1. Using Kotter’s tables comparing the 20th and 21st century organizations and his tables on lifelong learning, in Leading Change, write a 6-8 page paper discussing the following.

• To what extent has your practice setting in your workplace moved into the 21st century model? Give specific examples.

• Briefly describe yourself in terms of the characteristics of lifelong learning depicted in the table and analyze your competitive capacity.

• Discuss the extent to which you have the mental habits that support lifelong learning as outlined in the Table on mental habits in lifelong learning. Give specific examples.

2. Continue working on Stages 5 and 6 of Kotter’s Change Model and apply to your topic.

Stage 5: Empowering Employees for Broad Based Action

Stage 6: Generating Short-term Wins

Discuss how the system empowers employees for broad based actions of change as it applies to your system and how the system generate short term wins for achievements of strategic organizational goals. This assignment should be approximately 500-700 words in length.

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• Evaluate how your identified organization has utilized Kotter’s stage 7 and 8 of consolidating changes to produce more change and anchored the new approaches within the organization. This should be approximately 700-1000 words.

  • Stage 7: Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change

  • Stage 8: Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture

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4. Conceptual and Theoretical Models – Write a 1500-1700 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Support your ideas with at least three (3) scholarly citations in your essay. Use strict APA guidelines to format the paper. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount and an abstract and table of contents are not necessary and if included are not part of the overall word count.

Choose a theoretical premise in healthcare delivery. Develop a conceptual model with words and graphics. You may choose a premise that has a conceptual model but you MUST revise the model both in words and graphics.

5. Subject Matter Experts and Data Collection – Your interview should be 1500-1700 words and should include at least three (3) citations. Clearly mark each heading to identify the interviews and summaries. Follow the guidelines for APA writing style. Be sure to use APA guidelines for referencing in an interview.

Choose a research topic that interests. This can be any topic you would like to research either qualitatively or quantitatively. An example might be effectiveness of a tool for monitoring home administration of medications however you can choose any topic you like. Develop a tool for collecting data (be sure to keep it fairly simple in the interests of the project), find three subject matter experts and have them evaluate your data collection tool through interviews. Include their assessment of the effectiveness of the tool. Be sure to include any recommendations for change in the tool. Then describe how the tool will change based on the recommendations.