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Question:

Competency

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:

• Demonstrate effective management skills and practices in diverse, distributed, and collaborative work environments
• Explain the interrelatedness of the functions and forms of organizations

Scenario

Imagine you are a new manager at the SNHU Pet Supply Company. The company has grown from a small, local pet-supply company into a large organization with locations in Manchester, New Hampshire and Denver, Colorado. It also employs remote staff. The manager you are replacing was with the team for two years and left on negative terms, which exacerbated an already concerning team culture.

You have been asked to present a management plan that addresses identified areas of concern, rebuilds the team’s culture, and aligns organizational practices to leadership.

Leadership has provided you with a management brief that outlines the key pieces of information you will need in order to make informed recommendations.

Directions

Use course resources and the information provided in the Project One Management Brief (located in the Supporting Materials section) to develop recommendations that will meet the needs of your new team and align with your organization’s mission, vision, culture statement, and goals.

Use the Presentation Template to create presentation slides that highlight key pieces of information, and use the Speaker Notes Template to outline what you would say when presenting your recommendations in a future meeting with leadership. Both templates are located in the What to Submit section.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Team Management
   1. Leadership and Management: Describe leadership and management practices that you feel would be best suited to manage the team. Explain why you believe these practices are in alignment with the organization’s mission, culture, and goals, as well as how they would be effective in improving the team’s culture.
   2. Followership: Explain how you would leverage your strengths as a leader to strengthen the team’s effectiveness and culture. Also explain how your strengths could be used to develop followership within your team.
   3. Decision-Making Models: Describe decision-making models that you believe will be the most effective for the team and management approach and their alignment with the organization, as well as how they would be effective in improving the team’s culture.
   4. Emotional Intelligence: Describe considerations for ensuring your management practices are emotionally intelligent and inclusive of diverse perspectives, needs, and roles within your team. Explain why you believe they are in alignment with the organization and how they would be effective in improving the team’s culture.
2. Communication and Collaboration Across Functions
   1. Forms and Functions: Explain how the various forms and functions of the organization impact the team; also explain how the team impacts the various forms and functions across the organization.
   2. Communication Practices: Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the current communication practices being used across functions, and recommend better ways to communicate that meet the organization’s needs.
   3. Organizational Mission, Vision, and Goals: Explain the general purpose of organizational missions, culture statements, and goals and what these three things say about the way an organization should operate. Take organizational structure, leadership and management approaches, and diversity and inclusion practices into account when considering an operation.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

Template: Presentation Template PPT
Your presentation should be between 7 to 10 slides in length, not including the title and references slides. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Template: Speaker Notes Template Word Document
Use complete sentences to outline what you would say in a verbal presentation. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Supporting Materials

The following resource supports your work on the project:

Reading: Project One Management Brief PDF
This document provides an overview of the team’s current management and leadership practices and its existing team culture. Review this information to complete your project.

A text-only version of the image in this resource is available: Project One Management Brief Text-Only Version Word Document.

Project One Rubric

Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Team Management: Leadership and Management	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes leadership and management practices best suited to managing the team, explaining why these practices are in alignment with the organization’s mission, culture, and goals, as well as how they would be effective in improving the team’s culture	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include identifying practices that are more closely aligned to the team’s needs or adding detail to explanations	Does not attempt criterion	15
Team Management: Followership	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Explains how leadership strengths can be leveraged to improve the team’s effectiveness and culture, as well as how these strengths can be used to develop followership within the team	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include further explaining leadership’s impact on team effectiveness and culture or further explaining how followership can be developed within the team	Does not attempt criterion	10
Team Management: Decision-Making Models	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes decision-making models that will be the most effective for the team and management approach and their alignment with the organization, as well as how they would be effective in improving the team’s culture	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing further descriptions of or justifications for the selected decision-making models	Does not attempt criterion	10
Team Management: Emotional Intelligence	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes considerations for ensuring new management practices are emotionally intelligent and inclusive of diverse perspectives, needs, and roles within the team, explaining why these practices are in alignment with the organization as well as how they would be effective in improving the team’s culture	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include identifying more appropriate emotionally intelligent considerations or further explaining the alignment between emotional intelligence and the organization	Does not attempt criterion	10
Communication and Collaboration Across Functions: Forms and Functions	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Explains how the various forms and functions of the organization impact the team; also explains how the team impacts various forms and functions across the organization	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include further explaining the interconnectedness of organizational forms and functions	Does not attempt criterion	10
Communication and Collaboration Across Functions: Communication Practices	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes the strengths and weaknesses of the current communication practices being used across functions and recommends better ways to communicate that meet the organization’s needs	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include further analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the current communication practices or recommending more appropriate improvements	Does not attempt criterion	15
Communication and Collaboration Across Functions: Organizational Mission, Vision, and Goals	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Explains the general purpose of organizational missions, culture statements, and goals and explains what these three things say about the way an organization should operate	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing further explaining how organizational missions, culture statements, and goals both direct and are influenced by operations	Does not attempt criterion	15
Articulation of Response	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability	Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas	10
Citations and Attributions	Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errors	Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors	Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors	Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution	5
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