Change Management Simulation: Power and Influence

I don’t understand the simulator at all. Does anyone have experience in this? In this single-player simulation, you will play one of two roles at a sunglass manufacturing firm and face the challenges associated with implementing an organization-wide environmental sustainability initiative. The initiative seeks to change raw material inputs in order to make the company’s products more “green,” and also to address environmental waste issues. The simulation includes up to four scenarios with different combinations of two important factors for creating change: the relative power of the change agent and the relative urgency associated with the change initiative. In each scenario, you will choose among different change levers in an attempt to persuade key members of the organization to adopt the change initiative. You will be assessed on your ability to achieve the greatest percentage of adopters within the company while simultaneously using the fewest resources. Harvard Business Publishing for Educators (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. You will analyze information on leadership and influence within the organization. Throughout the experience you will be assessing the impact of your decisions on the ability to influence key employees to work on the change initiative. Failure to accurately communicate and analyze information as a team has negative consequences on team performance. The main goals of this activity include learning: how to build an effective strategy and influence key personnel into following your lead; how to develop flexibility and adaptation in management initiatives; how cognitive biases impair decision-making; how strategy can help one deal more effectively in situations where there is resistance to change and conflict in organizational members’ opposing interests; how different leadership approaches can be obstructed in situations with time and competitive pressures; and how leaders deal with the tradeoffs between short-term task orientations and longer-term effectiveness. Part I: Setting the Strategy In this section, you will discuss the strategy that you developed before executing your plans and steps. You should address the following: How and why did you choose the CEO or Product Innovation Role? What was your vision, mission, and core strategy for the Simulation? Provide a SWOT analysis of your expectations.