Understanding the importance of organizational change and how leadership impacts change is part of the process of working successfully with change. Listening to organizational stories based on leadership styles, roles, and images from change agents$/$leaders is important to learning how change may or may not be successful within an organization. Change agents$/$leaders follow at least one, and often more, of six style images $($found in Chapter $2$ of your text$).$ These six images of change managers$/$leaders have three core uses:

They highlight a variety of assumptions change agents make about change and increase the awareness of different interpretations of change.

They draw attention to the dominant images of change within an organization.

They highlight a range of perspectives available to change agents.

The six images of change