discontinuous threats and opportunities that these changes create. This calls for organizations themselves to change in ways that their unique histories have not prepared them. Thus, organizations today need effective tools to enable them to quickly create solutions for complex, systemic, important, unprecedented problems. Organizations must also learn from their experiences in creating such solutions: high potential managers must acquire executive-level knowledge, skills, and attitudes; problem solving team members must learn how to develop high performing teams; team members must learn how to deal with problems among interdependent subsystems and between their organization and its various stakeholders. These are the areas in which action learning makes a powerful and enduring impact. This book is intended for leaders at all organizational levels who are contemplating leading, planning, and managing complex systems change using action learning. It has two parts. In part I, the authors use a series of questionnaires to enable organizational leaders to make informed decisions about the kinds and types of consultants they might engage to assist them in leading transformational, unprecedented organizational change and leadership development programs. The types of consultants considered are contract employees (extra-pairs-of-hands), trainer-educators, technical experts (techsperts) and subject matter experts (SMEs), consulting organizational psychologists (COPs) and organization development and change (OD&C) practitioners, task or process facilitators, and action learning team coaches. The authors encourage leaders to avoid all or nothing choices and to consider, instead, employing a mix of types of consultants to be deployed where each type is best suited to be of assistance. Multidisciplinary consulting teams are encouraged.Part II focuses on the requisite infrastructure for action learning projects and the role responsibilities that leaders must assume to assure the success of these efforts. The authors provide a detailed description of the essential elements of an effective action learning project. These are:1. Compelling, important, urgent, complex, unprecedented problems2. The action learning team3. The questioning and reflection process 4. The commitment to taking action5. The commitment to learning6. The action learning team coachFor each element, the authors provide detailed descriptions of essential leadership functions and the common issues that emerge. We provide advice to leaders on actions they can take to solve emerging project management problems and to learn from the experiences. The contributions of action learning to the process of developing a learning organization is also explored.

How long is Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning?

Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning by Arthur M. Freedman is 132 pages long, and a total of 33,264 words.

This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 41% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 1 minute to read Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning aloud.

What Reading Level is Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning?

Leading Organizational Change Using Action Learning is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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