5 Disciplines

Discuss the 5 disciplines of the “learning organization” and how it would influence change.
The first discipline is “Shared vision” a common view of what the goal is, Second discipline is “Mental models”, the practice of self-awareness and its effect on the organization. Third is “Personal Mastery” being open, self-aware and reflective while changes occur. Fourth is “Team Learning” collaboration of ideas and fifth is “System thinking” seeing the organization as a machine and every moving part involved in making the machine work. This can influence change per Yoder-Weiss (2015) “a culture that promote employee engagement and participation generate an environment s that embrace change.”(p. 313).
Describe using the five functions of the change process how you would manage a change in your workplace? Discuss strategies you would use.
Change is hard for some people, one becomes accustom to how things are regardless if they are working or not. Once I identify something that needs to change, I would involve the staff in helping pinpoint why it isn’t working and set goals together to create that joint perceptive “I would use “System thinking” I think this gives a sense of ownership we each play a role in making it work and also “team learning” because we are the sum of its parts.
Discuss how you feel about change. What are your responses to change?
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love change, especially if it is to improve something, I’m always looking for ways to make thing more efficient, and better. I respond very well to change, I always volunteer to pilot changes at my current job. I don’t like doing things just because they were always done that way; or hearing people say that. It reminds me of a story someone told me (I think there are different versions of this story). It’s a story about meat loaf recipe; a girl ask her friend why does she cuts the end of the meat loaf before she put it in the baking dish and she responded because that’s the way my mom makes it , so the girl ask her mom why do you cut the ends off your meat loaf and she said that’s the way my mom makes it , so the girls mom ask her mother why does she cut the ends of the meat loaf and she responded because pan was too small.
Communication is an important part of your work day. How could communication improve in your workplace?
Per Yoder-Weiss (2015) Effective communication is key in maintaining a functioning team.
Communication can improve in my workplace by decreasing distractions, our office is very small and the constant conversation with each other and or phone calls can be a distraction. This leads to frustrations and miscommunication and errors because most of what we do requires high concentrations. Since we have cubicles you can hear conversations, I think a ways to remedy this is having set times for phone calls, and quiet time for when we review patient records, and conversation should be taken outside of the office between
colleagues.
Describe some of the communication pitfalls that you encounter and how they could be corrected.
One of the pitfall I encounter is when two people are trying to get their message across but not listening to each other so they don’t get the message. This can be corrected by actively listening to each other to be able to receive the message. Another Pitfall is blaming others this according to Yoder-Weiss (2015) is putting blame on the other person for your feelings. This can be corrected you understand that the communication breakdown is shared and taking responsibility for your part.
Discuss a team that you are on or have been on. What roles do you take? Evaluate the effectiveness of the team using the attributes of effective teams listed in Table 18-2 (also in the Chapter 18 Checklist).
At my current position as a Clinical Documentation Nurse I am part of the special project team. It’s a group of about five who don’t have daily assignments but take on special projects, such as audit, quality reviews, compliance reviews and as preceptors. Allot of the times I end up as project manager basically taken on the lead role. Our Team is very effective, we are informal and understand and respect each other’s opinions. During our meeting for assignment distribution we share ideas and make sure our assignments and goals are clear and our expected outcomes are clearly stated. We are very open to changes which helps us come up with better ways or plans of going about these assignment.