Category: Leadership

Select a current, professional journal article that is at least three pages in length. You must write a critical assessment of this article for this assignment.

In preparation, follow the guidelines established below:

Find an article (that is less than five years old) that pertains to the important issues leaders or consultants will face when working with various types of teams, and discuss what methods are best to use for developing better teams for the future.

Be sure to annotate the author’s main points and thesis statement in your own words.

The critique should be approximately three pages in length (not counting the title and reference pages).

Part I: Introduction

Start the critique with the following information: the author’s name, the article title, and the author’s thesis statement.

Part II: Summary

Summarize the author’s purpose and main points, providing examples for clarity of understanding the author’s intended implications. Share key topics that support the author’s focus for this article. Provide ample details to enlighten the reader as to what the article is implying for audiences who are seeking research data about team building and/or the different types of teams (e.g., virtual, temporary, traditional, or innovative).

Part III: Review and Evaluate

To critically review the article, ask the following questions:

• What are the credentials/areas of expertise of the author?
• Did the author use appropriate methods to gather the evidence?
• Did the author use accurate evidence?
• Does the author’s use and interpretation of this evidence lead the reader to the same conclusion? Did the author build a logical argument?
• Is there other evidence that would support a counterargument?
• Was the author successful in making his/her point?

Part IV: Conclusion

State whether you agree with the author or not. Back up your decisions by stating your reasons. Give a general opinion of the work. Explain what you learned from reading the article and if you would recommend it to a friend/coworker.

Part V: Application

Predict some of the major challenges that teams will face in the future, and explain why the need for teamwork will remain high as it relates to the article. Identify a team-building activity that may be useful for managing teams in the future, and explain why.

Format your paper using APA style. Refer to the resources provided in the Student Portal. Use your own words and expressions to write the critique. Include citations and references as needed to avoid plagiarism. The paper should consist of three pages of body paragraphs, one title page, and one reference page (as the final page).

Please carefully read and follow all instructions and the rubric.

Overview

This Signature Assignment fulfills the Masters of Organizational Leadership Program Learning Outcome #5: Collaboration. Learning Outcome #5, Collaboration states: Evaluate personal competencies in collaboration and teaming.

Be sure to review all rubric criteria prior to submitting your assignment.

Directions

Step 1: This Collaboration Analysis Paper is your analysis of your experience and the Collaboration dynamics that occurred during and throughout this course. This assignment is an analysis of your experience on this team and teams that you have been involved in the past. This is an individual assignment, and not completed as a team.

Step 2: Use the questions below to help guide and create outline for this analysis on collaboration. Be sure to cite your sources and properly cite your ideas using the APA writing standards.

• What is collaboration? Provide a personal experience as well as a formal definition.
• Team Development Stages: Identify the developmental stages of teams and provide evidence of each.
• Team Roles: Was there evidence of team roles? What roles were evident? What role did you play? Do you have a history of taking-up this role? Explain.
• Decision Making: How did your team make decisions? What factors influenced the team decision-making process? How did the pace or process of decision making occur? Give examples.
• Conflict: How did your team deal with or confront conflict? What techniques did you and your team use to manage conflict? Give examples.
• Trust: Was there trust established within your team? Why or why not? What factors were present or missing that impacted the level of team trust?

Step 3: Your paper should be structured as follows:

• 5-7 pages
• Title page (not included in the page count)
• Introduction (.5 to 1 page): Within your introduction, you should address the concept of collaboration and team leadership and outline the structure of your paper.
• Application (2 to 3 pages): Clearly identify and discuss specific personal team experiences in regards to ‘best practices that can be used to address and improve personal team leadership and team collaboration behaviors now and in the future.
• Analysis (2-3 pages): Answer all of the questions listed in Step 2. As you answer the questions, apply critical thinking skills and reference the course text, while incorporating at least three additional scholarly sources (such as readings from the course).
• Conclusion (.5 page): Evaluate and synthesize information to draw valid conclusions supported by findings in the readings. Do not introduce any new thoughts or ideas in your conclusion.
• Reference Page: (not included in the page count): Include course text article and at least three additional scholarly sources.

Format

The final deliverable will be 5-7 pages of content in a double-spaced paper, presented in an MS Word document format. Please use proper APA Standards formatting and referencing, and use Times New Roman size 12 font.

Please use course text article as one the reference!

Overview This assignment is a continuation of the employee satisfaction survey results and GROW model template assignment that you completed in Module Two. Scenario The organization that you are a director of leadership and learning for has been conducting engagement surveys among its employees every two years to gain a deeper understanding of employees views on areas such as customer service, the organization’s overall strategy, job satisfaction, rewards and recognition, and training and development. The most recent survey was conducted this year, and the organization wants to carry out another survey in two years. Prompt Your task is to continue using your GROW model template you began in Module Two to complete the final three sections: Identified GapsObstacles Goal Revision A Way ForwardAction Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: In the Identified GapsObstacles section, describe obstacles that might prevent the focus areas you previously identified moving from current state to future state. Consider the following in your response: Skill gaps, organizational culture, and resources among other things In the Goal Revision section, for each of the goals you created previously, describe whether they need to be revised: For the goals that do need to be revised, provide a revision and explain your changes based on obstacles you identified above. For the goals that do not need to be revised, provide rationale for why this goal should remain the same. Support your response. In the A Way ForwardAction section, recommend an actionable step that should be taken in order to close the gap between current state and desired future state for each identified focus area and related goal. Your response should include the following for each actionable step: An explanation on what the step will entail Identification of stakeholders who will need to be involved Justification for how this step will help close the gap between current state and desired future state What to Submit Submit your answers in the GROW Model Template that you began working on in Module Two. If references are included, they should be cited in APA format. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

Create a powerpoint presentation with speaker notes since I have to record a video presentation. Apply Paul & Elder’s critical thinking tools, Stroh’s four-stage change process and Stringer & Aragon’s Look-Think-Act action research model to an existing problem of practice in your organization. Describe the components of systems thinking, the four-stage change process and the Look-Think-Act action research process to a chosen audience in your organization. Explain how these concepts can create opportunities for improvement within the organization. Create questions to encourage audience members engage in collaborative dialogue to identify how the information presented would address the problem of practice and create positive organizational change. Identifying appropriate strategic priorities requires a firm understanding of an organization’s political landscape. Knowing the key players and how to leverage relationships will help you develop a strategic plan that is meaningful to all stakeholders. Gaining stakeholder buy-in is the key to success when attempting to meet the strategic goals outlined on a balanced scorecard. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to gain insight into organizational power structures and their effects on organizational culture, policies, and communications. For this assessment, you will identify a problem of practice in your organization and then explain how Elder & Paul’s critical thinking tools, Stroh’s four-stage change process, and Stringer & Aragon’s ‘Look-Think-Act’ action research model could be used to address this challenge. At the end of the presentation, you will ask several questions of your audience to promote greater understanding of how each of these concepts might apply to their organization. Collaborating in Action Research Action research can be a collaborative approach to inquiry that provides a means of systematic action required to resolve problems of practice. Effective leaders use these questions to ensure ongoing systematic and collaborative inquiry: How do organizations use research to gather and record data in ways that extend organizational learning and communication? How do organizations employ interpretive processes to understand data and analyze the way the data reveals organizational features and patterns? How do learning organizations use research to plan and implement practical solutions to problems? Paul and Elder’s Critical Thinking Tools Read the following to learn how to improve all three components of thinking: analysis, evaluation, and rethinking. As you continue to read and reflect on this text, youll become more proficient at analyzing your own thought processes and better understanding where you stand in the hierarchy of effective critical thinking. Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2012). Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishing.Chapter 3, “Self-Understanding,” on pages 4555. Stroh’s Four-Stage Change Process These readings will help you develop an understanding of the four-stage change process that leaders can use to strategically to facilitate long-term organizational change. This begins in Stage 1 by building a foundation that includes engaging key stakeholders by establishing common ground and building collective capacities. In Stage 2, stakeholders are encouraged to face the current reality by understanding what is happening and their own role in constructing the current reality. Stage 3 focuses on helping stakeholders make an explicit choice about what they collectively want, and Stage 4 is intended to help stakeholders bridge the gap between their ultimate aspirations and the current reality. Consider how attending to each of these stages can help you become more sensitive to your own organizational dynamics when leading change and innovation. Stroh, D. P. (2015). Systems thinking for social change: A practical guide to solving complex problems, avoiding unintended consequences, and achieving lasting results. Chelsea Green Publishing. Introduction. Chapter 1, Why Good Intentions Are Not Enough. Chapter 5, “An Overview of the Four-Stage Change Process,” pages 7178. Chapter 6, “Building a Foundation for Change,” pages 7090. Chapter 7, “Facing Current Reality: Building Understanding Through Systems Mapping,” pages 91122. Stringer and Aragon’s Look-Think-Act Action Research Model Unlike experimental or quantitative research that looks for generalizable explanations related to a small number of variables, action research seeks to engage the complex dynamics involved in any social context. It uses continuing cycles of investigation designed to reveal effective solutions to issues and problems experienced in organizations. The following materials explain how action research can be a collaborative approach to inquiry that provides a means of systematic action required to resolve problems of practice. Focus on the components of these steps in the action research process: look (to gather relevant information and describe the situation), think (to explore, analyze, interpret, and explain), and act (to plan a course of action based on analysis and implement a solution). Stringer, E. T., & Ortiz Aragon, A. (2020). Action research (5th ed.). Sage. Chapter 1, “Understanding Action Research,” pages 442. Chapter 2, “Theoretical Foundations of Action Research,” pages 4379. Chapter 3, “Setting the Stage: Initiating an Action Research Process,” pages 86120. Chapter 4, “Look: Generating and Gathering Data,” pages 121161. Chapter 5, “Think: Reflecting and Analyzing,” pages 162194. Chapter 6, “Act: Implementing Practical Solutions,” pages 195223. Record a video presentation in which you apply Paul and Elder’s critical thinking tools, Strohs four-stage change process, and Stringer and Aragons Look-Think-Act action research model to an existing problem of practice in your organization. Describe the critical thinking tools, the four-stage change process and the action research model to a chosen audience in your organization. Explain how the leadership of the organization could follow these processes to identify and find solutions to a problem of practice. Create questions to encourage audience members to collaborate on how the information presented could be used to identify solutions for the problem of practice. Introduction Identify a problem of practice that currently exists in your organization. Identify and briefly describe your target audience (individual or group). The Application of Critical Thinking Tools Evaluate how critical thinking tools (three components of thinking) can provide clarity about the problem of practice. Use critical thinking tools to identify and provide clarity to the problem of practice. The Application of Four-Stage Change Process Explain how the four-stage change process could be applied to find solutions to the problem of practice. The Application of Stringer and Aragons Look-Think-Act Model Practical Recommendations Describe the Look-Think-Act action research model. Provide a set of specific practical recommendations about how an action research inquiry cycle could be followed to plan, implement, and evaluate solutions to the problem of practice. Questions to Promote Continuous Improvement and Organizational Learning Create a set of questions that will foster reflection and collaborative dialogue by the target audience about how the organizations leadership can use critical thinking tools, the four-stage change process, and the action research model to identify and implement solutions to the problem of practice. References Be sure to include and properly formatted References slide at the end of your presentation. Your assessment should also meet the following requirements: Presentation: Use PowerPoint or a similar program to develop your presentation. Recording: Use Kaltura or similar software to record your presentation. Presenter’s notes: Include a presentation script as an attached document. Length: 1015 content slides. References: As needed to support your ideas. Include a References slide at the end of the presentation. APA format: Use appropriate APA style and formatting for citations and references. What Im being graded on: Describes how Paul and Elders critical thinking tools could be used to clarify a problem of practice in the organization. Description includes very well-chosen quotations from the text and authors own highly insightful summary and interpretation. Analyzes how Strohs four-stage change process could be applied to generate solutions to the problem of practice in a detailed and compelling manner that includes specific examples. Explains how the organizational leadership could implement Stringer & Aragon’s Look-Think-Act action research model to plan, implement, and evaluate solutions to the problem of practice in a detailed and compelling manner that includes specific examples. Creates a set of relevant and specific questions that will foster inquiry and collaboration by the target audience about actions they can take to contribute to positive organizational change. Presentation is well-organized and professional in appearance. Uses a balance of text and graphics throughout presentation to illustrate main points effectively. Speaks clearly with expression and enthusiasm to engage audience.

n Topic 4, you narrowed down a specific research problem. In Topic 5, you found and summarized three articles about that problem. Now you will take the next to combine those articles to show why your problem is important to study. By synthesizing multiple sources, you will discover what needs to be known in current knowledge, what conflicting findings need resolution, and what evidence exists that your problem affects real people in significant ways. The purpose of this assignment is to build a compelling case for why your research problem deserves scholarly attention and how existing research confirms there is still work to be done.

General Requirements

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• Review the articles used to complete your Topic 5 assignment.
• Download “RES-815 Building Evidence for Your Research Problem” from the Topic Resources for this topic and use it to complete this assignment.
• This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. Refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for specific guidelines related to doctoral-level writing. The manual contains essential information on manuscript structure and content, clear and concise writing, and academic grammar and usage.
• You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Directions

Write a paper (1,000-1,250 words) that synthesizes the three articles used for the Topic 5 assignment. Using the headings provided, include the following in your paper:

1. Introduction: An introduction that provides an engaging opening statement. State your research problem from Topic 4. Tell the reader: “Current research reveals this problem is important because…” Then, preview the main reasons why this problem deserves study. Be sure to provide a thesis statement.
2. Body: The body section of the essay should consist of 3-4 paragraphs, each building a case for why your problem matters. Each paragraph should focus on one aspect of justification, such as the scope of who this problem affects, needs for further study, limitations in current knowledge, conflicting findings that need resolution, or real-world consequences that may be experienced if this problem is not addressed. Make sure each paragraph contains a topic sentence. The paragraphs should be supported with evidence from the articles you chose for the Topic 5 assignment and have a transition sentence to the next paragraph.
3. Conclusion: A conclusion that confirms your thesis statement and provides a brief summary of why the three sources together make a compelling case for studying the problem. State what specific aspects of the problem most need investigation. Identify what your research could contribute that current studies have not addressed.
4. Reflection: Reflect on the process of synthesizing an argument from research articles, and document your thoughts. Discuss the challenges that you encountered building a case for your study. How did synthesizing these articles strengthen your conviction that this problem needs study? What specific new knowledge could your future research address? How might your faith perspective shape your approach to solving this problem? What did you learn about how to organize an argument? What has surprised you? What new perspectives will you carry forward?

Please review all 3 attachments. Thanks.

For this assignment, you will create a professional-looking PowerPoint presentation that will

assist you in introducing your new coaching practice to the world.

INSTRUCTIONS

Scenario:

You have enrolled and completed a coaching program and now enter the world as a coach. Using

visual representations, create a powerpoint slideshow with 20-30 slides (no more, no less), which

demonstrates your coaching practice to the world. Very few words, mostly images on the slides.

(Feel free to insert a couple of descriptive sentences below the slides in the notes section in order

to capture the essences of the image.) Ensure that all slides include the link from whence they

came in a reference slide.

PowerPoint Requirements:

Title Slide, Visual Content Slides, Closing Slide (Call to Action), References slide(s). Every

image or verbiage that is not your own requires documentation on the references slide.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

Film in Action Journal

Each Film in Action Journal will have the student reflect on four main components of the film viewed for that week. The student will analyze the background, structure/form, theme, and the leadership challenges presented. These components will be used in the final Leadership in Film paper.

Each Film in Action Journal will have the student reflect on the main components of the film viewed for that week. The student will analyze the structure/form, theme, and leadership presented. These components will be used in the final Leadership in Film paper. The following should be addressed in the Film in Action Journal:

BACKGROUND

1. Do you feel there was any viewpoint or focus of the director that created a bias? If so, how was it presented?

STRUCTURE / FORM

1. Why do you suppose the film starts in the way that it does?

2. Are there any (scenes, images, dialogue) that are repeated? What do they introduce or reinforce?

3. What 2-3 sequences are most important in the film? Why?

4. Is sound used in any vivid ways to enhance the film? (i.e. Enhance drama, heighten tension, disorient the viewer, etc.)

5. How does the film use color or light/dark to suggest tone and mood?

6. Are there any striking uses of perspective (camera angle, seeing the situation from the followers’ or outsiders’ point of view, etc.)? How does this contribute to the overall film meaning? Note: I’m not sure what should go here – contribute to the overall leader efficiency? leader position? leader effectiveness?

THEME/ LEADERSHIP

1. As applicable, speak to the following as it related to the film. Give examples as necessary for support: Effective use of human resources

a. Human motivation and behavior patterns

b. Conflict management and resolution

c. Group functioning and process

d. The psychology of decision-making

e. The importance of recognizing, analyzing, and managing change

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES

1. Who do you identify as the leader or leaders of the film (If Any)?

2. Does the film present a clear point-of-view of leadership? How or how not?

3. How does this film relate to what you have read or experienced about leadership (in class or on your own)?

4. What leadership challenges do you identify in the film? (Use your text for examples if needed and to explore the proper leadership terminology)

5. Did the organization help or hinder with the leadership challenges? Support your answer.

6. What type of leadership style was exhibited throughout the film? Did it change or stay the same?

7. How did the director portray leadership throughout the film? (Camera angles, costume, music, characters, etc.)

8. What part of the film do you consider most powerful? Why?

please carefully read and follow all instructions and the rubric.

1. Professional Intention: How well did you address the intentions you had for this course? In other words, how did the course help you achieve or accomplish your professional goals?
2. Academic Intention: How well did you address the academic intentions you had for this course? In other words, how did the course help you achieve or accomplish your academic goals?
3. Team Intention: How well did you address your team leadership goals that you had for yourself? In other words, in what ways did you develop or enhance your team leadership skills and abilities throughout this course?

The purpose of this assignment is to critically assess various existing organizational change models and develop a tailored change model that aligns with the unique cultural and strategic needs of the organization identified in Topic 3. This model will serve as a strategic tool to facilitate and integrate necessary changes in response to internal or external forces impacting organizational success.

Research the various change models used by organizations today. After assessing various models, select an appropriate change model that is tailored to the organization selected in Topic 3 and that will work within the organization’s culture. This model should serve to implement a strategic process that can help your organization integrate a change and respond to the internal or external driving forces that affect organizational success.

Submit a single-page visual infographic that represents your selected change model. Specifically, this change model visual should:

1. Define and highlight its components.
2. Communicate the appropriateness of selected change model to work within the culture of the organization.
3. Demonstrate the ability of the selected change model to respond to internal or external driving forces that affect organizational success and requirements.
4. Define how the selected change model provides clear communication of the model to essential stakeholders.

Submit a Word document with either a screenshot or a link to the completed project.