Guiding Questions
Planning for Community and Organizational Change
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Vila Health: Planning for Change assignment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assignment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assignment. Do not turn in this document as your assignment submission.
Change Proposal
Draft a change proposal to justify your recommendation for improving the health of the community and establish the change as a priority for the next budget cycle.
Identify the benefits of proposed health care system changes and its implications for a community.
- What are the direct benefits of your proposed changes?
- How will improvements in overall health affect the community?
- What evidence supports your claims?
- What is the possibility that stakeholders jump to conclusions that are unfounded, given the nature and scope of the change? How would you avoid this risk?
Describe potential barriers to change in an organization or community.
- Why do people resist change?
- What factors in the organization and community create or contribute to resistance?
- What evidence do you have to support your claims?
Develop strategies for changing barriers into opportunities and resolving conflict.
- What are the drivers of change in organizations and communities?
- What is your vision for change?
- What are the expected outcomes and timeline?
- How will you communicate with stakeholders and overcome resistance?
- How will you resolve conflict among competing interests?
Develop a strategy for helping organizational stakeholders understand and evaluate the proposed changes to an existing health care system.
- Who are the key stakeholders in the organization?
- What influence do they have on your proposal?
- How will your proposed changes affect the organization?
- What data and information will you provide to decision makers?
Develop a grant proposal and associated budget for a proposed change to an existing health care system.
- Be specific and thorough in identifying budgetary requirements.
- Consider how you can present a compelling argument to the funding authority.
Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.
- Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
- Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.
Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.
- Integrate relevant and credible evidence from 3–5 peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications.
- Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?
- How or why does particular evidence support a claim?
- Will your reader see the connection?
- Did you summarize, paraphrase, and quote your sources appropriately?
Submission Reminders
- Have you identified the benefits of proposed health care system changes and the implications for the community? Have you provided supporting evidence?
- Have you described potential barriers to change in the organization or community and provided supporting evidence?
- Have you developed sound strategies for changing barriers into opportunities and resolving conflict?
- Is your plan for helping organizational stakeholders understand and evaluate proposed changes to the existing health care system complete?
- Is your proposal well-supported by 3–5 sources of relevant and credible evidence?
- Is your proposal properly formatted and 3–5 pages in length, not including the title page and references page?
- Did you proofread your writing?
