Change Management Simulation: Power and Influence V2 - Results While Playing the Simulation

Assignment #1: Change Management Simulation: Power And Influence V2

Corey M. Jackson

JWI 555 Organizational Change And Culture

Dr. Leo Giglio

September 4, 2016

RESULTS WHILE PLAYING THE SIMULATION

The simulation was a very interesting experience. Because it is the ultimate test to see if

your idea can work within the workplace depending on where you are in the pyramid of

leadership. Just like everyone else before starting the first scenario we have a plan on how we are

going to have the greatest plan of action and how the rest of the company is going to follow our

lead. That is until you notice that even though the simulation is automated, it shows how

different people in their different positions in different divisions of the company has their own

ideas, their own mind set on doing something great for the company and some are there to

simply resist because they do not want a change in any shape, form or fashion to take place in the

company.

I can admit that the results of the first scenario was kind of discouraging due to after

doing the personal interviews it seemed that since I wasn’t a CEO that nothing I wanted to do

mattered. The only thing that seems to save any credibility was by getting help from the

consultants. If one thing is timed wrong or loses the interest of the rest of the staff it’s a slow

crash for the rest of the simulation. I didn’t have any adopters outside of myself. In the third

scenario as a director I used a similar strategy, but I ended up with more positive outcomes. It

was all much to my surprise. I used the consultant a little bit more and personally interviewed

more people. In the first and third scenarios I would confront the resister, and in both situations it

was labeled as a bad move. More of the company was kind of resistant to the idea of building a

coalition. It was resisted in the first scenario, but accepted in the

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