Leading in Organizations

  Enhancing Team and Work Group Collaboration Working together in groups requires cooperating and collaborating with others. Explain the types of teams that an organization may use to perform cooperative work. Discuss the process that can change a group of individual performers into a team.  

Discussion

Identify a current change in an organization with which you are familiar. Alternatively, identify a current public issue about which “something must be done”. In relation to the change issue, think about what sense-making changes might need to be enacted and how you would go about this. Assess this in terms of the eight elements … Read more

Learning Organizations

 D6 discusses why learning organizations must document results and provided guiding principles for program evaluation and advice on what to measure, how to collect and analyze the information, and, especially important, how to market the results. Choose an organization you believe to be a learning organization, provide a justification as to why the organization is … Read more

Bringing Innovation to an Organization

The goal of which is to persuade the organization to hire you to implement your innovative structures and strategies.  PowerPoint 8-slides with speaker notes: Organization- Bank of America 1.An overview of the organization’s history. 2.An assessment of the innovative culture within the organization. 3.A concise personal vision that describes yourself as an innovative leader. 4.An overview … Read more

Planning in an Organization

Every organization should establish a plan to move forward. For this week’s discussion, select a real organization. (It can be your organization or any organization that you know.) Provide the following information: Briefly describe the industry in which the organization operates. Share the mission of the organization. (It is important to use the real mission … Read more

Case #1

Tesla, Inc. is an American automotive company that specializes in electric car manufacturing. The company and Elon Musk, it’s current CEO, has been an innovator in the United States automobile industry.  Tesla has used technology as one of it’s driving factors. They provide online software updates and have open source technology, to an extent. Tesla’s … Read more

COnclusion

In this discussion question you have the opportunity to be creative and to relate what you have learned to your professional lives. Please explore and critically think about some of the learning outcomes and concepts presented in this course. Please effectively communicate how you would lead an organization (or a group of people within the … Read more