gcu ldr620: Strategic Management and Socially Conscious Organization Presentation
Week 3 assignment
Strategic Management
and Socially Conscious Organization Presentation
Create a 7-10 slide presentation with speaker notes on an
organization that exhibits characteristics of a socially conscience
organization. Cite the mission and vision in your presentation. Explain how the
mission and vision are translated into implementation of strategy. Be sure to
provide specific examples.
As a manager, your role is to carry out the mission and
vision of the organization in daily life, ensuring alignment between managerial
tactics and the organization’s mission and vision. Examine the organization’s
alignment through the following concepts: corporate social responsibility,
corporate culture, personal ethics, leadership, followership, and competitive
advantage.
APA format is required for essays only. Solid academic
writing is always expected. For all assignment delivery options, documentation
of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Week 4 assignment
Strategic Planning:
SWOT Analysis and Goals
Strategic planning within organizations provides a plethora
of benefits to the organization including meeting goals specified in the plan
and contributing to the long-term success of an organization. Refer to Exhibit
8.3: The Strategic Management Process, located in Chapter 8 of the Management
textbook.
For this assignment, select either your own organization or
one you know enough about to complete a series of assignments related to
strategic planning for a proposal you would like to implement. The same
organization will be used in the following assignments:
Strategic Planning: Strategy Map (Topic 4)
Strategic Planning: Action Plan (Topic 5)
Strategic Planning: Communication Plan (Topic 7)
Strategic Planning: Evaluation (Topic 8)
Strategic Planning: Presentation (Topic 8)
Once you have selected the organization, identify a
strategic goal through preforming a SWOT analysis within your sphere of
influence. For example, if you are not currently in a management or leadership
position, it is acceptable to focus on a more focused area of your organization
you are currently in a position to impact. If you are a classroom teacher,
perhaps you see opportunities for improving access to technology in your
district. If you are a nurse, perhaps you see opportunities to improve
communication processes in your department, etc.
A SWOT analysis is part of strategy formulation that leads
to goal setting and then progresses to the development of a strategic plan. Be
sure to follow the criteria for effective goals as illustrated to Exhibit 7.5,
located in Chapter 7 of the Management textbook.
Complete a SWOT analysis using the “SWOT Analysis”
template. Consider the following guiding questions as you complete the SWOT
Analysis:
What are the recognized strengths of your identified area?
What does your identified area do better than other
companies?
What unique capabilities or resources does you identified
area possess?
What do other companies consider to be your strength?
What are the recognized weaknesses of your identified area?
What do competitors do better than your identified area?
What areas can be improved at your current position?
What do other companies consider to be your weakness?
What trends or conditions impact the company in a positive
way?
What opportunities exist for the identified area?
What trends or conditions impact the identified area in a
negative way?
What is the competition doing that may have an impact on
your identified area?
Does your identified area have solid financial support?
What impact does your weakness have on the threats your
identified area faces?
These questions are samples of what you may need to address
in your SWOT Analysis. Using the SWOT analysis results, develop at least one
strategic goal. Submit both the completed SWOT analysis document and the
strategic goal.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is
expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Week 5 assignment
Strategic Planning:
Strategy Map
The Strategic Planning: SWOT Analysis assignment completed
in Topic 4 helped you identify a strategic goal within your sphere of
influence. This assignment asks you to visually represent the cause-and-effect
relationship among goals, operations, and stakeholders. In addition, this
assignment seeks to examine the impact on various operational processes within
the selected organization
According to your Management textbook, a strategy map
“is a visual representation of the key drivers of an organization’s
success, showing the cause-and-effect relationship among goals and plans.”
Refer to Exhibit 7.4 in the textbook. A strategy map seeks to align
organizational goals into strategy and provide clear direction for the
organization.
Review the mission statement of your selected organization.
Prior to creating a strategy map, identify your stakeholders. Complete a
stakeholder analysis to identify and prioritize the various stakeholders. Refer
to the “Stakeholder Analysis” resource from Mindtools and complete
all steps.
Based on your strategic goal, create a strategy map using
Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, or other software.
Include only the required perspectives (financial, customer, internal, and
learning and growth) that pertain to the strategic goal in your map. The
cause-and-effect relationships are described by connecting arrows.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is
expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Week 6 assignment
Benchmark – Strategic
Planning: Action Plan
Use your completed strategy map to formulate
functional-level strategy for the primary business functions included in your
plan. Functional-level strategies are the action plans used by departments
within organizations to support the execution of business-level strategy at the
managerial level. Create a 500-750 word action plan that addresses the
following:
Identify which management tactics and strategies you will
implement to meet your strategic goals for each of the stakeholders,
departments, or business functions impacted by your plan: MBO, MBM, single-use
or standing plans, competitive advantage, contingency planning, building
scenarios, crisis planning, and innovation.
Provide an explanation of how you will apply managerial
decision-making methods throughout your action plan.
Which business functions will be impacted by your action
plan? What tactics will you use to manage implementation across business
functions? What can you do to enhance collaboration/cross-functionality to
ensure the success of your plan?
Identify leadership strategies you plan to implement
throughout the execution of your action plan. In particular, explain which
strategies you would implement to foster team collaboration among the multiple
stakeholders who must collaborate to successfully implement the plan. Why do
you think these will be successful?
While APA format is not required for the body of this
assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources
should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the
APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Week 7 assignment
Benchmark – Strategic
Planning: Communication Plan
Using your completed action plan, create a 500-750 word
communication plan for disseminating your action plan to all of the
stakeholders. Which strategies do you plan to utilize and why? Your plan should
demonstrate how you plan to use formal and informal communication channels to
implement the plan.
In addition, explain how the communication plan addresses
what you are hoping to achieve with your strategic goal. What leadership or
managerial skills will you draw upon in implementing this plan?
While APA format is not required for the body of this
assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources
should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the
APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Week 8 assignment
Strategic Plan:
Presentation
Effective oral communication is essential in the business
setting, especially when it comes to achieving buy-in for significant, complex,
or costly change. To practice your oral communication skills, create a 5-7
minute oral presentation of your strategic plan for your manager or director or
other essential stakeholders whose approval you would require. Be sure to
address the “why” and “how” for your strategic plan in the
presentation, providing all the necessary details your audience needs to make
an informed decision. Record yourself presenting the plan using YouTube or any
other video site that allows you to post your video. Adhere to the following:
Be sure to demonstrate appropriate and meaningful
professionalism for the intended audience which include proper pace, tone,
inflection, pronunciation, and meaningful gestures that convey clarity.
Be sure the audio included in the video is clear and free of
technological glitches that diminish the audio quality.
Be sure the visual appearance of the video is free of
technological glitches that diminish the visual quality.
Please refer to the “How to Share a Private YouTube
Video” if you are concerned with privacy issues.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is
expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Week 8 assignment
Strategic Plan:
Evaluation
In order to complete your strategic plan, select the methods
you will use to evaluate how your strategic goal is being met. Include specific
metrics that will be used to evaluate the success of the implementation of the
plan. What types of controls will you use? Provide your response in 250-500
words.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is
expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
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