Instruction
Instructions:
You have been introduced to and practiced the skills needed to be effective managers and effective leaders. For your final assignment in this course, you will develop a plan for guiding and developing the members of your team. Following are the key elements you must address in your plan:
Describe the current situation for your team. This can be the actual situation for an existing team, or you may provide a fictitious situation description. This description will be the basis for the development of the rest of this assignment
Include an assessment of current conditions within the team, including the motivation and morale of team members, and your personal leadership strengths
Analyze the situation and provide recommendations for improving constructive feedback to your team and to individual team members
Evaluate and choose the communication techniques you would use to deliver key messages, both to the team as a whole and to individual team members
Evaluate and choose the motivation techniques you would use with, or model to, your team
Identify and evaluate those factors that are not under your control. Limit your evaluations and choices to only those things that you can control
Describe the desired future state of your team. Explain how your leadership choices and proposed actions regarding those choices will help your team reach that desired future state
Compose a six-page paper describing your plan and addressing the elements listed above (page count does not include the title page, abstract, reference page, or appendix/appendices). Use at least two outside sources to support your work.
When you have completed your assignment, arrange at time to meet with your manager(s) for 30 minutes. Summarize and present what you have learned in the course, the elements of your personal leadership plan, and obtain feedback on the conclusions you have reached and the plan you have developed.
Format Instructions: Your paper must be double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, with 1” margins on all sides. It must consist of a title page, abstract, body of the paper, and a reference page. A running header and page numbers must be included per APA style guidelines. Level I, Level II, and Level III headings must be used in the body of the paper. An appendix (or appendices) must be included after the reference page. The appendix/appendices should contain materials to support your answers to the questions posed in this paper. Since outside sources are required on this assignment, APA style in-text citations must be included in the body of the paper. The guidelines for In-Text citations may be found here. You are expected to follow all APA style guide requirements.