Instructions
Write a paper about the best practices for managing groups and leading teams to influence team effectiveness including establishing a shared vision.
Focus on evidence-based approaches for leadership behaviors and effective communication.
Examine behaviors amongst team members and team leaders that reflect professionalism and employs organizational integrity for an inspired goal.
Include some of the following concepts: conflict negotiation and resolution, coaching and motivating others, facilitating discussion, cooperation, consensus-building, building team spirit and delegation. Communication skills should be included such as demonstrating the ability to interpret the unspoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others, especially those who may represent diverse backgrounds and very different worldviews.
Use at least three scholarly references, excluding the text. Use APA format. The paper should be approx., 3 pgs., but no less than 2.5 pages. Total points=20
Below are the program learning outcomes and the competencies associated with the assignment.
Corresponding PLOs:
#2 Effectively communicate in all forms of expression to relate facts, simplify complexity, customize, and create persuasive arguments for the target audience to improve organizational function and/or to transform organizational vision for all stakeholders.
#7 Demonstrate leadership excellence through abilities and behaviors, which include establishing a vision and inspiring and supporting others to work towards that shared vision and related goals.
#10 Employ organizational integrity by examining organizational behavior for honesty and fair dealing with all constituencies, including employees and community stakeholders.
#11 Exercise professional behaviors consistent with self-awareness, accountability, continuous learning, and ethical and social responsibility for the greater good.
Corresponding Competencies:
HS1: Apply management theories, approaches, and core functions to routine operations and to current and emerging issues in the health care environment.
HS5: Lead groups of people toward shared visions and goals, from forming a team that possesses balanced capabilities, to setting its mission, values, and norms, and holding team members accountable individually and as a group for results; practice: (a) conflict negotiation and resolution, (b) coaching and motivating others, (c) facilitating discussion, cooperation, (d) consensus-building, (e) building team spirit and (f) delegation.
C1: Demonstrate formal and informal communication using traditional and contemporary modalities to convey messages that are clear and cogent for the target audience, which includes all forms of expression and technology that may be employed to reach the audience.
C2: Demonstrate the ability to accurately hear and understand the unspoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others, especially those who may represent diverse backgrounds and very different worldviews. Levels of proficiency relate to the increasing complexity and depth of understanding, as well as openness to perspectives very different from one’s own.
C3: Make complex ideas or situations clearer, simpler, and/or more understandable (e.g., re-framing the problem, use of analogy); assemble ideas, issues, and observations into a clear and useful explanation; restate existing observations or knowledge in a simpler fashion; translate intricate technical information into terms everyone can understand; “boil down” information.
