Interactive assignment

Before you begin the assignment, read the Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit (Links to an external site.) article.

For this interactive assignment, you are to take on the role of an internal consultant that has been tasked with transitioning a large, traditionally multi-tier organization into a holacracy. Your role as an internal consultant is to create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation for the executive board that addresses the following elements of the change initiative.

• A description of holacracy.
• Justify the need for change from the current management model to holacracy.
• Use Kotter’s eight-step change leadership model to explain how you would implement holacracy.
• Describe the proposed change using each of Kotter’s eight steps of change leadership:
  • Establishing a sense of urgency
  • Creating a guiding coalition
  • Developing a vision and strategy
  • Communicating the change vision
  • Empowering broad-based action
  • Generating short-term wins
  • Consolidating gains and producing more change
  • Anchoring new approaches in the culture
• Explain some of the anticipated problems that may occur and recommend possible solutions.
• A references slide with a minimum of two scholarly and/or credible sources.

Attach the PowerPoint presentation to your initial post. Create an email to the executive board that addresses the purpose of your change management initiative. Provide a detailed explanation of why holacracy is a better fit for the organization.

Your initial post should be a minimum of 250 words.