Strategic Planning for Successful Outcomes: The Big Picture
As a leader, you have to think big! In addition to the daily tasks of nurturing those you lead and modeling the servant’s role, you must maintain a laser focus on your organization’s transcendent goals, marshal the energy of all contributors and participants, and strategize ways to achieve successful outcomes.
Bryson’s (2021) strategies are universal in their approach and can be broadly applied across multiple contexts. Successful leaders anticipate complex interactions and uncertainty across the globe and prepare for fluctuation through strategic planning. Strategic thinking and planning provide stability for human services organizations in the global, multicultural context. This week, you will apply strategic thinking to an organizational leadership plan to solve problems requiring adaptable strategies.
Reference
Bryson, J. M. (2021). The future of strategizing by public and nonprofit organizations. PS: Political Science & Politics, 54(1), 9–18.
TO DO LIST
What You Need To Know: Focus on future strategizing by public and nonprofit organizations.
Assignment: Describe your selected human services organization and identified leadership theory while integrating theories and models of practice for the organization as related to social, cultural, and global practices that address diversity, equity, and inclusion and make recommendations for more effective leadership practice for the organization and the community it serves.
Assignment Overview
In this assignment, you will consolidate revised elements from prior assignments to describe your selected human services organization and identified leadership theory while integrating theories and models of practice for the organization as related to social, cultural, and global practices that address diversity, equity, and inclusion and make recommendations for more effective leadership practice for the organization and the community it serves.
What You Need to Know
The Future of Strategizing
Bryson, J. M. (2021). The future of strategizing by public and nonprofit organizations. PS: Political Science & Politics, 54(1), 9–18.
Review this article in preparation for this week’s assignment.
Assignment Instructions
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP PLAN
Overview
In this assignment, you will consolidate elements from your assignments in Weeks 3, 5, and 7 into a final assignment, an organizational leadership plan, for your selected organization. In this plan, you will make recommendations for more effective leadership practices that create a richly diverse organization that aligns with the organization’s strategic plan and implements policies that sustain an inclusive work environment where an understanding and acceptance of all is deeply embedded in the organizational structure. In adapting elements from previous assignments, you must make improvements based on feedback you received from your instructor and peers.
Your organizational leadership plan will describe your selected human services organization and identified leadership theory. You will integrate theories and models of practice for the organization as related to social, cultural, and global practices that address diversity, equity, and inclusion and make recommendations for more effective leadership practice for the organization and the community it serves.
Instructions
Develop a plan that is designed to promote equity, cultural competence, and inclusion for implementing social, cultural, and global practices into your selected organization. Your plan must include:
An introduction to your selected human services organization. (Week 3.)
An analysis of the value of your selected leadership theory for contemporary and future practice as it applies to your selected organization. (Week 3.)
A literature review in which you integrate theories and models of practice for the organization as related to social, cultural, and global practices that address diversity, equity, and inclusion. (Week 5.)
An evaluation of how the leadership theory you selected for your organization might apply to achieving a culturally competent, inclusive, and supportive organizational environment committed to equity related to race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or age. (Week 7.)
The development of a plan designed to promote equity, cultural competence, and inclusion for implementing social, cultural, and global practices into your organization. (Week 7.) Your plan must include:
An alignment of the organization’s strategic plan with a mission, values statement, and goals that foster organizational awareness of and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Develop policies that sustain an inclusive work environment where understanding and acceptance of all is deeply embedded in the organizational structure.
Include recommendations for measurable change processes that evaluate how the organization might achieve cultural competence and how social, cultural, legal, or economic factors influence the change processes.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
References: A minimum of eight references from scholarly journals or your textbook.
Be sure to find, evaluate, and discuss relevant academic, scholarly, peer-reviewed sources for your assignment using the Reviewing the Literature Campus page.
APA formatting: Headings that define the sections of the paper, resources, and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting. See the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance.
Length of paper: 8–10 typed, double-spaced pages, excluding the cover page and references.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Submit your plan in the assignment area as a Word attachment.
SCORING GUIDE
Your work will be evaluated using this criteria.
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Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment , you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 2: Analyze the value of leadership theory for contemporary and future practices in human services organizations.
Provide an introduction to a selected human services organization and a selected leadership theory as it applies to practice in the organization.
Analyze the value of a specific leadership theory for contemporary and future practice in a selected organization.
Competency 3: Integrate theories and models to evolve the practice of leadership in human services organizations within social, cultural, and global environments.
Create a literature review that integrates theories and models of practice for a selected organization as related to social, cultural, and global practices that address diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Competency 4: Examine multidisciplinary aspects of social, political, cultural, legal, and economic factors affecting social, cultural, and global collaborative leadership practices through current real-world case studies.
Evaluate how the selected leadership theories might apply to achieving a culturally competent, inclusive, and supportive environment for a selected organization.
Develop a plan to promote equity, cultural competence, and inclusion for social, cultural, and global practices into a selected organization.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others consistent with expectations for members of the human services profession.
Write in a manner consistent with the expectations of the human services profession.