Image of Implementing Change

Change managers or agents play active roles in making every organization to move forward to reach its goals. They have high responsibilities and duties in delving the ways for appropriate changes, and they also have necessary image for making some changes, and these are included (Palmer et al, 2009, p. 160):

(1) Image of implementing change is director (frame breaking). Director refers to change image that is related to directing some changes in the organizations. It is required for change managers to have specific skills to ensure that they can deal with resistance to changes.

(2) Image of implementing change is navigator (frame breaking). Navigator refers to the image of implementing change that is related to navigating some changes in the organizations. This image is to investigate all kinds of interests in the organizations, and it also underpins that when it starts to change who will be affected.

(3) Image of implementing change is caretaker (frame validating). Caretaker refers to the image of implementation that is relevant to taking care of the reasons why these people are resisted to change. This image is to give the opinions and pave the ways for making some changes. Furthermore, this image of implementing change also related to learning the theories in order to apply in the organizations. In short, this approach of change manager is concerned with accepting the theories to make some changes.  

(4) Image of implementing change is coach (frame breaking). Coach refers to the image of implementing change that concerns with interpreting the activities and creating the new ways for making some changes in the organization. This image of implementing change is to identify the problems and make some changes. In deed, this image of implementing change is related to negative deviance for changing or eliminating.

(5) Image of implementing change is interpreter (frame breaking). Interpreter refers to the image that is related to interpreting the changes in the organizations, and it is related to both negative and positive deviance for changing something in the organizations. This could be to identify the problem and then change or what is doing well now and try to make it better in the future.

(6) Image of implementing change is nurturer (frame validating). Nurturer refers to image of implementing change that is concerned with nurturing some changes in the organization because changes can not be predictable. This image of implementing change is also required to learn the theories and then apply them in the organization for making some changes.

                                                                                  Sam Aun (Andy)