how an organization’s culture influences its ability to make desirable changes aligned to its mission, values, and strategies.

The following exercise introduces you to how an organization’s culture influences its ability to make desirable changes aligned to its mission, values, and strategies.

Complete the collaboration warm-up exercise, Assessing the Role of Collaboration in Facilitating Organizational Change. A transcript of this interactive exercise is also available.

Consider what you learned in the experience and respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• What do you think the role of collaboration is in assessing organizational culture?
• How do you think collaboration can assist an organization to align its current organizational culture with one that will facilitate positive change?
• What do you think the role of collaboration  is in initiating change?
• What are some of the strategies  you could use to contribute to effective collaboration when initiating      change?
• Describe a behavior you have expressed in the past that prevents effective collaboration. Explain how you could avoid repeating this behavior and identify a more effective one      to replace it with.