by Ronald Claiborne

Created on: July 15, 2009

Successful organizational change is strongly influenced by organization leadership. Leaders who promote organizational learning are able to make things happen through the infusion of a leadership style that is visionary, motivational, and inspirational (Teare, 1997).

Through this type of leadership (Teare, 1997) the foundation for organizational change is laid through considering; how the organization can equip itself to detect and respond appropriately to market trends, what processes and procedures are needed to isolate patterns of external events, devise suitable responses and insure that the implications for re-aligning resources and competence are addressed; whether the organization should make a deliberate attempt to interrelate complex internal and external environments to planned organizational cultures for learning and creativity, and what the organization ideals or vision for change can be launched.

The leader must also consider how organization members can be encouraged to think and act responsively and without unnecessary constraint so that natural curiosity is a part of the culture; what kind of structure is appropriate now and in the future, what extent could and should the organization move towards facilitated self-organized learning networks so budgets, resources, targets and goals are released, how differing role of knowledge workers and generalist be reconciled to the new organizational approach.

Finally the leader must consider how the organization need to change information flows to take advantage of real time communications for transacting business, how information can be harnessed to promote organizational learning; what action is needed to ensure learning from experience is captured; how learning partnerships with external groups can be used to help the organization in the healing process, what performance measures should be taken and how will organizational performance be measured (Teare, 1997).

Laying the foundation for organizational change cannot be successful unless leadership is involved. Leaders ability to challenge processes, inspire shared vision, enable others to act, model the way and encouraging the heart allows the organization to make an effective change (Peg, 1996). Change is certain in all organizations but effective change must be led by effective leadership.

Effective leaders understand the three catalysts that affect organizational change. These catalysts seldom impact an

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