Creating a Guiding Coalition - The First Step to Organizational Change

It is essential for any company undergoing a cultural change to embrace diversity and expertise across the various fields in the company. To do so, it is crucial for the company to create a team that will steer head this change process. Usually, the team, as was the case by the R&D organization, is drawn from every sector o department of the team to ensure each of these is equally represented. But R&D went a step further in incorporating various levels of experience. The team was composed of young leaders with little experience in their various fields and seasoned technical leaders. At the same time, in the assignment and reassignment of duties, these leaders were tasked with leading departments they had hitherto had no direct leadership over (Christensen, 2015) . This tactic was to ensure that every leader is well versed with the different departments in the company to ensure they become all-around leaders. 

Following this model is particularly important for any organization that is undergoing a cultural change. To create a guiding coalition, I would draw leaders from every department of the organization, regardless of their work experience, then introduce them to different sectors of the organization to ensure they not only become exposed to the expertise they had no direct contact with but also with various departments. To achieve this change, I would mostly need the corporate management to facilitate the change model, not just financially, but by also monitoring its progress and making observations where due. Similarly, I would require the combined effort of every team in embracing and participating in the new model (Alvesson & Sveningsson, 2015). It is essential to make these individuals a part of the guiding coalition because it is crucial to creating avenues for young leaders to be exposed to mechanisms and expertise they had no idea of, just as much as it is vital to ensure that every person is versatile when it comes to different organizational operations. 

References 

Alvesson, M., & Sveningsson, S. (2015). Changing organizational culture: Cultural change work in progress . Routledge. 

Christensen, L. (2015). Creating Cultural Change in a 115-Year-Old R&D Organization. Research-Technology Management , 58 (3), 30-40.