Leading Change: A Managers Role in Shaping the Future Workplace

Week 1 Brainstorming Discussion: The Role of a Manager in Leading Change BEFORE STARTING: Review the requirements located in the Brainstorming Discussions Module. Over the next eight weeks, you will be responding to the tasks your new boss Daniel Chinn has set out for you in his manager's on boarding program. Chinn is anxious to get a good idea of how you can benefit the company with your management skills. Each week you will follow the directions for the assignment and discuss them with your fellow hires so that you can develop your own best answers. This week Daniel Chinn wants to see your understanding of change in the company's workplace and how it will profit the company going forward. The New Virginia Meats, Inc.(VMI) Workplace At the end of the week, you as a new management hire will be asked to turn in a memo to the CEO of VMI (see corporate profile in week one content area) on the vision you have for the company's workplace. Brainstorming is a technique that seeks to collect a myriad of ideas about a problem in an effort to find a unique and often innovative way of handling the solution. It can also be a way of collecting information about a situation or produce feedback about a particular topic. Brainstorming works very simply with only three rules: No idea is too far fetched, all ideas are to be accepted by the grou