Project Part Guidelines

Final projects: Final Project Part I: Self-Assessment Investigation, due in Module Three, and Final Project Part II: Leadership Assessment, due in Module Nine. The course has a milestone assignment in each of the following modules: Two, Four, Five, and Seven.

You will select a corporate or organizational leader who could be a personal role model. The professional self-assessment taken during the course will be the lens through which you will select this leader.

You will research the leader's professional career track, management and leadership styles, team-building skills, organizational vision and culture, and problem- solving and conflict-management abilities. You will then compare aspects of your own leadership style to the leadership style of the person you selected.

In the milestone research and writing process leading to Final Project Part II: Leadership Assessment, you completed a thorough analysis of your leadership traits through the Strengths Finder results and compared these results with the cognitive factors associated with leadership effectiveness.

You explained how leadership strengths and traits contributed to the effectiveness of an organization. You also evaluated teams and organizational structure in the actions of your chosen leader with his or her organization and executive team, and evaluated best practices with teams used by the leader.

You reviewed your chosen leader's organizational vision and how your leader developed the organization's strategic plan, and methods not employed by the leader in the planning process. You analyzed evidence of your leader's personal, political, and positional power, assessing how the leader used that power to structure the organization, thus creating culture.

You reviewed your own knowledge, skills, and abilities related to problem-solving and your chosen leader's problem-solving abilities. You evaluated methods and strategies used by the leader and explained which tools, methods, and strategies you would use/emulate and which you would avoid.

You reviewed your own conflict management and negotiation skills and analyzed your leader's skills related to conflict management and negotiation. You analyzed which of techniques of the chosen leader you would use/emulate and how they would help you.

In Final Project Part II, you will finalize and submit a paper or presentation comprises all the milestone submissions with edits based on instructor feedback, and develop a conclusion of your findings. You will base the conclusion on the results of your self-assessment and your research on your selected leader.

You will address how you may continue to improve and build upon your leadership skills and areas for development. Refer to the Final Project Part II Rubric (below) for submission guidelines.

Final Project Part II: Leadership Assessment addresses the following course outcomes:

Analyze results of professional self-assessment tools for informing personal appreciation of leadership skills and areas of professional development

Evaluate best practices for planning and staffing in intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship environments for organizing teams by functions

Recommend strategic planning methods that motivate individuals and teams to align with organizational visions

Analyze elements of personal, political, and positional power as tools for effecting change in organizational culture

Determine appropriate tools, methods, or strategies for organizational problem-solving and decision-making in leadership and management contexts

Select appropriate conflict management and negotiation skills for effectively communicating and resolving organizational behavioral disputes

Final Project Part II Prompt

Your Final Project Part II paper/presentation should answer the following prompt: Finalize and submit a paper or presentation comprising all the knowledge and material gained from the three milestone submissions with edits based on instructor feedback, and develop a conclusion for your findings.

You will base the conclusion on the results of your self-assessment and your research on your selected leader. You will address how you may continue to improve and build upon your leadership skills and areas for development.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Teams

A. Assess how the leader structured the organization, describing the best practices for planning and staffing he or she employed to organize teams. In other words, what leadership or management style did the leader use to organize teams by function?

B. Assess how the leader organized his or her executive team, describing the best practices for planning and staffing that he or she employed in organizing the executive team. Consider questions such as these in your response: How did the leader use personal power to develop the executive team? Whom did the leader surround herself/himself with? Did the leader consider specific skill sets, functions, or roles in the organization of the executive team?

C. Evaluate the best practices used by the leader to structure the organization and develop the executive team. Consider questions such as these in your evaluation: How did these best practices develop and improve the organization? How did the best practices influence the organization's culture and retain top talent?

II. Organizational Vision

A. How did the leader develop the strategic plan for the organization? Was it written by the leader, a team, or a consultant, for example?

B. What was the leader's organizational vision? What strategies did the leader use to motivate individuals and teams to align with the vision?

C. Recommend strategic planning methods not employed by the leader that could be used to motivate individuals and teams to align with the vision. Why would these methods be effective? In other words, what alternative strategic planning methods could the leader have used, and why?

III. Organizational Culture

A. Analyze the evidence of personal, political, and positional power in the leadership style and background of your selected leader.

B. Assess how the leader structured organizational culture using personal, political, and positional power. Consider questions such as these in your response: How did the leader involve employees in the organizational culture? Was there a focus on employee engagement to retain top talent?

C. How did the leader's use of power as a tool effect change in the organization?

IV. Problem-Solving

A. Based on the results of your professional self-assessment, what skills, abilities, and knowledge related to problem-solving and decision-making do you possess?

B. Analyze the leader's problem-solving and decision-making skills and abilities. Support your analysis with the tools, methods, or strategies he or she used to solve problems and make decisions.

C. What tools, methods, or strategies for problem-solving and decision-making does your leader use that you want to emulate? What tools,
methods, or strategies for problem-solving does your leader use that you would like to avoid? Explain your response.

V. Conflict Management
A. Based on the results of your professional self-assessment, what skills, abilities, and knowledge related to conflict management and negotiation do you possess?

B. Analyze the leader's conflict management and negotiation techniques and skills. How did the leader use these techniques to effectively
communicate and resolve disputes? Support your response with specific examples from the leader's career track.

C. What techniques or skills for conflict management and negotiation does your leader use that you want to emulate? If you emulate these
techniques or skills, how will they help you to communicate effectively and resolve organizational behavioral disputes?

VI. Conclusion

Based on the results of your self-assessment and your research on your selected leader, how may you continue to improve and build upon your leadership skills and areas for development?

Attachment:- Vision and Culture.rar