The hard work required to plan and successfully complete an environmental audit is the beginning of the performance improvement process. The audit is a needs assessment. The real work involves designing, implementing, and sustaining efficient solutions to the most pressing problems defined in\u00a0\tthe audit. Efficiency means that objectives, no matter how high they are set, are achieved with the least cost, effort, and risk.\tResources: High-level Structured Change Management Worksheet, Obstruction Behavior and Mitigation Worksheet, Appendix E, Appendix F\tComplete the High-level Structured Change Management Worksheet.\tComplete the Obstruction Behavior Worksheet.\tPropose an environmental initiative, using structured change\tmanagement methods. Part One\tChoose one of your team member’s Regulatory Compliance Audit assignment and company to use for this assignment.\tIdentify one of the most pressing sustainability problems at the facility used in the Regulatory Compliance Audit assignment.\tGo to the target facility’s sustainability Web page. Identify a significant sustainability issue for which the facility has defined a strategic objective, set a tactical goal, or undertaken an performance improvement initiative. The objective, goal, or initiative must include specific quantitative baseline and progress measurement factors.\tState the nature of the problem in qualitative and quantitative terms, its root cause, and the nature of the objective, goal, or initiative. See Appendix E for examples of typical root causes. Choose or modify an example to fit the facility’s situation.\tDescribe any formal and specific efforts the facility has or will undertake to successfully achieve the objective, goal, or initiative. If the facility has not yet proposed any such efforts, prescribe and describe one.\tEnter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management Worksheet.\tPart Two\tDefine high-level changes required to successfully achieve the objective, goal, or initiative.\tDefine high-level changes required to successfully implement and sustain the objective, goal or, initiative.\tEnter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management Worksheet.\u00a0Use supplementary sheets, if needed.\tRefer to Appendix F for helpful tips.\tPart Three\tOutline the instruction and training needed to implement the changes.\tOutline basic kinds of competency-based instruction and training at the executive, mid-level, professional, and worker levels to prepare the organization for the changes, and implement and sustain those changes.\tEnter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management Worksheet.\u00a0Use supplementary sheets, if needed.\tPart Four\tPrescribe how the target organization must test its preparedness to change.\tPrescribe how the target organization must test its preparedness to successfully implement changes prior to an official kick-off date.\tDescribe the kind of feedback loop needed to enable the organization to apply lessons learned from the preparedness testing back into the objective, goal, or initiative; various changes; or instruction and training.\tEnter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management Worksheet. Use supplementary sheets, if needed.\tPart Five\tPrescribe how the organization must actively manage changes once implemented.\tMonitor progress in implementing and sustaining changes, in qualitative and quantitative terms, and achieving the objective, goal, or initiative.\tEnter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management Worksheet.\u00a0Use supplementary sheets, if needed.\tPart Six\tAssess the risk of obstructionist behaviors that may threaten the initiative’s success.\tAssess types and the likelihood of obstruction behaviors for various categories of changes, using the Obstruction Behavior and Mitigation Worksheet.\tUtilize the worksheet to prescribe and assess the likely effectiveness of ways to avoid or minimize such problems.\tPart Seven\tPropose the initiative to the organization’s board of directors and executive team.\tCover the following points in a brief presentation that summarizes preceding work:\t\u00a0\u00a0Most pressing problem and root cause\u00b7\t\u00a0\u00a0A description of the objective, goal, or initiative to resolve\u00b7\tthe problem\t\u00a0\u00a0A brief overview of changes required to successfully achieve the objective, goal, or initiative\u00b7\t\u00a0\u00a0A brief overview of types of instruction and training needed to prepare all organizational levels to succeed in completing changes\u00b7\t\u00a0\u00a0A concise description of the proposed preparedness testing and feedback loop\u00b7\t\u00a0\u00a0A description of measures needed at all levels of the organization to actively manage changes to achieve and sustain the objective, goal, or initiative, with an emphasis of challenges presented by the most problematic changes\u00b7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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