Overview The project is a leadership case study analysis. You will be given a specific case study that centers on leadership strategies to form the foundation of your analysis. Using this case study, you must apply the theories and concepts from the course to interpret and formulate answers to certain guiding questions. Finally, you must create a professional presentation that presents your entire case study analysis effectively. In the presentation, you will present your findings and recommendations, including answers to all guiding questions, as a consultant would present an analysis to a company. The project is divided into three milestones.
This project will assess your mastery with respect to the following course outcomes:
Evaluate leadership strategies for the extent to which they reflect flexibility, promote sustainability, foster effective change management, and further organizational goals for a given context Select appropriate, innovative leadership strategies for solving authentic problem scenarios Assess the effectiveness of and recommend modifications to leadership techniques based on employee research and performance metrics data Prompt Use the case study of Fortuga Artisans found in the module resources for the following prompt.
For your leadership case study analysis, you must create a professional presentation and apply the theories and concepts from the course to interpret and formulate answers to the following guiding questions:
What are the problems and issues discussed in the case study? Illustrate each with specific examples and connect them back to course principles. How did or how should the organization employ leadership strategies that reflect flexibility, promote sustainability, foster effective change management, and further organizational goals? Defend your evaluation and choices. What is your assessment plan? Describe your plan based on the leadership strategies that have been employed as well as any additional strategies you recommend be employed. Include a plan for assessment that incorporates employee feedback and performance metrics data. What should be measured? How should it be measured to ensure validity and reliability? How should that data be interpreted and acted upon? Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Leadership Strategies: Evaluation – Using the case study, describe the overall leadership strategies employed. Specifically address the following: Flexibility – To what extent does the leadership strategy of the company within the case study reflect flexibility? What evidence is given for the basis of your reasoning? Sustainability – Does the leadership strategy promote sustainability? Why? Change management – Does the leadership strategy foster effective change management? Why or why not? Organizational goals – Does the leadership strategy further organizational goals? Give examples. Leadership Strategies: Selection – Within the case, what are the leadership problems? Select appropriate leadership styles, approaches, and strategies for solving the problem(s) based on the following: Appropriateness – Which leadership strategies are appropriate for use in solving the problems identified within the case study? Discuss their appropriateness in terms of style, approach, and strategy. Innovation – Are the leadership strategies innovative? Why or why not? Assessment Plan – Develop an assessment plan based on leadership strategies that have previously been employed and any recommended changes to be employed. This assessment plan should include the following: Effectiveness – Assess the effectiveness of the current leadership strategies based on the following: Employee research Performance metric data Recommendations – Propose an assessment plan that incorporates employee feedback and performance metrics data, addresses the data to be collected, discusses how to ensure validity and reliability, and incorporates interpretation and future actions. Note: Principles of an effective presentation can be found at the end of this document.
Milestones Milestone One: Problems and Issues Submit a 2 page paper. What are the problems and issues discussed in the case study? Establish a context by providing an overview of leadership style, approach, and strategy. Then illustrate each problem in the case with specific examples and connect them to leadership style, approach, and strategy. The format should be a Word document written in APA style and cited appropriately.
Milestone Two: Leadership Strategy In Module Six, submit a 3 page paper identifying the leadership strategies that were employed by the organization described in the case study, how they were employed, and any additional strategies that could be employed to reflect flexibility, promote sustainability, foster effective change management, and further organizational goals. Explain how your recommended strategies should be employed. Defend your evaluation and choices. The format should be a Word document written in APA style and cited appropriately.
Milestone Three: Assessment Plan In Module Eight, submit a 3 page paper that describes your assessment plan based on the leadership strategies that have been employed as well as any additional strategies you have recommended be employed. Be sure to include employee feedback and performance metrics data. What should be measured? How should it be measured to ensure validity and reliability? How should that data be interpreted and acted upon? The format should be a Word document written in APA style and cited appropriately.
Final Product: Leadership Case Study Analysis: Final Professional Presentation Submit the final leadership case study analysis. This is submitted as a professional presentation. It should be a completed product that meets all of the critical elements outlined above. – Please use the same information from the other 3 papers.
What to Submit
The final presentation must include a minimum of 14 slides , including opening and closing slides (one slide should be included as an introduction and one slide should be included as a closing slide). Any resources used to support the presentation must be properly cited in APA format. There is no requirement on the number of resources.
Please attach all papers separately as described above (should be 3) and the final is the presentation using the same information from the papers.