| Title | Change Style Indicator |
| ShortDescription | This tool from Discovery Learning is a change management assessment designed to measure preferred styles in approaching and dealing with change. |
| LongDescription | The Change Style Indicator identifies strengths and pitfalls of change style characteristics. It enables individuals to collaborate as a team to revise a work process within changing requirements to deliver satisfactory results. It looks at factors that can impact an organization's readiness to deal with and sustain change in challenging times. Participants are placed on a change style continuum ranging from a Conserver style to an Originator style. A third style, the Pragmatist, occupies the middle range of the continuum. The three styles display distinct differences and preferences when approaching change.
The assessment uses 22 situational pairs to establish a ranking of how the respondent prefers to address and work with change. The assessment addresses both initiated and imposed change and places the respondent on a 133-point continuum between Conserver and Originator with Pragmatist in the center of the continuum.
Most individuals are a blend of Conserver-Pragmatist or Pragmatist-Originator; however, the degrees of blending are identifiable. The preferences and behaviors associated with 11 scoring segments along this continuum are described in detail and are reported on the personalized assessment sheets.
The tool can improve teamwork by avoiding conflicts and reducing dysfunctional meetings and enabling the group's creativity and innovation by understanding style preferences.
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| Organization | Discovery Learning |
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http://www.discoverylearning.com/products/change-style-indicator.aspx
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| ToolFormat | available online or in hard copy |
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