1. Skills and Effective Practices
Tania Karney
AET/560
Gregory Dlabach
December 7, 2015

2. Skills and Effective Practices
Conceive
Develop
Test
Implement
Analyze

3. Analyze

4. Characteristics and skills of change leaders
Emotional Stability
Being able to maintain a professional demeanor at all times.
Possessing a happy personality
Confidence
Adapting to unknown situations and being able to succeed.
Being sure of your decisions.
Action Orientation
Being able to act out the change or follow through with the process.

5. Develop

6. effective practices and active listening to influence change
As a supervisor and leader, knowing the characteristics of change will help you in several ways.
In order to instill the characteristics in your team you must first possess them within.
Secondly, utilize the characteristics in your hiring decision making.
Lastly, “cultivate these characteristics in your team culture by taking steps to reinforce them and avoiding steps that contradict them”.

7. Testing

8. The actions or tasks needed to promote change
Changing employee behavior will require leaders to be flexible and adaptable.
Change will involve unknown and unexpected challenges, therefore, it will be necessary for leaders to navigate through the unknown and lead the employee through the change.
In order to promote change goals and objectives need to be set in place.
An open line of communication needs to be established between the leaders and thee staff.
Honesty and integrity should be displayed at all times in order to build a relationship between the staff.

9. Skills and Effective Practices

10. The actions or tasks needed to promote change
Encourage creativity
Promote communication
Develop a culture that welcomes and develop change

11. Reference
Six Characteristics of Highly Effective Change Leaders retrieved December 7, 2015 from, characteristics-of-highly-effective-change-leaders/
Yukl, G., & Mahsud, R., (2010). Why Flexible and Adaptive Leadership is Essential. American Psychological Association. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. Vol. 62, No. 2,